Feb. 5th, 2026 04:07 pm
Geeky, boring, weird, and name dropping
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oakfarmAt best this entry could be a draft to an article about how to use AI and algorithms to create. The title might also be correct. Except one could discuses if I am geeky? Also since it is me using the techniques, the following is me, myself and I.
To start, is AI slope helped by having a background story? Ok, AI videos are one clear example of people like me being able to produce things we could not before. If I ever produce a real article, I might not need three examples, but here I am going to post three AI videos with backstories. One backstory from literature history, one from sci-fi, and one from STEM.
The STEM example first. Last autumn Nobel Prize avoided Emmanuelle Charpentier was made a honorary citizen in my home town. I found it charming that she said the snow up here creaked: "Crispr, Crispr" under her shoes. My old biochemistry book merely described Crispr as a bacteria immune system, but yeah Crispr for Gene editing was what Charpentier shared the prize for. Anyway, I going to assume one, back in the day, needed to be an old fashioned nerd, who could hyper focus on coding, to make a video with snowflakes and the word Crispr. Not today.
The other example, an example that needs some coding, is that I just learned about using Markov Chains (MC) for finding patterns in genomes. One search engineer search later I know that you can use MC for predictive text. So I took code from this site and trained the algorithm on the two most worn poetry books I have, both of which happen to be in English: Cathy Park Hong's Engine Empire and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. (FWIW, I like Hong's book, but I don't understand the greatness of The Waste Land.)
Engine Empire also includes some Ouilpi things: Ballad in A, respective Ballad in O. Both poems written with, lets say, a restricted numbers of vocals:
O Boomtown’s got lots of sordor:
Odd horrors of throwdowns,
bold cowboys lock horns,
forlorn hobos plot to rob pots of gold,
loco mobs drool for blood,
howl or hoot for cottonwood blooms,
throng to hood crooks to strong wood posts.
So don’t confront hotbloods,
[...]
From the preticted text:
Market forces are brighter than the sun beats, And the dry stone no sound of water.
A storm raged for a moment a broken Coriolanus Da Damyata: The boat responded Gaily, to the clouds, haunted by a weekend at the Metropole.
Here is the man who I used to chirp at each other like demented birds.
Then a damp gust Bringing rain Ganga was sunken, and the sandy road The road winding above among the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the mountains Which are mountains of tinted tallow trees and pars graced with stately flame throated birds-of-paradise.
Could I write poetry from that? I like the word "beats" showing up:
Beats, market forces were brighter than the summer sun
now, the beats are winter
No beats of water, dry stone,
Storm Beats, to the clouds, haunted
birds-of-paradise, while Ganga was sunken
and the icy road without the beats of sand
That said, if I want to be quite ambitious the end project could be to fine tune a transformer to add rhythm to my poetry. I want it to be in Swedish, meaning I could use the model, or whatever it's called, from the royal library in Stockholm. And btw, it wasn't until last autumn I learned that the "t" in "chatgpt" stood for "transformers": "generative pre-trained transformers".
*One poem I send to four different papers and I got rejected four times.
** Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. That the p stands for palindrome actually gives and excuse to point out that palindrome was used by the Ouilpi group as well.
Post scriptum, I used youtube, but I thought about peertube. Actually, I used to have a peertube account, but it has been deactivated. Possible since I haven't logged in, in years. At the end of the day, I'm still using less US tech than I used to.
To start, is AI slope helped by having a background story? Ok, AI videos are one clear example of people like me being able to produce things we could not before. If I ever produce a real article, I might not need three examples, but here I am going to post three AI videos with backstories. One backstory from literature history, one from sci-fi, and one from STEM.
The STEM example first. Last autumn Nobel Prize avoided Emmanuelle Charpentier was made a honorary citizen in my home town. I found it charming that she said the snow up here creaked: "Crispr, Crispr" under her shoes. My old biochemistry book merely described Crispr as a bacteria immune system, but yeah Crispr for Gene editing was what Charpentier shared the prize for. Anyway, I going to assume one, back in the day, needed to be an old fashioned nerd, who could hyper focus on coding, to make a video with snowflakes and the word Crispr. Not today.
The other example, an example that needs some coding, is that I just learned about using Markov Chains (MC) for finding patterns in genomes. One search engineer search later I know that you can use MC for predictive text. So I took code from this site and trained the algorithm on the two most worn poetry books I have, both of which happen to be in English: Cathy Park Hong's Engine Empire and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. (FWIW, I like Hong's book, but I don't understand the greatness of The Waste Land.)
Engine Empire also includes some Ouilpi things: Ballad in A, respective Ballad in O. Both poems written with, lets say, a restricted numbers of vocals:
O Boomtown’s got lots of sordor:
Odd horrors of throwdowns,
bold cowboys lock horns,
forlorn hobos plot to rob pots of gold,
loco mobs drool for blood,
howl or hoot for cottonwood blooms,
throng to hood crooks to strong wood posts.
So don’t confront hotbloods,
[...]
From the preticted text:
Market forces are brighter than the sun beats, And the dry stone no sound of water.
A storm raged for a moment a broken Coriolanus Da Damyata: The boat responded Gaily, to the clouds, haunted by a weekend at the Metropole.
Here is the man who I used to chirp at each other like demented birds.
Then a damp gust Bringing rain Ganga was sunken, and the sandy road The road winding above among the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the mountains Which are mountains of tinted tallow trees and pars graced with stately flame throated birds-of-paradise.
Could I write poetry from that? I like the word "beats" showing up:
Beats, market forces were brighter than the summer sun
now, the beats are winter
No beats of water, dry stone,
Storm Beats, to the clouds, haunted
birds-of-paradise, while Ganga was sunken
and the icy road without the beats of sand
That said, if I want to be quite ambitious the end project could be to fine tune a transformer to add rhythm to my poetry. I want it to be in Swedish, meaning I could use the model, or whatever it's called, from the royal library in Stockholm. And btw, it wasn't until last autumn I learned that the "t" in "chatgpt" stood for "transformers": "generative pre-trained transformers".
*One poem I send to four different papers and I got rejected four times.
** Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. That the p stands for palindrome actually gives and excuse to point out that palindrome was used by the Ouilpi group as well.
Post scriptum, I used youtube, but I thought about peertube. Actually, I used to have a peertube account, but it has been deactivated. Possible since I haven't logged in, in years. At the end of the day, I'm still using less US tech than I used to.