Victor Hugo Drawings

Victor Hugo’s Artwork Is Really Great.

The Royal Academy’s London exhibit on Victor Hugo’s ink artwork was terrific! You may know him as the author of Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, but he was also a tremendously dedicated politician, poet, and–evidently–artist!

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