I made a Downpour…game?

I've been playing with Downpour recently. It's a lot of fun. You could explain what Downpour is by comparing it to something like Hypercard. By combining text, images with some basic interactivity you can create little packages of hypertext that you can publish for anyone to use. You could also explain Downpour as a tool … Continue reading I made a Downpour…game? →

Doom WAD Bot

I like to follow bots on social media. Not the ones posting spam, misinformation or trolling replies. The ones that post algorithmic art, content and other fun things that brighten up your timeline. Twitter used to have a great community of bot builders but they destroyed that when they changed the API access. I used … Continue reading Doom WAD Bot →

Recreating sci-fi terminals using VHS

I heard about VHS recently. It's a tool for creating recordings of command-line tools, so you can create little demos and tutorials about how to use them. You can write a script to run commands, manipulate and theme the terminal and produce output in a range of formats. I started thinking about how I could … Continue reading Recreating sci-fi terminals using VHS →

A prompt to condition a Positronic Brain to follow the Three Laws of Robotics

Gopher is Deep Mind's new language model. I saw a tweet that highlighted the text prompt that the researchers used to prepare the model for having a conversation with users. The prompt is taken from the Gopher paper (see Table A30, page 114). The paper says that: In order to produce a conversationalist, we use … Continue reading A prompt to condition a Positronic Brain to follow the Three Laws of Robotics →

Prompting

My feed is full of screenshots of AI generated images made using Midjourney and DALL-E. I've seen Kermit the frog in, well, everything and Foucault on a swing. Creative prompt engineering can lead to some interesting results. And because interesting results leads to clicks which lead to revenue, then engineering interesting prompts will be a … Continue reading Prompting →

The British Hypertextual Society (1905-2017)

With their globe-spanning satellite network nearing completion, Peter Linkage reports on some of the key milestones in the history of the British Hypertextual Society. The British Hypertextual Society was founded in 1905 with a parliamentary grant from the Royal Society of London. At the time there was growing international interest in finding better ways to manage … Continue reading The British Hypertextual Society (1905-2017) →

Mega-City One: Smart City

"A smart city is an urban development vision to integrate multiple information and communication technology (ICT) and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions in a secure fashion to manage a city's assets – the city's assets include, but are not limited to, local departments' information systems, schools, libraries, transportation systems, hospitals, power plants, water supply networks, … Continue reading Mega-City One: Smart City →