Using Rules with a SpaCy TextCat Classifier for NSFW ContentThis is a short tech note (consider it intermediate level?) on how to modify a spaCy NLP pipeline to incorporate rules to override — or…Jan 12, 2023Jan 12, 2023
Dwarf2Text: A Mediocre Data-to-Text Generation Project Leads to Learning Stuff (Part 1)In this article, I will introduce text generation from data tables, using a project I did with game data as a base from which to explore…Jun 26, 20212Jun 26, 20212
“Plotto”: Generating Truly Offensive Stories Since 1928.Tl;dr: I wrote a lot of code to generate stories from the 1928 writer’s manual “Plotto,” and then I looked at the data and decided that…Oct 16, 20183Oct 16, 20183
My AI-Art Talk for ResonateEarlier this year, I was one of the folks invited to speak at Resonate Festival who didn’t end up going, after they dropped out of touch in…Jun 3, 2018Jun 3, 2018
OpenVis Conference: Data Visualization on the Open Web“OpenVis is massively influential and packed to the gills with top talent.”Mar 5, 2018Mar 5, 2018
COCO’s Memory Palace: A Strange Fantasia(This is my KIKK Festival 2017 talk written up, from the Tech Track. It was opposite @quasimondo’s talk, so I think it might find a larger…Nov 5, 2017Nov 5, 2017
Things I Think Are Awesome 4: Maps and Poetry and PeopleIt’s been a long time since the last newsletter/post. Sometimes it’s hard to focus on the awesome, when your course is killing your…Sep 30, 2017Sep 30, 2017
Things I Think Are Awesome, Ep3: Time, Space, Memory[Cross-posted from my tinyletter list here.]May 1, 20171May 1, 20171
Things I Think Are Awesome Ep 2: Bots, MeteorsHi again — thanks for signing up [originally posted on my tinyletter]! This time has more focus on things that make me smile, because they…Apr 30, 2017Apr 30, 2017
Things I Think Are Awesome-Episode 1.[This was originally published as my first post on my new tinyletter. I’ve decided to cross-post them all here since the lack of feedback…Apr 30, 2017Apr 30, 2017