creative-coding
June 13 2023
glitch art, chat loops, farms, code poetry
Videos
I built a plugin that works like a DIY code interpreter where an end user decides what rules GPT should check against. GPT is smart enough to facilitate it's own retry logic, which is neat as hell!
Photos
the town of yakima has a really active git profile
Art
Code
One thing I do a lot is append text to specific headings in a MD file, so this Python script helps with just that!!
Playing around with the e2e experience of a Readwise quote > app (or pseudocode). I also just got an iPad so I'm playing with the Freeform app :)
Poetry
Experimenting with Code Poetry more as an art form. Here's a few GPT results from my favorite song rn, Ascencionism:
Python:
Visual Basic:
Class Desire ' Well, I know what you want from me
Property Reflection As Boolean ' You want someone to be your reflection
Property Deception As Boolean ' Your bitter deception
Function SetFree() ' Setting you free
' So you take what you want and leave
Return True
End Function
End Class
Class Mystery ' Who made you like this?
Property BodyLanguage As String ' Who encrypted your dark gospel in body language?
Property BlissfulAnguish As Boolean ' Synapses snap back in blissful anguish
End Class
Class PastLife ' Tell me you met me in past lives, past life
Property InsideEating As Boolean ' Past what might be eating me from the inside, darling
Property RhythmHalfDeity As Boolean ' Half of a rhythm, half deity
Property GlitchesOrGaps As String ' Glitches in the code or gaps in a strange dream
End Class
Class Fantasy ' Tell me you guessed my future and it mapped onto your fantasy
Property Mannequin As Boolean ' Turn me into your mannequin
Property PuppetQueen As Boolean ' and I'll turn you into my puppet queen
End Class
Class DanceInTheDark ' Won't you come and dance in the dark with me?
' Show me what you are, I am desperate to know
Property PerfectEnemy As Boolean ' Nobody better than the perfect enemy
Property DigitalDemons As Boolean ' Digital demons make the night feel heavenly
End Class
Class Reality ' Make it real
' 'Cause anything's better than the way I feel right now
Property BlacklitParadise As Boolean ' I can offer you a blacklit paradise
Property DiamondsInTrees As Boolean ' Diamonds in the trees, pentagrams in the night sky
Property LipstickChemtrailsRedflagsPinkNails As Boolean ' Lipstick, chemtrails, red flags, pink nails
End Class
Class Eye
Property Door As Boolean ' With one eye on the door
Property Rail As Boolean ' other eye on a rail
Property ScarletTrail As Boolean ' Other, other eye following a scarlet trail
Property HolyGrail As Boolean ' And the last few drops from the Holy Grail, now
End Class
Class DarkFashion
' Rose gold chains, ripped lace, cut glass
' Blood stains on the collar, please, just don't ask
Function Feast() ' Be the first to the feast, let's choke on the past
' And take to the broken skies at last
Return True
End Function
End Class
Class Ascend ' You cannot watch me ascend
' And I know what you want from me
Property Same As Boolean ' You want the same as me
Property Redemption As Boolean ' My redemption, eternal ascension
Function SetFree() ' Setting me free
' So I'll take what I want then leave
Return True
End Function
End Class
Class Disappear ' You make me wish I could disappear, oh
' You make me wish I could disappear
Function Wish() As Boolean
Return True
End Function
End Class
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May 18 2023
8-bit bram, queen charolette, nyu itp, agentic process humans vs bots, voice memos to whisper
Images
8-bit bram
Bridgerton - Queen Charolette
I am Venus
Code
This is great, I recommend!
Went to NYU ITP Spring 2023, here were my favorite booths:
Videos
My internet is way better now -- thanks FioS! -- so I celebrated with a stream working on my monorepo and I had fun.
Perhaps the craziest workout I've ever seen
https://exrx.net/WeightExercises/Sternocleidomastoid/BWFrontNeckBridge
Zenitsu be doing it
When you realize that this guy and Caster got the happiest ends out of every main character in this series…
Music
Raw Thoughts
Animals unconsciously agent in their environment and change it (overeating resources -- finches for example)
Humans consciously agent their environment and change it (global warming for example)
Programs agent their environment in a feedback loop that is not conscious in the sense of serving the need to eat for survival but not unconscious due to fact that they know what’s going on with access to state of impossibly massive systems (which is why humans get caught off guard by bugs)
If coding with an LLM was painting, gpt serves as the broad strokes applied to the sketch of an artist -- it’s hallucinations serve as the rough edges of the paint stroke on the canvas. The artist meticulously changes a line or two and instead of deciding to paint a mountain in the background he decides to paint a tree and asks the LLM to draw the broad strokes of a tree and to reintegrate the surrounding landscape to make the tree seem like it was always there. But he doesn’t remember the size of a tree so he uses LLM as a reminder of how tall they are what color the bark is how many leaves a tree has, etc.
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