2013-11-13

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2013-11-13 11:00 am
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2013-11-13 05:44 pm

Fun and games with text generation algorithms

Playing with this site, which reads your FB statuses and then does some simple processing to produce new statuses based on them. The first few weren't very exciting - but this one really worked for me:

John and Erin Hardee's Civil Partnership celebration has a new entry to 'andrewducker' at the game.
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2013-11-13 08:02 pm

Good Lord, a trailer that passes the Bechdel Test.



(Speaking of which, I've encountered several discussions recently where people seemed to think the point was "Movies that pass the Bechdel Test: Good. Movies that fail the Bechdel Test: Bad". This seems, to me, to be a gross misunderstanding. The point is "There are _almost no movies_ which involve two women talking to each other about the plot, unless the plot is 'a man'.")
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2013-11-13 08:30 pm

I almost scrolled past this



And the only reason I didn't was the comment underneath saying "I almost scrolled past this!"

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