Mike Lynch @mikelynch@mastodon.social
Coder and writer, analyst at the University of Technology Sydney. Contains syntactically significant whitespace. http://pronoun.is/he http://mikelynch.org/
Maintaining a toehold at this instance because I've got links to it, but I'm spending most of my Mastodon time at icosahedron.website these days: @mikelynch
A quick blog post about my #NaNoGenMo 2017 project, Formations: https://mikelynch.org/2017/Dec/04/formations/
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The Dark Knight (2008) is technically a Christmas movie because of the scene where the Batmobile lost a wheel and the Joker got away
Maintaining a toehold at this instance because I've got links to it, but I'm spending most of my Mastodon time at icosahedron.website these days: @mikelynch
SENSE: a belief that you are distinguished from subject or activity
I've added a few notes on my #NaNoGenMo entry this year, a parody of abstract descriptive writing which I hacked up on my home-backed Haskell text generator https://github.com/spikelynch/formations
ROAD TRACK: a railway car that is served and a small structure and a sloping board; used to stiffen the windshield when the ball is produced by the shape of a ship
LACROSS CRIMINAL INHABITANT: a river in the United States before the American forces used to adhere the development of the millennium to the party to the south
CHILD: a mistaken to a particular chromosome and the activities of a paternal ancestor
roses are red
violets are blue
in surveillance capitalism
poem reads you
and shows you ads
for flower shops
and tracks your clicks
and never stops
it cares not about
if privacy's harmed
the money is green
when people are farmed
twitter is cyan
facebook is blue
your friends are the product
and so are you
Cleaned up the output from Formations. Still needs some work on the event loop for when the object list runs empty (this should be the trigger for a new chapter)
https://github.com/spikelynch/formations/blob/master/output/sample_3.md
Having been back on the birdsite this week, what I really noticed was how much content is stuff people disagree with: my little corner of it feels like a hatereader's club.
Fly brain inspires computing algorithm http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6364/793
"Flies use an algorithmic neuronal strategy to sense and categorize odors."¹
²"a fly categorizes smells by k-hot encoding odor in (normalized) 50 dimensional smell space, expanding (!) into a 2k latent space, and then finding nearest neighbors. and as a finale, authors simulate a fly smelling word vectors and MNIST pixels"
¹http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6364/793
²https://twitter.com/dribnet/status/931830521843236864
Some very Serafinius-like apparitions from the @neuralgae engine
#NaNoGenMo warming up exercises for Formations
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This music video by Wednesday Campanella looks like it was shot in the novovacuum of Greg Egan's novel Schild's Ladder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdEO6-Xv3O4
The expansion of geology's domain of study to regions above the surface of the Earth consisted of a process which was both gradual and revolutionary.
boost this toot if yr grateful for animals
