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markov chains

April 11, 2022

inspiration

my original idea for this project was to work on making a phonetic breakdown of words generated from a sentence. given that we are working on that this upcoming week, i am preparing my corpus for what i want to break down in the next week. the corpus itself is something that is relevant to my thesis — drawing from readings about intimacy and technology.

a few big questions i want to answer here: how can we be intimate with technology? or is technology only another medium to be intimate with other people? what drives intimacy?

process

the initial corpus was created from excerpts and my notes from the following books:

  • Make it Scream, Make it Burn by Leslie Jamison
  • Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy by Larissa Pham
  • The Collected Schizophrenia by Esme Wang
  • The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin

one thing i will note is that i did not get permission to use these books, nor did i write them myself.

each iteration below goes through the process of how i created my short poems though.

a first sample of getting text working
a first sample of getting text working

testing with character input rather than n-gram by words
testing with character input rather than n-gram by words

now testing the structure of the poem
now testing the structure of the poem

after creating the structure i wanted to see what the output would be on short sentences that were created from short sentences. i created a new file that pulls in the output from the previous markov chains that resulted in this file

the first test after creating a corpus file from the output of the first layer of markov. this is a markov on a markov chain.
the first test after creating a corpus file from the output of the first layer of markov. this is a markov on a markov chain.

using characters still but changing the order to be higher (previously it was at 1 and changed to 7)
using characters still but changing the order to be higher (previously it was at 1 and changed to 7)

using characters but a lower order (using 1)
using characters but a lower order (using 1)

resources

code in-class tutorial

a blog by sam heckle class of itp 2022. doing shit. twitter.