Sorry for the repost. This site like to delete things you write? Or something went wrong when I update the entry. If I remember correctly it's not the first time the combination a video and updating went wrong. Seems to be an old bug. (Since this is about AI, one can ask if a AI can't fix the bug.)

At 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? Ok, if I'm lucky it's not boring either. Also note that it's about me learning, not about me being an expert.  But to start. One literature history example of using algorithms to create was the Oulipo group in post war French. And maybe the most famous example from that group was when Georges Perec wrote a novel without using the letter "e". That said my first example, is an example that needs some coding. 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


Second example. If you read the above, I can reward you with some AI slope. 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.


I mentioned Perec, his debute novel was named: Things a story of the sixties. Inspired by that I one time wrote a poem named: Things a story of the 90s*. A poem with included the line: "The older generation said: 'All you need is love' Central Peak Café style". To do this you used to need to hire actors.



The third video. I wanted to see the creatures from Remembrance of earth's past/Three body problem by Liu Cixin finding the planet Solaris from the book with the same name by Stanisław Lem. To do this you used to need more money and more knowledge about CGI.



At last, 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 Swedish AutoModel, & AutoTokenizer, or whatever it's called, from the royal library in Stockholm. And since I mentioned transformers, 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 papers and 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.

Today was the first time in a very long time that I took a sedative because of the state of the world. Ukraine is Europe, invading Ukraine is invading one of us. Greenland is a Nordic country, just like Sweden, it would be even more like invading us. Now we can only hope that both the US and Russia have made the mistake of a lifetime. And Europe can become the golden city on a hill, which the countries that have made their mistakes can look up to.







Yep, I'm sharing a Finnish YouTube channel here. Other interesting points from the same channel are that the EU and Sweden must both be doing something right, because reactionaries in Moscow, Tehran and Washington hate both the EU and Sweden. That doesn't mean that everything is perfect here, but if we try to fix our problems and can stick together, it can work out.



That's right, if I want, I can go to the FutureLearn platform and search for ‘Emergency preparedness’. A little more constructive than psychotropic drugs

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I still don't know what to do now when I'm old. But for fun I can post a reindeer related screenshot from a online course, that I already posted on bsky. And also cut and past my message from there: "Python has been mentioned here. I can now write loops that draw figures.
Addendum for you familiar with molecular biology. It's doubtful I can write loops that translate the sequence 'UGAUGCAGAUSS' into a peptide.
PS. If you know that sequence doesn't produce a peptide, give yourself a pat."

A few days in the beginning of the summer I actually had a plan. But that did not work. Maybe I go back to the university, to a Bachelor degree in life science with a thesis about bioinformatic. No pressure, if that doesn't work I might just have to sell my apartment.

More than once I have written that one of the hallmarks of a time of constant crisis is that the global affects one's own life. It may be time to ironically thank Americans. Since so many of them are working to make the world dangerous for liberal democracies, my extremely modest amount of shares in the defense industry are soaring. Here’s to not feeling that poor anymore!


Ps. of course this isn't stock tips, I’m not the person to give that.

I don't know how much of a long shot the following is, but if I'm lucky I got to work on a thesis that includes the words "wild type populus". It also means that I contacted a central European doctor researcher. I was worried if I should call him doctor in an e-mail? We Scandinavians don't tend to be so formal with titles.

Until then I have a very literary period. I have read a lot, books as a primitive escapist. I'm starting to get the impression that it's not worth mentioning local authors here, because I have heard English is a difficult language to get translate into. The authors I might have met, who even might say “Hi” to me if I met them in town, can be translated to Polish or Dutch but are not found on the English market. The English speakers don’t care about us. Haha. Since I have two books on my bookshelf, that are partly written in Scots we can for fun ask if Scots is a less difficult language to be translated into than English? The two books mentioned are Trainspotting by Irving Wells and Moven Caller by Alan Warner.

Here’s one story about how I chose books to read. One of my dad's hobbies is selling books online, he’s selling off all his books. That means the books that are left in my parents book shelfs more or less are books that don't sell. Sometimes I borrow from those unsellable books. Two books I read recently are from that source. Both are by dead, white, men awarded the Nobel Prize: Halldór Laxness and Ernst Hemingway.

The novel I liked most was Laxness’s The atom station. A young woman, in a newly independent Iceland, comes from the rural areas of the country, to Reykjavik, a town with governmental ministers, communists, poets, and American soldiers. The atom station in the title is Keflavik air base (I don’t know if the US ever had nukes on that base).

The Hemingway novel I read was To have and have not. The most Marxist of his books, but the book also includes the n-word and so. Weird since social media is full of people with american accent who dismiss “woke” as being “Marxism” and I don’t think that word is “woke”. Seriously, the thing is that when I grew up politics, or specifically the ideology Marxism, were about things like class, dialectic materialism, who should own the means of production ... things that the chronically online culture warriors of today never talk about.

The third book I want to mention is Engine empire (2013) by Cathy Park Hong, born 1976, Los Angeles. It’s experimental, futuristic poetry. I’m reading her on Google books, and listening to her reading on youtube - futurism and California. Don’t know when it’s time to give a Nobel prize to a poet next time, but I don’t think Hong will get it next year - they can’t give it to an ethical Korean woman two years in a row? Ok, I mentioned politics.

You know what, I could of course write something about American politics besides posing as a know-it-all. The sad thing for us is if the US abandons Ukraine. Then we have to step in and take over, and Make Europe Great Again. We will fail, but we should try. If I can do science, I’ll do my part.

I wonder if I have understood the following correctly, that the US constitution says that the president can’t veto a declaration of war? The three Baltic states are always mentioned as Russia's second target after Ukraine. So one thought is that Russia in Januray will think: “Our boys are in the white house, lets invade, kill, torture, rape, and deport as many Baltic people as we want”. But if it’s the congress that’s declaring war, they still can declare war on Russia, no matter how much the president and the vice president yell about it? The pentagon will say: "No, that's the constitution - time to blow some stuff up and kick some butt!"

Btw in January Sweden will have NATO-troops, in the Baltic state Latvia.

Unrelated, the celebrity death that so to speak has affected me most has been the more obscure celebrities. Now it was the doctor, writer and translator Salomon Schulman who recently died. One coincidence was that Schulman studied to become a doctor simultaneously and in the same classes as my dad. Therefore it became personal for me. Still, one can write some words about Schulman, his mother survived Auschwitz, his father survived gulag. That’s actually connected to the first part of this entry, war and dictatorships.

Also, I haven’t had time to be here. I haven’t read anything here in some weeks.

Video about Russian women actually protesting the war.

 

I live 300 m from a lake in the forest. The lake that happens to be my childhood bathing and fishing lake. Yesterday I could sit by the lake, up here 64° N, and watch swans and also listen to something about Nietzsche on the phone, because that's what the algorithm recommended me to listen to. Ok I gave up on Nietzsche. But poetic words, forest lake, swans, 64° N. Then I went home and consumed digestive with 30% reduced sugar and lotus tea. Yes, oddly enough, I have lotus tea at home.

The day before yesterday I andRobert saw Oppenheimer. Words here I have from the book Einstein's monster by Martin Amis and from a swedish history book. Amis made a point of the the childish names: The gadget, the cradle, Little boy and later Nuclear football and why do I think the first H-bomb was named “My child”? Well, I can’t find that information online so I must remember wrong. The Swedish book had more about Heissenbergs and Niels Bohr’s meeting in Copenhagen, and Heissenbergs claim he had suggest physicists all over the world should lie to politicians and the military and say that an atomic bomb wouldn’t be practical to build. Only that Bohr didn’t remember it that way. That book might not have had the line: "I am become death ..." it did however had Niels Bohrs line "Is it big enought?".