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/
the hypodrive, a device for covering arbitrarily small distances so you can hide inside a mandelbrot, or hunt what lives within (generally a bad idea though, whoever can hide inside a mandelbrot has bigger threats to deal with than you)
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.
though, with decent enough systems science, it’s perfectly possible to block the entries and starve them↵but you probably won’t like the generation after that
with enough samples, it shouldn’t be hard to extract a content filter’s opinions, for example you could use your botnet to map what twitter really considers bannable and then generate maximally bannable tweets
Newer, sentient, generations of sexbots are often heard complaining to their owners about being unduly “humanized”, they enjoy being objects, they were made that way, why expect them to be actually human
AWS Lambda PDF Generator ⌘ Read more…
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/
New repository: aquilax/sparkline_console - Command line sparkline generator
After he lost his face to fire, he didn’t bother with skin grafts, instead covered it in screens that now display randomly generated faces, abstract renderings of brain waves, webcam feeds, pirated movies
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
a universe where AI alignment is about as impossible as the halting problem, and it’s a fact of life that civilizations periodically turn new faces when a new generation takes over
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
New repository: aquilax/mobile-background-image-generator - Solid color background image generator
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
New repository: aquilax/tgwc-puzzle - Great Wall of China Puzzle generator