Bad idea of the day: ‘twitch writes a novel’: the previous ~15 words are shown & the top ~20 next words based on a markov model of some corpus are voted on over a 2 minute period (going to the first item, if no votes are cast) until 50k words are written.
Feel Good Inc but every word is reversed, yet the melody is still the same - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi5-yi-q2Cs
Hot take: Everybody whose handle is the word ‘Real’ followed by a name is DEFINITELY a fake/parody account. Fite me.
Bad idea of the day: Get Annals of the Perrigues style themed corpora type output in your templates by adjusting probabilities by the semantic distance between a choice & some word that is the locus of a theme, with word2vec or something
Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: WordStar: A Writer’s Word Processor https://www.sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm
Bad idea of the day: treating asemic combinations of dictionary words as an aesthetic to be appropriated by commerce, and appropriating it with commerce, thus making attempts to identify dictionary-based chaffing techniques lossier
Bad idea of the day: creating ads that target asemic combinations of dictionary words order to identify people who use dictionary-based chaffing techniques
Bad idea of the day: running a script that speaks random words aloud all day while you leave your phone at home, in order to chaff your audio-surveillance-based ad targeting
A few words on Doug Engelbart http://worrydream.com/Engelbart/
This Man Committed Paradise Lost to Memory for Mental Exercise http://nautil.us/blog/-this-man-memorized-a-60000_word-poem-using-deep-encoding
Bad idea of the day: Replace each word with another with maximum delta in word vector space but minimum edit distance, or vice versa. Tune weights until result is interesting.
Band name of the day: the words of conjunction
On word embeddings - Part 1 http://ruder.io/word-embeddings-1/
Pay for Your Words | Peter Pomerantsev | Granta Magazine https://granta.com/pay-for-your-words/
BBC - Culture - Twenty-six words we donât want to lose http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171122-twenty-six-words-we-dont-want-to-lose
Understanding word vectors: A tutorial for "Reading and Writing El… https://gist.github.com/aparrish/2f562e3737544cf29aaf1af30362f469
Sniglet History: The Art of Invented Words https://tedium.co/2018/03/01/sniglet-history-rich-hall/
Bad idea of the day: an extension that renders every word in a font chosen based on the hash of that word
Bad idea of the day: an extension that runs term extraction on whatever web page you’re viewing and then increases the size and contrast of words based on their computed importance ranking
Bad idea of the day: set your voice assistant’s wake word to ‘OK computer’
GitHub - mewo2/ketchum: Use word vectors to interactively generate lists of similar words https://github.com/mewo2/ketchum
Describing Words - Find Adjectives to Describe Things http://describingwords.io/for/adjective
Describing Words - Find Adjectives to Describe Things http://describingwords.io/
Leah’s PhD: Working with Word Clouds – Leah Henrickson https://bhilluminated.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/word-clouds/
Word embeddings in 2017: Trends and future directions http://ruder.io/word-embeddings-2017/
"Experimental Creative Writing with the Vectorized Word" by Allison Parrish - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3D0JEA1Jdc
How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God http://splinternews.com/how-fossil-fuel-money-made-climate-denial-the-word-of-g-1797466298?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Word Vectors and SAT Analogies http://planspace.org/20170705-word_vectors_and_sat_analogies/
Fighting Words | Laurie Penny https://thebaffler.com/war-of-nerves/fighting-words
Ghost word - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_word
Words Have Discovered How to Make Love: 3 Poems by Surrealist Masters | Literary Hub http://lithub.com/words-have-discovered-how-to-make-love-3-poems-by-surrealist-masters/
What Even Is a Word? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu3eDf4p0r0
TBD: Use the word “clusterfuck” at least twice as much as I already do.