James Ryan
@xfoml
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not on twitter anymore
Minneapolis
Joined February 2016
exciting news: I'm now working as the Narrative Systems Lead at @HexagramIO!. my focus here is building systems for emergent narrative, text generation, and conversational interaction, with an emphasis on concepts from my thesis work—namely, massive storyworlds + story sifting.
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for the curious, here's a link to my thesis, "Curating Simulated Storyworlds" (2018):
researchgate.net
PDF | There is a peculiar method in the area of procedural narrative called emergent narrative: instead of automatically inventing stories or deploying... | Find, read and cite all the research you...
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incredible! these photos show two original copies of a 1679 pamphlet presenting a system for Latin poetry generation.
After literally years of writing about this pamphlet, I'm buzzing as I look at two physical copies. Handling them really drives home how cheaply-made they were. Also, these little reader additions! 😍. John Peter's _Artificial Versifying_, both 3rd edn. Photos with permission.
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RT @giannis_daras: DALLE-2 has a secret language. "Apoploe vesrreaitais" means birds. "Contarra ccetnxniams luryca tanniounons" means bug….
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RT @sashastiles: received a gift today that has left me nearly in tears. thank you, @xfoml @aleatorpress, for this absolute treasure — @apa….
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Allison and I have been working on this project for nearly two years—and now it's finally physically realized!.
"Wendit Tnce Inf" is a handmade, letterpress-printed book compiling asemic prose poems that were generated by a suite of generative adversarial networks (GANs) trained by the author, poet Allison Parrish.
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RT @aleatorpress: Our third release, a letterpress small edition, is coming soon! Join our mailing list to hear about it first: https://t.c….
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RT @hillelogram: Post-Postscript: Algol follows the mathematical convention of writing and/or as ⋀/⋁. In ASCII, you write these as /\ and \….
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RT @aleatorpress: "Non-Words" (2017) by @rottytooth . A delightfully handmade zine containing selections from a lexicon of computer-generat….
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RT @aleatorpress: "404" (2020) by ball gag. A computer-generated compendium of fictitious human faces, presented in an unusual material for….
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web3 rhetoric in 1980. "[. ] funds from his own bank account have been automatically withdrawn and then redeposited as royalty or payment in the writer's account. No middle man, no corporate juggling of a profit margin—just free enterprise."
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