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nickmofo, 2 days ago to random

Our Generation: Programs + Computer-Generated Texts

https://badquar.to/publications/our_generation.html

Bad Quarto, 2024
8.5" × 5.5", color cardstock cover + 24 pp.

Agustin Rosa
@aparrish
@andymakes
@anjchang
Anthony Etherin
Bill Kennedy
Christian Bök
@rottytooth
Darren Wershler
Helen Shewolfe Tseng
Jhave
John Cayley
@jpiringer
@jrcarpenter
@kaviduvvoori
Kyle Booten
@leonardoflores
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
@emenel
Milton Läufer

First page spread with partially visible contributions from Agustin Rosa & Allison Parrish
Title page with all contributors (listed in post)

nickmofo, 16 days ago to random

nickmofo, 1 month ago to random

Coming from the MIT Press October 15 — pre-order now!

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549813/output/

nickmofo, 2 months ago to random

Come work with me at the Center for Digital Narrative in Bergen, Norway! A postdoctoral position in computational narrative systems has just been advertised, application deadline May 21

https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/260371/lead-ai-postdoctoral-research-fellow-position-within-digital-narrative

nickmofo, 3 months ago to random

A post about my poetix, explaining a bit about why I write very tiny computational poems.

https://nickm.com/post/2024/02/poetix/

nickmofo, 4 months ago to random

The deadline for Taper #12 (with a theme of “Tools”) is coming soon: Feb 1!

Computational poets and creative coders, please send us a tiny Web project ( <= 2048 bytes ): tools@badquar.to

The full call for work: https://taper.badquar.to/11/about.html#submit

nickmofo, 4 months ago to random

Please enjoy Memory Slam 2.0, seven text generators from the batch era in my JavaScript and Python reimplementations:

Love Letters
Christopher Strachey, 1953

Stochastic Texts
Theo Lutz, 1959

Random Sentences
Victor H. Yngve, 1961

Five-Word Lines
J. M. Coetzee, early 1960s

Permutation Poems
Brion Gysin & Ian Sommerville, 1960s

The House of Dust
Alison Knowles & James Tenney, 1967

Random Poetry
Michal Murin, 1989

https://nickm.com/memslam/

nickmofo, 5 months ago to random

Taper #11: Parallels is out!

https://taper.badquar.to/11/

It has 25 free (libre) software computational poems, each one tiny — no more than 2KB. Share and enjoy! And, many thanks to the authors and editors.

nickmofo, 6 months ago to random

I don't really remember the advice imparted to me in commencement speeches.

But when I had my diplomas mailed to me, there was some very consistent and useful advice printed on the envelopes.

nickmofo, 6 months ago to random

I’m trying out Tootle as a Mastodon client, not that anything is wrong with a browser for the good old World Wide Web. There’s a white star and a black star you can click on. Other than being a reference to Open-Apple & Closed-Apple, and Mos Def & Talib Kweli, what do these things mean?

yaxu, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

A weird thing about mastodon - there's no hyperlinks.. as in you can't select some text and link it to a URL. This must be an accessibility nightmare for people using screenreaders? and just seems really sad to miss out on this core feature of the web.

nickmofo, 6 months ago to random

My first entry for NaNoGenMo 2023 is Narcissystem.

https://github.com/nickmontfort/Narcissystem

nickmofo, 6 months ago to random

Happy NaNoGenMo!

https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2023

nickmofo, 7 months ago to random

X is, I’m told, an “inverse startup.” That’s a shutdown, right?

nickmofo, 7 months ago to random

Sign for J train being adjusted ... Mysteriously?

nickmofo, 7 months ago to random

The ELIZA team lays out new findings about this classic chatbot, Wednesday Oct 11 4pm-6pm in MIT’s 32-155, free & open to the public

https://cmsw.mit.edu/event/getting-to-know-eliza-chatgpts-great-grandmother/

nickmofo, 8 months ago to random

Today’s question in class: “How many of you have ever seen a dictionary? You know, the book?”

Silence.

nickmofo, 8 months ago to random

HOPS AHEAD opens Sep 21 at MIT! This interactive narrative exhibit is curated & produced by me & Clara Fernandez Vara and features 18 amazing artworks

https://tropetank.com/hops_ahead/

nickmofo, 8 months ago to random

With Rafael Pérez y Pérez, I wrote “Computational Models for Understanding Narrative,“ just published! We discuss symbolic models of narrative and how LLMs, while they are intriguing, are not the same and cannot do the same things.

https://rcl.fcsh.unl.pt/index.php/rcl/article/view/247/199

nickmofo, 8 months ago to random

I’ve been trying to buy a @frameworkcomputer laptop today. I put two of them in my “cart” to compare.

It turns out, there is no way for you yourself to remove an item from your cart. I tried “duplicating” one in case that might let me change the quantity to zero; no, it left me with three computers. One needs to contact support... Which I did five hours ago. No reply yet.

nickmofo, 9 months ago to random

Finally, thanks to this answer from the Chicago Manual of Style, I know how to write this sort of citation properly:

“Text generated by Ouija, Salem, Mass: Parker Brothers, August 30, 2023”

https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Documentation/faq0422.html

nickmofo, 9 months ago to c64

Two #C64 computers set up in Bergen, Norway at the Center for Digital Narrative — feel free to type in that #BASIC program if you like!

C64 with flat panel display running a BASIC program of mine

nickmofo, 9 months ago to random

Amazing DHQ special issue on Critical Code Studies, beginning with a great survey of work in the field so far by Mark Marino & Jeremy Douglass. I highly recommend at least this introduction for those interested to see how the humanistic analysis, and close reading, of source code has led to new insights

https://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/17/2/000713/000713.html

nickmofo, 10 months ago to random

Surely Alphabet acquired X?