Hi, my name is Lesia and I'm working on my interdisciplinary PhD in Web Science at the University of Southampton. I'm researching creative text generation, with a focus on generated novels.
I first came across CCS while researching for my BA thesis, and I was incredibly excited to find that it enabled me to bring together my fascination with dead/legacy programming languages, linguistics, the history of AI and computing, literature, and culture. And further, that a CCS approach can support my interest in investigating one area with the theoretical frameworks and tools from another.
Looking forward to digging into the discussions here!
But even beyond that, why search at all? This calls to mind the whole global optimization fiasco, where eventually it was proven that over all data sets, no algorithm is better than any other, including a random walk. But that's what's interesting. …
One of the fascinating things about the writeup by Yerkes (p88-99) is that it documents both the many attempts made by Julius and a brief comparison test done on a 3-year old human child (who failed to reach the bananas). It makes fascinating readin…
Perhaps a monkey in a contained environment makes a good protagonist for box-world type parsing, like the robot in SHRDLU.
Thanks @Temkin! I was hoping to find a list of microworlds to see if any remind me of animal experimentation, but I ha…
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To respond to @zachwhalen and agree with @jeremydouglass, when I think of a travesty generator I do associate it with an over-the-top, outrageous performance. And I think this sits very comfortably with the 'fake research paper' genre which seems to…
@joncorbett This is wonderful! It's a powerful and important statement to focus on storytelling right from the beginning, rather than simply on calculation and logic. I also find it interesting to hear that Cree# is part of a larger language revital…
I'm not sure what on line 24 does, but I like how it reflects a programmer's or user's actual language in use; after all, who hasn't periodically sworn at their machine?
I did peek into the source code for ZIL verbs, and happened to find HO-HUM.…
One question I have is whether the critical reading of Machine Learning datasets and corpora could fall under CCS? On the one hand, datasets and corpora are not code. But on the other hand, code is created in order to read them, and they are used to…
@Stefkax said:
...With the progression of digital media towards algorithmic media...The exposure of the cultural bias in code is crucial because it exposes the imposition of monocultures both in computer science as well as in research driven thro…
Hi, my name is Lesia and I'm working on my interdisciplinary PhD in Web Science at the University of Southampton. I'm researching creative text generation, with a focus on generated novels.
I first came across CCS while researching for my BA thes…