The text Machine Visions: towards a poetics of Artificial Intelligence just came in time as I was questioning myself if we were going to cover the use of text in its more aesthetics sense, leaning towards more into typography than mining text. So I want to share some thoughts on this subject.
In my 4 [...]

My code is not working as I want it to be, but then again if it were what would be the reason of taking this class :) So I am going to post it in the end of this post. By the way I am curious how Shiffman is using #IDs to skip on the [...]

I have been trying to implement Jackson Mac Low’s diastic readings[link] in Java for an exercise this week. I managed to work the algorithm partly, I can choose a phrase before compile and spit out the words according to it that my program reads from an input file. Couple of things are missing though;
I am [...]

Diastic reading:
Diastic reading is an arbitrary but not random way of selecting words from one text to create a new text.
A key phrase(title phrase) guides the selection of words. Let’s say that the key phrase is “red balloon.” Starting at the beginning of the text, we would select the first word that began with an [...]