Archive for February, 2011
N-gram Text Generators
One of the most parsed and scrutinized bodies of text is the presidential address, so it was the first thing that came to mind to try to replicate with text generation. State of the union addresses use a consistent language that is very intentional, and a vocabulary latent with meaning. Because of the repetition of […]
Social and Psychological Patterns and Side Effects Resulting from the Widespread Use of Mobile Telephony
This is a powerpoint presentation I made about the following articles (linked) on mobility and psychology as I was beginning my research. Audio coming soon. (This is a summary on some of the things I was reading at the time. I picked several articles to limit the length of the presentation.) Adriana de Souza e Silva, […]
Eye Doc
sketches for visual possibilities . . the video link is closest: IMG_0789 Looking Eye – lookingeye.org Looking Eye presents the image that an eye receives and the image it creates. It attempts to explore the difference between the seen and the assumed. The viewer is able to manipulate the eye movement, […]
Stop Tokenizer
Based on the following stop words I tokenized obama’s most recent state of the union. Below is a portion of the results. Stop words: (“a”, “an”, “the”,”and”,”.”,”,”,” “,”because”, “why”,”this”,”is”,”of”,”in”,”if”,”that”,”that’s”,”it”,”then”,”than”,”when”, “we”,”as”,”from”,”to”,”our”,”s”,”have”,”they”,”have”,”?”, “all”,”must”,”who”,”you”,”on”,”for”,”may”,”be”,”/”,”\”\'”,”\””,”get”,”are”,”i”,”am”,”not”, “m”,”make”,”makes”,”for”,”into”,”but”,”can”,”only”,”happen”,”don”,”same”,”against”,”nearly”, “entire”,”sure”, “u”, “!”, “was”, “has”, “its”, “through”, “me”, “his”,”once”,”carry”, “anew”,”‘”, “t”,”let”, “us”, “new”, “before”, “come”,”two”, “one”, “ve”, “go”, “8”, “she”, “her”, “he”,”none”,”at”,”been”,”these”,”what”,”up”,”were”,”them”,”some”,”had”, “their”,”do”,”by”,”or”,”re”,”aren”,”so”,”with”,”will”,”my”,”no”,”there”,”here”,”went”, […]
Art by Telephone and other Ideas from Adriana de Souza e Silva
“Telecommunications-based art is primarily concerned with connecting distant and contiguous spaces.” – Adriana de Souza e Silva Adriana de Souza e Silva gives a brief historical account of telecommunications-based art, highlighting the transition from the original telephone (used as a voice transmission communication device) to mobile phones being used as a bridge between the physical […]
Liu Bolin
Yahoo constantly serves me the most irresistible news about babies and puppies and kidnappings, and now this! Liu Bolin, he’s the one standing by the tractor in the above image. To poorly paraphrase him, his work is about diminishing of humanity amid Chinese economic and cultural development.
Turing’s Computing Machinery and Intelligence and Searle’s Minds, Brains, and Programs
A key part of Turing’s argument is that the perception of the interrogator (who is analogous to any of us) is all that he/we have to determine whether or not the machine is “thinking”, by the test of whether or not it is possible to distinguish a machine from a person. This is a kind […]