Bad idea of the day: an anthology of human-selected machine-generated fiction and poetry from various codebases, with introductions explaining the generation method, selected on the same lines as a literary anthology
Hot take: the big problem in generative art is not that computers aren’t creative but that computers don’t have taste. We’ve solved that problem by building taste into the mechanisms of generation instead of building filters.
Fiction generator post-mortem: comic book generation https://medium.com/@/fiction-generator-post-mortem-comic-book-generation-9df847dd4ada
Thread by @colmmacc: “Have you ever needed to generate a random number in code? whether it’s for rolling a dice, or shuffling a set, this tweet thread is here for […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1012719876706840578.html
Making Interactive Fiction: Using Generative Prose - sub-Q Magazine https://sub-q.com/making-interactive-fiction-using-generative-prose/
Re: generalism vs specialism & polymathy – BREADTH IS DEPTH because knowledge is a web, not a tree. It only looks like a tree if you SPECIALIZE.
Generative Artistry https://generativeartistry.com/
Survivorship bias spicy take: if someone is successful enough to be notable for their success, they are rare enough that no lessons from their experience apply generally enough to make someone else successful beyond the 50% mark.
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This Twitter Bot Is Generating Jokes and It’s Funnier Than You - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5kmzy/headlinetron-comedy-twitter-bot
This Twitter Bot Is Generating Jokes and It‘s Funnier Than You - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5kmzy/headlinetron-comedy-twitter-bot
A really interesting composable UI project designed for generative art: https://lobste.rs/s/9ezxcf/hyperlook_nee_hypernews_nee_goodnews#c_rva21l
Ask An Ice Cream Professional: AI-generated ice cream flavors https://kottke.org/18/05/ask-an-ice-cream-professional-ai-generated-ice-cream-flavors
Bad idea of the day: run podcast transcripts through char-rnn and then through the duplex speech synthesizer to generate hours of nonsense indistinguishable from NPR
I’m not gonna lie; I would listen to all of @derkirche’s NN-generated podcasts: https://pastebin.com/raw/NzdfAbvP
Full-body high-resolution Anime Generation with Progressive Structure-conditional Generative Adversarial Networks | DeNA Co., Ltd. http://dena.com/intl/anime-generation/
Making Interactive Fiction: Using Generative Prose - sub-Q Magazine https://sub-q.com/making-interactive-fiction-using-generative-prose/
all my favorite movies are beautiful clusterfucks because a dysfunctional game of telephone with people who don’t share a common language is the most reliable way to generate creativity
General Magic is a film about the â90s startup that imagined the smartphone - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/22/17233362/general-magic-movie-review-documentary-silicon-valley-tribeca-2018
Thread by @ptychomancer: “I love maps & their promise of fractal discovery. I love procedural generation and the aesthetics of the unauthored. Where do these two [â¦]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/980968298002006016.html
Procedural Worlds from Simple Tiles http://ijdykeman.github.io/ml/2017/10/12/wang-tile-procedural-generation.html
Botnik - Live Procedurally Generated Comedy - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IujSOW1OMWk
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‘Fifth Generation’ Became Japan’s Lost Generation - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/05/business/fifth-generation-became-japan-s-lost-generation.html
#nanogenmo idea: Create a pantheon with thematic names, modeled on sumerian, & sumerian-style myths around them. Ex., a god of water could be called Ena or Nina (since ‘a’ means water, & ‘en’ & ‘nin’ are prefixes for god names) & have hundreds of generated epithets based on domain
Bad idea of the day: A bot that generates not surrealistic and impossible recipes but merely strange Futurist Cookbook style recipes you could actually cook.
Practical Procedural Generation for Everyone - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumyfLEa6bU
Benjamin Kovach https://www.kovach.me/posts/2018-03-07-generating-art.html
History generation in Epitaph | Affording Play https://mkremins.github.io/blog/history-generation-epitaph
What an ‘infinite’ AI-generat… https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/11/17099578/ai-generated-podcast-procedural-storytelling-art-sheldon-county
Bad idea of the day: bibliomancy by generating random sentences in toki pona
Letting neural networks be weird • The n… http://aiweirdness.com/post/159302925452/the-neural-network-generated-pickup-lines-that-are
Bad idea of the day: Feed all those KMart recordings into sample-rnn and generate infinite automatic mallsoft
A general purpose counting filter: making e… https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/08/08/a-general-purpose-counting-filter-making-every-bit-count/
A list of 4510 different titles given to the exact same generic 9:59 self-affirmation pep-talk on Spotify http://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=458
It’s not that computers are awful on some general axis, but that we spend more effort than necessary getting less out of them than we easily could out of myopia, greed, and laziness.
GitHub - mewo2/ketchum: Use word vectors to interactively generate lists of similar words https://github.com/mewo2/ketchum
#nanogenmo idea: a database of loosely-related epigrams or paragraphs, tagged by topic; going to a topic displays the associated epigrams in arbitrary order. the tags are generated from analysis of the text.
IRDC 2017 - Tom Ford, Narrative Dungeon Generation - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ea57XERywM
Web application design is like a generation of people looked at that text adventure written in postscript and said LETS WRITE ALL FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS IN POSTSCRIPT EMBEDDED IN SELF-MODIFYING LATEX DOCUMENTS FOREVER
HTML is a mistake. Generating HTML is a bigger mistake. Generating HTML at runtime as a display layer for interactive applications is the basis for modern UIs & I want to cry
Emic Automata & Thematic Automata | Storyboard | maetl https://maetl.net/notes/storyboard/generative-writing-with-cellular-automata
Why I love National Novel Generation Month – Liza Daly – Medium https://medium.com/@liza/why-i-love-national-novel-generation-month-b8f6e58c6422
Every Novel Generator · Issue #120 · NaNoGenMo/2017 · GitHub https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2017/issues/120
How Generative Music Works https://teropa.info/loop/
Humans Prefer Computer-Generated Paintings to Those at Art Basel https://hyperallergic.com/391059/humans-prefer-computer-generated-paintings-to-those-at-art-basel/
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org I could probably put something together, but I went this route originally because existing generators felt like they took too much control from me over the exact output. I want very small, static pages I can throw behind nginx, and I want to know exactly what the contents are. My current mess of spaghetti Racket is getting hairy since I’m halfway through an unfinished rewrite I started a while ago and forgot about, but at least I know exactly what it’s doing.
I’m trying to decide whether soldiering on with the messy codebase of my homegrown site generator is worth it or if I should redo my site in a more established tool.
Error 401 (Unauthorized)!!1 https://books.google.nl/books?hl=nl&lr=&id=KnVBTk-hS10C&oi=fnd&pg=PA234&dq=Universe+text+generation+soap+opera&ots=XPAcJYIJhb&sig=6dGDx-TQn248kbUueUjmZ58XbbI#v=onepage&q&f=false