{"id":9683,"date":"2017-10-04T06:45:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T14:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/10\/04\/news-3456\/"},"modified":"2017-10-04T06:45:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T14:45:03","slug":"news-3456","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/10\/04\/news-3456\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Harness Data Science for Experimental Creative Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/59d2b0b806c767161d364277\/lede\/1506983198373-Screen-Shot-2017-10-02-at-32614-PM.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Michael Byrne| Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I could tell you some things about my own career as a an experimental creative writer, about what a relentless diet of JG Ballard can do to the brain of a 20-year-old white male and about how a story about pilots boning during a plane crash might lead to the mass confiscation of a student literary journal by right-wing activists. But let&#8217;s just say I wasn&#8217;t a very good writer of experimental fiction. <\/p>\n<div data-iframely-id=\"pZIPJSI\" class=\"article__embed article__embed--iframely\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.2493%;\" data-iframely-smart-iframe=\"true\"><iframe  src= width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Maybe all I needed were some commonly used textual analysis tools wielded by data scientists and machine learning engineers. Namely: word vectors. In the lecture above, given at last week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestrangeloop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Strange Loop software engineering conference<\/a> in St. Louis, programmer, poet, and New York University professor Allison Parrish explains her work toward an &#8220;experimental poetics of &#8216;textual waveforms'&#8221; as a part of the larger project dubbed computational creativity. <\/p>\n<p>It sounds fancy, but the idea is really just of producing text that targets &#8220;how it makes your brain feel.&#8221; It&#8217;s text that&#8217;s liberated, in a sense, from literal meaning. But that&#8217;s still meaningful. <\/p>\n<p>Parrish&#8217;s explanations of this stuff are pretty clear, so I&#8217;ll leave you alone with the presentation. It ends with some cool word vector experiments and a poetry reading. Maybe the first-ever at a software engineering conference?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/wjxbqw\/how-to-harness-data-science-for-experimental-creative-writing\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/59d2b0b806c767161d364277\/lede\/1506983198373-Screen-Shot-2017-10-02-at-32614-PM.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Michael Byrne| Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>NYU professor Allison Parrish describes a new frontier in marrying textual analysis and poetry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10643,13328,10378],"tags":[14227,4088,15146],"class_list":["post-9683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent","category-motherboard","category-security","tag-data-science","tag-poetry","tag-software-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}