- Alex has restarted his efforts to programmatically generate bad poetry.
– fixed the bit-rot in his old Lisp/inference-engine version
– started porting code for rhymes into Python
– NLTK is going to make this a whole lot easier.
– (((UP EVERYBODY) (ACROSS ALL DELIRIUM) (COME SAVE MAN WHILE OUT)))
– This wants to be running on App Engine, so people can vote snippets of text as POETIC OR NOT.
- Lindsey went to rehearsal for the choral piece she’s going to perform, answered a bunch of questions from her students, and is reading some papers about Foundational Proof-Carrying Code. And is still waiting to hear back from Jane Street.
Some of the grad students around Bloomington have started a weekly “study party” on Sunday afternoons at the local coffee shop — we need to hijack this and get them to work on cool side projects.
Also, our friend Will Byrd is getting a local hardware-hacking group together… he’s got Arduinos (etc) and is building animatronic kitties.