Monthly Archives: February 2011

Learning Bit by Bit – Text Generation

Generating text with n-gram language models Using n-gram probabilistic language models for generating text. I chose a lengthy corpus: Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” as my main text complimenting it later with “Paradise Lost” by Milton.  Finally generating text from three poems by … Continue reading

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Reading and Writing Electronic Text – NLTK

An Introductory Experiment with NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit for Python) Let me start by saying that while it was my every intention to play with Sets and Dictionaries and Comprehensions… I somehow could not escape the allure of NLTK and … Continue reading

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Nature of Code – Particle Systems

Particle Systems (Blob Reactor) A simple exercise with particle systems using inheritance and OpenGL. Applet and Source

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Design Frontiers – Midterm Proposal

Midterm Proposals: #1: E-Field Camera #2: The Effects of Aqueous Ferrofluid on Plant Growth The proposed concept for the E-Field Camera is to employ the existing Van de Graaff generator from previous projects as a high energy field source in … Continue reading

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Design Frontiers – Tagny Duff

A brief presentation on artist and researcher Tagny Duff This presentation spotlights artist and researcher Tagny Duff’s work, specifically her recent project The Cryobook Archives. Presentation slides here as a PDF.

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Bit by Bit – Stop Tokenization

Stop Word Sets – Tokenization – Search When thinking about the importance of a “stop list” or “stop word list”,  essentially a low level gateway through which initial tokenization takes place, it’s hard not to consider on a more general … Continue reading

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Theory Club – Presentation

VALUE (an introduction to market dynamics and cultural agency) A presentation focusing on the production and regulation of value in the art market and how it applies to individual artists, new media, and emerging technologiesl. A PDF version of the … Continue reading

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Learning Bit by Bit – ELIZA

An ELIZA style chatbot using Regular Expressions Though I struggled with RegEx I managed to put something together that is almost functional. I hope to grasp the potential power of using RegEx in different ways. package class2.regexes;   import java.io.BufferedReader; … Continue reading

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Nature of Code – Week 2 (Vectors and Forces)

Vectors and Forces A simple sketch that I hope to elaborate on… eventually including repulsion / attraction, but for now: a gelatinous-like membrane that reacts to mouse movement and a flow force. Applet and Source here

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Design Frontiers – Science Fair Project (Continued))

Science Fair Project (Continued) Computation: Stored attributes in material state changes / polar and non-polar molecules. Considering computation on the simplest of levels and how it might relate to my previous project, the recreation of a 6th grade science fair … Continue reading

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