@kas@enotty.dk Really interesting, thank you !

In the beginning was the word, and the word was embodied | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/in-the-beginning-was-the-word-and-the-word-was-embodied

GitHub - colinmorris/reddit-dubious-spelling: Analyzing words Redditors aren’t sure how to spell https://github.com/colinmorris/reddit-dubious-spelling

Paper Summary: Enriching Word Vectors with Subword Information https://medium.com/@hyponymous/paper-summary-enriching-word-vectors-with-subword-information-e5263d0848b8

Bad idea of the day: transpose Pretty Hate Machine into a major key, shift every word in the lyrics to the least semantically distant word with a more positive sentiment score, and call the result Pretty Great Machine

A few words on Doug Engelbart http://worrydream.com/Engelbart/

I wonder if the reason why the average quality of writing-advice articles is so much lower than other types is that it’s dominated by folks who are trying to write a certain number of words every day & have decided to publish all of them…

Bad idea of the day: A full performance of Smoke on the Water built by remixing clips of people at Guitar Center failing to perform Smoke on the Water & random words spoken by people in Guitar Center

For #NaNoGenMo I converted two of Stravinsky’s ballets to tone-poems by converting note frequencies to word frequencies. I dare somebody to do a dramatic reading of these; it’ll sound like an Underworld track: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2018/stravinsky.md https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2018/stravinsky_pg.md

Neal Stephenson demonstrated that people will read (and love) infodumps so long as they’re funny or fun to read. In other words: infodumps in fiction are fine so long as the author is also an essayist.

@tx@shroom.party I remember people doing word processing though their spreadsheet program.

Bad idea of the day: turn music into text by substituting note frequency with word frequency

Hot take: weasel words are not a form of obfuscation but a signal about confidence level. Misrepresenting your level of confidence in a proposition is tantamount to lying.

Debunking “OSINT Analysis of the TOR Foundation” and a few words about Tor’s directory authorities https://dustri.org/b/debunking-osint-analysis-of-the-tor-foundation-and-a-few-words-about-tors-directory-authorities.html

Here and there, words and letters are missing from the pages, stolen, or a code, or maybe maybe they snuck off and wrote their own story somewhere

GitHub - ThoughtRiver/lmdb-embeddings: Fast word vectors with little memory usage in Python https://github.com/ThoughtRiver/lmdb-embeddings

Bad idea of the day: replace every word in a book with a sentence in another book that is an anagram of the NATO word-spelling of it

I just used the word “Kludge” and no one in the office knew what I was talking about.

Bad idea of the day: automatically replace words with synonyms that have more phoneme sequences in common with the previous word (post-processing)

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

an autoiconic language of words that are only themselves, spoken not because it ‘means’ anything but because it’s a joy to have on the tongue

Hot take: Everybody whose handle is the word ‘Real’ followed by a name is DEFINITELY a fake/parody account. Fite me.

Provided one can catch up, generation ships are an anthropologist’s treasure trove: Some are past societies preserved in amber, others are, for lack of a better word, highly fermented, have been invaded by aliens or entered some weird new symbiosis with stowaway mushrooms

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/

Seers are reverse wizards, their words are caused by future events instead of the other way round

Pay for Your Words | Peter Pomerantsev | Granta Magazine https://granta.com/pay-for-your-words/

BBC - Culture - Twenty-six words we don’t 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/

It is written here that the ancients wrote their books in hyper-ink on pages of spidersilk that they assembled into webs. One word of this ink, my friend, could contain a book, but sadly, most of their works fell victim to inkrot

a language old enough to have a chromosomal eve - one word from which all other still-extant words have mutated

And still, she walks besides you but as outline now - dirt on a wall and gaps between cars, wind in grass and cloud formations, stray words from other conversations that somehow form sentences

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’

Lurking in an orbit hidden between our satellites, the alien quietly watches, extremely interested yet content to never exchange a word with us

Now, as you all know from Ouroboros theory 101, the unknot ouroboros is really stable. Why is that? Well, look at that word: Un-knot equals not-not equals truth - it’s self-grounding! In fact, it’s kind of a pest. However, with most other knots

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/

New repository: aquilax/bg-words-dict - Списък с думи на български език.

Leah’s PhD: Working with Word Clouds – Leah Henrickson https://bhilluminated.wordpress.com/2017/07/18/word-clouds/

New repository: aquilax/wordgame - Word Game search library

Word embeddings in 2017: Trends and future directions http://ruder.io/word-embeddings-2017/

Etched into maternity ward doors in spectral runes, the words “memento nasci” are meant to remind ghosts of birth and their own finity

"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

I like to imagine that when people repeat letters in txtspk, their voice is being sampled to say the same word over and over again

Modeled after humans a little too closely, in the end the words that doom humanity are a lovesick AI’s “If I can’t have you, nobody will”

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/

Gods talk in worlds to convey meaning, not words. Pilgrims will travel them in sequence in the hope of understanding maybe one sentence

What Even Is a Word? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu3eDf4p0r0

however, these are hard to talk to, they refuse to use words and will instead wander over your screen in murmurations of pixels

TBD: Use the word “clusterfuck” at least twice as much as I already do.

idea addressed networking, a paradigm under which packets reach their destinations through social network shares and word-of-mouth

his words solidify and drift to the floor where they crack open and grow into flowers, fire-colored moss, pebble nymphs and bonsai thickets

the word syzygy describes itself and whoever smuggled that into the english language deserves a medal

@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx Hard to type and remember and to add insult to injury a dictionary word… mhhh… :)

@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx Hard to type and remember and to add insult to injury a dictionary word… mhhh… :)

one german word which doesn’t have a good translation (see its root word) https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/841732332449067012/photo/1

because words like “sublime” lose their strength after the 12th last.fm comment in a row

https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27025↵totally agree we need more words for happiness/pleasure and ways of things being nice https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/841729902055419905/photo/1

She takes off her glasses and eyes, places them on the desk, the sockets focus on you↵”In your own words now, why do you deserve a raise”

Programmers have dozens of words for mistake: error, bug, glitch, crash, race, null deref, panic, hang, deadlock, exception, programming,

clap emoji text but with silence between the words

“Time is a river and some of us can afford to pay the ferryman” are the last words he hears before the building collapses around him.

The library is burning. Words, now birds, soar through the night on wings of fire.↵↵RIP what.cd, you meant so much to me.

And on the pedestal, these words appear: “Made in China

Drink the night from my hands, speak with its voice. Wrap your words in cloaks of darkness, or make them rustle like leaves.

Hoping to tame it, you put the dragon in a cage of words. But it infuses them with fire and they fly like shrapnel through all your spells.

mind virus: words only, needs a host brain↵mind bacterium: tiny self-sufficient mind, can infect brains but is perfectly happy to eat books

magic is reverse memory: action comes from words

“Live by the word, die by the word” - Inscription on the magical criminal court’s gate

What if there’s a rich existing toolset to deal with words that have power, right in front of us?↵What if magical thinking is actually good?

the rainbow has gained an additional black, deep and brilliant, the thunder seems to be forming words, the wind feels like searching hands

Ghostfire rages in the library, leaves paper untouched but consumes all the words. They light up, utter themselves, vanish from the page,

I found a word for this (and “spoiling a joke through explanation”), but the etymology only works in German:↵zerklären (zerstören+erklären)

The ASCIImo have 128 words for ‘character’.

An immortal’s vocabulary is usually extremely broad. Each guards libraries worth of words, describing landscapes that have died before them.

A tale of elsewhere so compelling, the words themselves pack up and leave, wander from mouth to mouth to find the place they sing of

world words, holographic carriers of meaning from which you can reconstruct the entire book, language, society, universe

the mosquitoes here penetrate skulls to suck ideas↵if you swat one, it’ll leave an ink-black smear of words and images on your palm

KnowYourMeme and their ilk are the butterfly collectors of memes: pin them down with words and leave them well defined, sterile and unmoving

Mythologos:↵(n) appeal to narrative↵(n) appeal of narrative↵(n) the Word as told↵(n) narrative principle underlying history and future

Words fall to the ground behind you as you speak, every night the sidewalks are full of words and every morning, street sweepers clean up

A parasitic word jumps from sentence to sentence, disguising as other words and taking ｔｈｅｉｒ place, feeding off meaning meant for others.

The stroke stole all his words but the stories still burn in his mind. He now cooks them, talks in spices to people his subtlety is lost on.