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NaNoGenMo
National Novel Generation Month, 2018 edition.
Markov mashup of trail race reports and psychoactive experiences. [Example output](https://github.com/nmifsud/ultra/raw/master/ultra-181129-075926.pdf). [Repo](https://github.com/nmifsud/ultra). Opening sample: > I never stopped to dig some food out of camp as quickly as possible. A...
Her Majesty's Aviary is an ornithologist's guide to the (fictional) seasonally rotating collection of birds held by Empress Yezida the Third, the Radiant, the Dove of Yezid. It was created...
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I'm going to start off with something easyish, and then see what follows. --- First by reproducing some historical procgen shared by [James Ryan](https://twitter.com/xfoml/status/885584010411253761): > extremely early #procgen: Pfizer used...
[Repository](https://github.com/knoxdw/nanogenmo2018), [text](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/knoxdw/nanogenmo2018/master/makeshift.txt), and [pdf](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/knoxdw/nanogenmo2018/master/makeshift.pdf). This work arranges sentences and phrases from historical sources, making use of sentence similarity calculations based on word embeddings provided by the [SpaCy](https://spacy.io/) NLP library in...
I finally got around to reading M. R. James' anthology Ghost Stories of an Antiquarian. While his stories do indeed have the same structure as most of Lovecraft's non-Dreamlands stories...
This book generator is about people, animals and choices.The idea arises from a game of eloquence I did weekly, about thirty years ago, when I practiced with my fellow salesmen...
Develop a new take on the Sherlock Shuffle, using my [POS Tagger that outputs Tracery grammars](https://www.npmjs.com/package/pos2tracery)... and then see what else I can come up with... I really liked combining...
I have a more, what I consider, painterly method in mind. Lots of layers, lots of curation. What I want most is to have the results readable, if not compelling....
This is the classic RNN generator approach. I use the pretrained [ULM-FiT](http://nlp.fast.ai/category/classification.html) model and fine-tune to a corpus of all creepypasta stories. I select the next word randomly weighted by...
