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best part of having friends who publish is getting to meet the little simulacra of them that are running on other people’s brains. like oh...

best part of having friends who publish is getting to meet the little simulacra of them that are running on other people’s brains. like oh yeah *we* just met but i’ve had this conversation before with the person who’s currently possessing you. cool new substrate you’ve got there

both of these are preludes to longer papers – in particular, we'll also be presenting a full-length paper on the homogenization...

both of these are preludes to longer papers – in particular, we'll also be presenting a full-length paper on the homogenization effects work at Creativity & Cognition in June. detailed thread coming soon!

2. a late-breaking paper with @barrettrees + recent SCU MS grad Jash Shah on evaluating the “homogenization effects” of creativity...

2. a late-breaking paper with @barrettrees + recent SCU MS grad Jash Shah on evaluating the “homogenization effects” of creativity support tools

(i.e., whether & how much a tool influences different users toward similar creative decisions)

https://mkremins.github.io/publications/Homogenization_CHI2024.pdf

1. an In2Writing workshop paper on the “dearth of the author” effect that arises when short prompts are directly expanded into much...

1. an In2Writing workshop paper on the “dearth of the author” effect that arises when short prompts are directly expanded into much longer pieces of writing…

+ some early thoughts on reversing this dearth (toward an AI-supported “abundance of the author”)

https://mkremins.github.io/publications/Dearth_In2Writing2024.pdf

i'll be at CHI next week! presenting two papers on AI-based creativity support toolsparticularly looking forward to chatting with anyone...

i'll be at CHI next week! presenting two papers on AI-based creativity support tools

particularly looking forward to chatting with anyone who's working on AI-supported writing / storytelling

i’m in SF for GDC this week! and talking a bit about Blabrecs at the Experimental Game Workshop on Fridaylmk if you want to meet up &...

i’m in SF for GDC this week! and talking a bit about Blabrecs at the Experimental Game Workshop on Friday

lmk if you want to meet up & we don’t already have plans

training on the test set is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be… *emergent*

training on the test set is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be… *emergent*

mental state: note to self from 2 hours ago; no memory of making it; only contents are “Do THE WRITIng”

mental state: note to self from 2 hours ago; no memory of making it; only contents are “Do THE WRITIng”

my fermi paradox idlegame Epitaph was near the top of Hacker News last night, so i guess it’s as good a time as any to remind people about...

my fermi paradox idlegame Epitaph was near the top of Hacker News last night, so i guess it’s as good a time as any to remind people about Epitaph https://mkremins.github.io/epitaph

any embeddings-based computational poetry, of course, owes a huge debt to @aparrish's early work on the poetic application of word...

any embeddings-based computational poetry, of course, owes a huge debt to
@aparrish's early work on the poetic application of word embeddings (& later work on *phonetic* embeddings) https://portfolio.decontextualize.com

this is the second in a series of sentence embedding-based writing experiments, with the first being my NaNoGenMo entry Whalequesti've...

this is the second in a series of sentence embedding-based writing experiments, with the first being my NaNoGenMo entry Whalequest

i've been fascinated by how much embeddings are capable of & how easy it is to use them poetically in all manner of ways

https://mastodon.social/@maxkreminski/111501073456516781

we also support an alternative "destroy meaning" mode (we called this "waluigi mode" during development) that tries to...

we also support an alternative "destroy meaning" mode (we called this "waluigi mode" during development) that tries to make minimal edits maximally destructive to meaning

this occasionally yields some great asemic writing

🫠 new poetry machine: savelostgiven a sentence, savelost repeatedly picks one letter to delete…while trying to keep the new sentence as...

🫠 new poetry machine: savelost

given a sentence, savelost repeatedly picks one letter to delete…

while trying to keep the new sentence as semantically similar as possible to the orig sentence

concept + algo by me, js port + frontend by @barrettrees

https://barrettrees.com/savelost

still think about this constantly https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/magazine/bruno-latour-post-truth-philosopher-science.html

still think about this constantly https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/magazine/bruno-latour-post-truth-philosopher-science.html

poetry is the continuation of prose by other means

poetry is the continuation of prose by other means

can't say i knew what i was expecting out of life but i *know* it didn't include "buying eight scrabble sets at once for art...

can't say i knew what i was expecting out of life but i *know* it didn't include "buying eight scrabble sets at once for art reasons"

🐳 Whalequesta sorting of the sentences in Moby-Dick by their semantic similarity to the word "whale" (least to most whaley)....

🐳 Whalequest

a sorting of the sentences in Moby-Dick by their semantic similarity to the word "whale" (least to most whaley). become the Ahab of semantic space

didn't mean to enter NaNoGenMo this year, but the idea got ahold of me & wouldn't let go

https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2023/issues/32

🔠 Blabrecs: An AI-Based Game of Nonsense Word Creationlonger writeup of my AI-based wordgame Blabrecs, which i'll be showing off...

🔠 Blabrecs: An AI-Based Game of Nonsense Word Creation

longer writeup of my AI-based wordgame Blabrecs, which i'll be showing off (with @isaackarth) as part of the NeurIPS Creative AI exhibition this year

lmk if you'll be at NeurIPS and want to meet up!

https://mkremins.github.io/publications/Blabrecs_NeurIPS2023.pdf

the true audience of a paper is an enthusiastic undergrad in a country you’ve never been to working on something no one around them cares...

the true audience of a paper is an enthusiastic undergrad in a country you’ve never been to working on something no one around them cares about twenty years after you’ve already left the field

the real value of publishing papers as a software person is that even if your code bitrots in two years, even if your company goes bankrupt...

the real value of publishing papers as a software person is that even if your code bitrots in two years, even if your company goes bankrupt in six months, you can still burn a record of what you did into the noosphere for your next-generation mindkin