Notices by ZS (logicaldash@mastodon.babycastles.com)

Here's @aparrish

compasses (short version)

Generated using the phonetic vectors originally made for her earlier anthology Articulations, but now she's generating words that do not exist, like Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven's dada poetry

Involves a neural network with four RNNs

Means you can give it random sequences of characters and get a pronunciation, or adding noise to real words to get similar sounding nonsense words
#wordHack

At https://thesaurus.ml you can look up words that are characteristic of particular writers or publications

When science publications talk about failure, it means the same as an attempt

Dickens might doubt instead of failing

#wordHack

There's a thing where he messed around with the GPT2 model from OpenAI

There's too much to write it up on my phone, I'll get it later

#wordHack

https://jennchat.glitch.me restricts you to three words: cool, nice, and siiick. If you want to make a platform but don't want to moderate it, this is how you do it

Immediately someone typed "nice" exactly 69 times

#wordHack

This is configurable with sliders, so it's easy to, say, rewrite the first chapter of Genesis to make it sound like the pastor has a cold

You can put in random letters and get back plausible english words, get the word phonetically between two others: jabberwock -> bannershank -> bandersnatch #wordHack

Next is Allison Parrish @aparrish

Manipulating phonology and orthography. And evaluating those manipulations

Uses a neural net to muck with words, turning them from text to sound and back again, to play with the way we represent variant pronunciation, especially when it's silly like "ermahgerd"

Example:
hallo #wordhack opin projectar

Showing off project for NaNoGenMo 2017, "The Average Novel"

Grabbed a bunch of Project Gutenberg text and blurred them together

There's a way of vectorizing words into numbers, coded by their meaning. So @aparrish averaged all those

It's really very repetitive

"and and and and and and and and the the the hill like and and and"

@aparrish is actually reading this aloud to us

"Hafnium ace high the epilogue" and that is the novel

#wordhack