The Dwarf Generator Act One makes surprisingly good christmas music!

Agreed on “aggressive” — as a general rule, I don’t think most folks are acting like we’re in the kind of crisis we are.

fake english word generation for Go and CLI: [[https://github.com/nwtgck/go-fakelish]] #links

@adi@f.adi.onl Ugh sorry for not replying. If the file list is dynamic, usually you use something like autoconf to generate the Makefile. I’ve also used wildcards in the past and that works okay. You should be able to use shell commands to populate the file list.

Third generation of AirPods. So, new AirPods. Read more at Apple. 😂

Apple’s event on Monday is bringing, as always, speculation to the table. One thing most outlets seem to agree is the introduction of an “M1X” chip, thought Apple might call it differently. M1X might also mean, M1(we don’t know what comes after, or next generation). Either way, I would really like to see the return of the 27” iMac, but I will not hold my breath. Nevertheless, Monday is going to be an exciting day for many, including me! 🍎

Everybody is building one because, you know, why not? Why I built my own static site generator.

Test to generate more logging.

new algo in #sndkit @!(sndkitref “sparse”)!@ is a sparse noise generator, similar to velvet noise, that produces a random series of impulses at a specified rate in Hz.

rational people can use very irrational people as babble generators in conversations, if the rational people are high prune (which they usually are).

added a !projects page. it’s dynamically generated :)

First pass at sticking my twtxt in a web page. It’s not escaping all the html properly, and generally needs work, but it’s a start: http://a.9srv.net/tw/following.html

Whether to invest in stocks is moral tracks with whether general economic growth is moral.

2x3: {lives in social/physical reality}×{views things generally as positive/zero/negative sum}. To be honest, I think there’s relatively few people in social positive sum reality frames.

the ‘magic circle’ sine wave algorithm: [[https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/pasp/Digital_Sinusoid_Generators.html]] #links

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk “A good read: Why I find longtermism hard – […]” -> Interesting! I don’t particularly share that emotional intuition (although my bias probably cuts the other way: I am more moved by interesting projects, and more interesting problems probably also less neglected)–I generally find most problems other people find salient not very moving at all (although probably equally strongly moved by extremely near suffering compared to other people, but with a stronger emotional distance discount). EA makes sense in a very different way to me (phenomenologically, probably closest to philosophical high valence states it evokes).

new algorithm in @!(ref “sndkit”)!@: @!(sndkitref “phasor”)!@ generates a normalized periodic ramp signal, typically used for table-lookup oscillators.

Mirroring my private sites on the IPFS network. Generating my static site using 11ty

a dynamically generated page for food recipes: !food

Tactic: Salty chips (Salty chips that make you buy water as a general pattern).

“Everyone who had serious philosophical conundra on that subject just, you know, died, a generation before. The Bitchun Society didn’t need to convert its detractors, just outlive them.”

@prologic@twtxt.net Ok.. so using NaCL boxes. yeah its just a combo of using secretbox with a generated key/nonce. and then using the pubkey box to encrypt the key/nonce for each device.

@prologic@twtxt.net sender generates an AES key encrypts message. gets the device list for user and encrypts key for each device. sends the encryptedkeys+cypertext.

@prologic@twtxt.net for encryption. we can have browser/app generate ec25519 keypair. store the private on device and add pub to list of devices for the user on pod.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/12/12/17-state-attorney-generals-100-congressmembers-and-the-association-for-psychological-science-walk-into-a-bar/

with some scripting, I could probably use my upcoming !weewiki !zettelkasten as a drop-in replacement for !twtxt, and then generate the twtxt file. however, I think I am going to keep them separate for the time being. let them both grow to serve different purposes.

finally finished all the initial ugen documentation. everything now has a sentence or two. the generated page can be accessed from the ugen wiki page [[/proj/monolith/wiki/ugens]] #updates #monolith

I’m hoping to build a phasor-to-clock signal generator, which divides up a phasor into an arbitrary number of ticks. Using a global phasor as a global clock would allow for interesting polyrhythms, as well more flexible precision in sequencers. It’s also closer to how human-based conducting works. #halfbakedideas

the fe language by rxi would make for a great frontend for generating txtvm code maybe #halfbakedideas

This morning I had this really weird notion of building a generative podcast complete with musical interludes and asemic speech using a speech synthesizer. It’d be interesting to have “interviews” with two distinct vocal characters. #halfbakedideas

asemic script done in contextfreeart: [[https://www.contextfreeart.org/gallery/view.php?id=945]] #links #generative #asemic #graphics

generative bad handwriting: [[https://avinayak.github.io/programming/art/2020/09/18/p5-strokes.html]] #links #generative #asemic #graphics

randoma11y is a color generator that generates two colors and scores them using WCAG system for accessibility: [[https://randoma11y.com/]] #links #color

automatically generated #TeX equations implemented in !sndkit

@!(sndkitref “bitnoise”)!@ is a 1-bit noise generator. #sndkit #NES #1bit

thinking about implementing some noise generators for !sndkit. A chaos noise generator that leverages numerical instabilities in IEEE floating point, and a 1-bit linear feedback shift register noise generator based on NES audio. #sndkit #halfbakedideas #dsp

It turns out that fts5 is enabled by default on SQLite! My twtxt2sqlite generator has been updated to use fts5. Now I can do full text search on all my twtxt tweets. I have implemented a related-tweets box in the !twtxt_playground as a proof-of-concept. More info on fts5 can be found at [[https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html]].

Inline Janet means I should be able to make calls to functions defined in the config file. For example, the =ref= function is how I usually make wiki reference links. This @!(ref “wiki_index” “link right here”)!@ should take you to my automatically generated weewiki index of all the wiki pages.

statically generated my twtxt feed here: https://pbat.ch/wiki/twtxt.html. learning how to be social on this thing comes next.

testing out auto-generation of twtxt wiki page now

Dear lazyweb: what kind of electrical plugs would a house built in japan in 1939 have, assuming it was built out in the sticks? Would newly-built houses in the country generally be electrified at that time?

Grether Archive https://themanofstone.com/random/science_fiction_generator

RANDU: A truly horrible random number generator https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/04/14/randu/

The History of Text Generation | http://mathesonmarcault.com/index.php/2015/12/15/randomly-generated-title-goes-here/

Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/14/gwerns-ai-generated-poetry/

Never mistake your inability to richly imagine the outgroup for an actual general consensus among them. No matter how wrong they might be about the things they agree on, they define themselves by their minor internal schisms.

Band name of the day: generally regarded as sludge

GitHub - pcyin/tranX: A general-purpose neural semantic parser for mapping natural language queries into machine executable code https://github.com/pcyin/tranX

A random dungeon generator that fits on a business card · GitHub https://gist.github.com/munificent/b1bcd969063da3e6c298be070a22b604

Wikidata Card Game Generator https://cardgame.morr.cc

glass.leaves: text manipulator and generator https://glassleaves.herokuapp.com/

GitHub - joke2k/faker: Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you. https://github.com/joke2k/faker

Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences | Otium https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2019/02/25/humans-who-are-not-concentrating-are-not-general-intelligences/

Has anybody digitized the tapes used in first-generation melotrons?

GitHub - JoYoungjoo/SC-FEGAN: SC-FEGAN : Face Editing Generative Adversarial Network with User’s Sketch and Color https://github.com/JoYoungjoo/SC-FEGAN

GPT-2 As Step Toward General Intelligence | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/19/gpt-2-as-step-toward-general-intelligence/

Who the fuck decided to call it The Moon is a Harsh Mistress instead of Fourth Generation Warfare With Fourth Generation Languages

Bad idea of the day: Do a free machine-generated text class at a library (using tracery or something), self-publish the course materials as a book (with proceeds going to the library as donations), & get a couple copies for the stacks.

It looks like OpenAI has announced their marginal progress on the coherence problem in narrative prose generation in the most clickbaity possible way again: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47249163 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/14/elon-musk-backed-ai-writes-convincing-news-fiction

Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by replacing your wardrobe with loose jumpsuits printed with hundreds of GAN-generated faces.

Understanding Generic Cell Rate Limiting - cat /dev/brain https://blog.ian.stapletoncordasco.com/2018/12/understanding-generic-cell-rate-limiting.html

Hume is the amiable, modest, generous philosopher we need today | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/hume-is-the-amiable-modest-generous-philosopher-we-need-today

I’d love to see Trigger do a Geobreeders series. The premise had so much potential: a multi-generational war between chuunibyos with computer sigils and shape-shifting cats made of radio waves who live on the internet.

The Unlikely New Generation of Unabomber Acolytes http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/the-unabomber-ted-kaczynski-new-generation-of-acolytes.html

Generated Book Gallery – 60212: INTERACTIVITY & COMPUTATION http://cmuems.com/2018/60212f/deliverables/7-due-11-16/generated-book-gallery/

Fairly reliable indicator of a bad/naive post or project: the title or short description contains the name of the implementation language, but that language is conventional, commonly-used, or ‘general-purpose’.

The History of the GNU General Public License http://www.free-soft.org/gpl_history/

Bad idea of the day: a self-adhesive battery-powered white noise generator & speaker, which can be affixed to the microphone on your laptop

Protocol | An ASCII Header Generator for Network Protocols http://www.luismg.com/protocol/

Tarot Based Narrative Generation - Anne Sullivan [PROCJAM 2018] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1D-r5TF36A

Mailbag: AI Research on Dialogue and Story Generation | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/10/16/mailbag-ai-research-on-dialogue-and-story-generation/

Bad idea of the day: An algorithm that creates textual descriptions of images watches TV, creating a description from each frame, which is then used to generate a new image & the video is resynthesized

“A Box of Chaos: The Generative Artist’s Toolkit” by Benjamin Kovach - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZNTozzsNqk

Intro to Generative Art - DEV Community ‘‍”‍’ https://dev.to/aspittel/intro-to-generative-art-2hi7

“Generating Music From Emotion (and other experiments)” by Hannah Davis - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpiN2DZxU_4

Preliminary Poetics of Procedural Generation in Games by @ikarth http://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/DIGRA_2018_paper_166.pdf

Emic Automata & Thematic Automata | maetl https://maetl.net/notes/storyboard/generative-writing-with-cellular-automata

You’d think that somebody writing for NME would know that ‘Daddy’s Car’ isn’t the first AI-written song. (Even if the earliest example they can think of is from Songsmith & they don’t recognize that Bach was doing generative music.)

Kinda okay generated text https://blog.ftql.pw/posts/random-text/

On Generative Algorithms: Introduction · inconvergent https://inconvergent.net/generative/

Piet Mondrian | Generative Artistry https://generativeartistry.com/tutorials/piet-mondrian/

@kas@enotty.dk the only thing I can think is that people are finally re-figuring out that static sites are really fast because the content doesn’t need to generated on the fly. I noticed there were a lot of static content generators out there.

Generative Art Finds Its Prodigy “ Artnome https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/8/8/generative-art-finds-its-prodigy

Why Love Generative Art? “ Artnome https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/8/8/why-love-generative-art

CASTLE FREAK - Remote Residency for Generative Literature | inside the castle http://www.insidethecastle.org/castle-freak/

Almost every coverage of NaNoGenMo is spun around commercial applications of prose-generating tech or the lack thereof, but nobody involved (AFAIK) sees it as a business venture. They just want to do quantitative experiments on literature.

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.

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