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That's a really interesting corpus.

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I think I'll try to use this data set as a basis for my wonderful,
heart-breaking, postmodern 50k word novel:
http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_executed_offenders.html

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Here's a scrape of that data from last July:

http://www.visualisingdata.com/index.php/2013/07/texas-death-row-execution-data/

And a wordcloud of the last words of the last statements:

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Now I'm thinking about inserting those statements into Garfield panels. Wouldn't count as a novel, though, and it's also not the best idea copyright-wise. But it might still be fun to do.

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Here's my warm-up exercise, a randomly generated sequence of characters that follows n-gram patterns learned from Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities":
http://enigmabrot.de/new_dickens.txt

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It looks like Joyce! (I'd call that a success)

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Here's my warm-up exercise, a randomly generated sequence of characters
that follows n-gram patterns learned from Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two
Cities":
http://enigmabrot.de/new_dickens.txt

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Possibly of interest: I built something with the TX death row corpus last december http://tinysubversions.com/stuff/lastwords/

It wasn't for NaNoGenMo, I'm interested in what you do with it for longform work.

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It's reeeeaaaally difficult to find a use for those statements without feeling terrible about it. Have to think about it for a little more.

Meanwhile, I'm curious to see if my Python skills allow me to do something like this: http://joshmillard.com/garkov/
That guy changed the content of the speech bubbles in Garfield strips to markovated word sequences. I was going to only change the last bubble in a strip, to something extracted from somewhere else (e.g. Wikipedia article first sentences? ConceptNet sentences? Tweets by famous people?). The difficulty here, for me at least, is automatically recognizing the speech bubble in the image.

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Garfield colors in the background, etc. I suspect that if you grab the
largest contiguous chunk of white you'll probably get a speech bubble.

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 5:26 AM, Esther Seyffarth [email protected]
wrote:

It's reeeeaaaally difficult to find a use for those statements without
feeling terrible about it. Have to think about it for a little more.

Meanwhile, I'm curious to see if my Python skills allow me to do something
like this: http://joshmillard.com/garkov/
That guy changed the content of the speech bubbles in Garfield strips to
markovated word sequences. I was going to only change the last bubble in a
strip, to something extracted from somewhere else (e.g. Wikipedia article
first sentences? ConceptNet sentences? Tweets by famous people?). The
difficulty here, for me at least, is automatically recognizing the speech
bubble in the image.

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I replaced every word in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with a word that rhymes with the original word.

Full text: http://enigmabrot.de/new_alice.txt

Example: The rabbit-hole meant est upon like a tunnel for some pray, and then tipped suddenly crown, so suddenly cat Alice mad trot a moment you shrink snout stopping himself before we drowned itself falling crown a very asleep well. Neither the well was very sleep, or we well very slowly, for we mad plenty of time as we went brown you look out her and few thunder what was lowing you happen next.

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nice!

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Thanks!

I also made a text consisting solely of random definitions of things from Wikipedia.

In novel form, it looks like this: http://enigmabrot.de/new_booksplain.txt

Kurdalægon is the heavenly god of the blacksmiths in Ossetian mythology. Thil is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France. Mbongo is the common ancestor of the Sawa peoples of Cameroon according to their oral traditions. The Sitlika Range is a subrange of the Hogem Ranges of the Omineca Mountains, bounded by the Fall River and Ogden Creek in northern British Columbia, Canada. The North Otago Cricket Association was founded in 1899 for the growing interest of cricket in the district. Amanda Nicole Wilkinson is a Canadian country music singer. Minolia ceraunia is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae. Bianca Botto-Arias is a professional Peruvian tennis player.

In dialogue form, it looks like this: http://enigmabrot.de/booksplain_dialogue.txt

Alice: Kurdalægon is the heavenly god of the blacksmiths in Ossetian mythology.
Bob: Thil is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France.
Alice: Mbongo is the common ancestor of the Sawa peoples of Cameroon according to their oral traditions.
Bob: The Sitlika Range is a subrange of the Hogem Ranges of the Omineca Mountains, bounded by the Fall River and Ogden Creek in northern British Columbia, Canada.
Alice: The North Otago Cricket Association was founded in 1899 for the growing interest of cricket in the district.
Bob: Amanda Nicole Wilkinson is a Canadian country music singer.

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Is the source available for these?

We're really supposed to have text + sourcecode.

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