Allison Parrish @aparrish@friend.camp

me, an academic: color is simply too complex and beautiful to be reduced to any mere computational abstraction

me, frazzled after working on a library to represent color for a day:

thank you duckduckgo for this helpful juxtaposition of opinions on the issue

evolving allison by incrementally adding noise to the hidden phonetic state of a phoneme-to-grapheme-to-phoneme model...

tired: why don't you go jump in a lake, pal
wired: why don't you go query a data lake, pal

code and notes for the SFPC Code Societies workshop that I wrapped up last night, entitled "Computational exploration of magical and divinatory language" https://github.com/aparrish/comexmadivla including automated random word squares, magic words through noise applied to phonetic hidden states, oracle card vectorization, tarot t-SNE, etc.

preview of the video piece I'm putting in the SFPC retrospective exhibition (slightly more elaborate version of the word GAN interpolation thing I posted a while ago) https://sfpc.io/sevenyears/

tattoo idea

(do people normally get tattoos as a form of satire)

polymer plate and proof that i got from boxcar press today, using images generated from the GAN I trained on bitmaps of words (taking this to the letterpress in a few days to make some prints!)

the nba is secretly a rad dnd campaign

whenever i open the linen closet* shumai is RIGHT there to rush in and lie down among the hand towels and tablecloths

* before you think "ooh la la a linen closet allison is so fancy shmancy," this is also the closet where all the old video game consoles are stored. and some big pans for cooking turkeys. and the toilet paper and all my old CDs. also the only reason i'm looking for sheets is that one or more cats threw up on my bed while i was away

hmm

my pithy interpretation of this card expressed in the language of my generation (a simpsons gif)

bright green things i found in the park today

Philostratus the Elder's strident critique of machine learning, 3rd c. CE. "The pool paints Narcissus... Do you then expect the pool to enter into conversation with you?"
https://www.theoi.com/Text/PhilostratusElder1B.html#23

"the points that lie somewhere between shoes and pants" machine learning is good actually

oh no letterpress is actually really fun

the correct answer here was "country" but duolingo, my friend, my love, i *would* one day like to visit a french-speaking hamburger

further post-nanogenmo experiments with the word bitmap gan

been working on a lot of fancy text language poetry generation stuff lately but it's so tough to beat the tried and true technique of "replace words with other words sharing the same part of speech"

this has been on my "open projects and ideas" board for like a year and i am very happy right now to be able to take it down and rip it in half and throw it away