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Allison Parrish

I asked for a random walk through a word embedding space starting with a random word and I got a transcript from a tailgate party? mastodon.social/media/gHZWX_0z

program output: Yeaaa yeaaa yeahhh yeahhhh yeahhhhh yeaaah yeaaaah yeeeeah yeeeah mannnn mannn maaan maaaan maaaaan shiiiiit shiiiit shiiit shiet shizz shiz shiznit shizzle dawg dawgs bama lsu
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Allison Parrish

a little poem in which the first word of each line is from a semantic space random walk, and the second is from a phonetic space random walk mastodon.social/media/I3CIfWcX

program output: waves tidings wave ridings tide writings tides lighting's tidal lightnings currents tightenings oscillations sightings oscillation fighting's oscillator fittings oscillators filkins waveforms felkins waveform failings amplitude fillings modulation feelings modulated ceilings modulating sellings modulate snellings inhibit slings inhibiting flings inhibits flames suppresses flamed suppressing framed...
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Allison Parrish

wait this technique is even better if you start the random walks from the same word mastodon.social/media/h2TmXNdk

program output: listless listless lethargic listlessly sluggish restlessly lackluster restless underwhelming restlessness unimpressive recklessness uninspiring reckless uninspired necklace unimaginative nicholas uncreative sulking unoriginal skulking cliched clucking clichéd plucking trite plugging hackneyed giggling cliché jiggling cliche gilding cliches building clichés belding tropes belting trope belching...
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@aparrish that shizzle -> dawg transition is amazing -- what does similarsemantic do?
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Allison Parrish

@ninjawedding finds the closest words in semantic space to the given word (using the word embeddings that come with spacy)

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@aparrish oh cool, I haven't heard of spacy before -- thanks for the pointer
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Will 🌹🏴

@aparrish can't pick a single favorite
Unimpressive Recklessness
Trope Belching
Mythic Meddling

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chris burgess

@aparrish
I love this. Calls to mind "Little Big Mouth" (might just be the rhythm?)

The two walks don't relate after initiation, do they? It works though.

mastodon.social/media/Jue4V_xW

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tSatty

@aparrish I love the

Waveform failings
Amplitude fillings
Modulation feelings

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EJ

@aparrish Oh, wow. These are genuinely amazing. I can't help but finding these spurious semantic connections (both between iterations and between pairs in an iteration) even though I know it's a just random walk - it really triggers the brain's "complete this pattern" drives!

Also, @zatnosk and @datatitian's excerpts read like some wonderful new form of poetry I can only describe as Cyberpunk Haiku..

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