Misc Narrative Research Links

A few papers I cut to save room in the newsletter post at end of month.

Interpolated Text Embeddings

A Tiny Project With Text Embeddings

I use “Nanogenmo” (National Novel Generation Month, November, distinct from NaNoWriMo) as an excuse to try computational narrative projects, increasingly with AI/ML help (but more interesting than just “generate me a novel.”) I’ve been wanting to play harder with semantic embeddings of text, using public domain fiction. The project for 2024 was a silly one, but featured one fun highlight, text interpolation (without generating anything new). The idea of latent interpolation has been around for a while, but I thought I’d show some examples for text and some how-to.

Kindle Page Turner

Silly but useful tech toys

Years ago, when I got my first Kindle (the first one made), I was suffering from RSI and hated having to hold the device and push a button to turn the page. I looked into ways to make a remote control using the USB connection, but gave up quickly.

Summoning Fairies

How I Got Here, Summoning Fairies

I looked into the folklore on seeing and summoning fairies for the intro to my TITAA newsletter issue, Fairies and Doom. But it was getting long, so I left out the deeper academic dives from 2 papers I found. Here you go!

A Few New AI Agent Simulations

Some agent simulation papers I didn’t include in my newsletter issue from mid-January, TITAA #62.5: Fairies and Doom. I’ll be putting overflow content onto the blog, to try to keep the length shorter