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Show HN: BrainTripping - language model comedy
- _pferreir_ 14y agoGreat! Are you using a markov chain for the suggestions? Is it a "dissociated press" kind of thing?
- h34t 14y agoSimilar, yes. The main difference here is the role that you (the user) play in shaping the output.
- _pferreir_ 14y agoAre you using only the previous word as the input for the chain? I wonder if it would be better to use something like the previous 2 words. I think that's how Mark V. Shaney managed to be so convincing.
- jawr 14y agoQuirky idea, gave it a little whirl. Really love the feel of the website; the graphics are awesome! Nice work.
- DanielRibeiro 14y agoPretty cool! There are some hilarious submissions: http://images-cdn.braintripping.com/trips/4f9efd4088cbda030000113e/img.png http://images-cdn.braintripping.com/trips/4f9efd4088cbda0300...
- slig 14y agoReally nice! Amazing graphics. Did you do them too?
- h34t 14y agoAn illustrator helps me out on those. That was a happy accident; I was going to use photographs, but found that getting permission for all of them could be impossible, so the only way to make it graphical was to come up with original portraits. I didn't realize that they'd change the entire character of the site in a really good way.
- dwerthen 14y agoI enjoyed the way that the "intelligence" of it left a lot of room for ones creativity. Nice game/tool when one is in need of a little something to get the writing flow going!
- jontang 14y agoTotal blast! Love how each selection can take the sound bytes into a whole new direction. Well done!
- fredsters_s 14y agoLove this site
- oulipo 14y agoawesome, I'm currently working on a website to build experiments around the writing process I have quite a few idea and I like those kind of projects that permit to liberate the creativity (through constraints!)
- caublestone 14y agoThis is better than anonymity.
- mnicole 14y agoI laughed at the premise alone, but seeing the submissions and trying it out myself was a blast. Great work on this. I'd almost like to see an X vs. Y poetry slam.
- conesus 14y agoBrainTripping is a lot of fun, but what I love about is that it's one of those ideas that is completely unique. Something I've never heard of before and then get to experience something completely new. Once you get past the learning curve of knowing that the end trip is a mash of your thoughts and the original's writings, it becomes easier to see how to think on BT. Kudos on the launch, and here's hoping for a bright future.
- tunnuz 14y agoThat's a really interesting project. And I love the graphics!
- delano 14y agoWow, great work! It takes a lot of effort to think and write in character (phrases, vocabulary, and most importantly mood). I've had a lot of fun tweeting as the old-timey characters for one of my brands (https://www.blamestella.com/news https://www.blamestella.com/news) but it's definitely felt like hard work at times. Huge kudos for really breaking it down and simplifying it.
- h34t 14y agoThanks! I took a screenwriting course a couple of years ago, and the first exercise was writing dialogue as a 17-year-old girl. It was rather mind-bending. While developing BrainTripping I was often surprised by word combinations that are second nature to me, but other people never use (and vice versa).
- rdl 14y agoThis is really fun, but coming up with interesting things to say is hard independent of whose brain you are using.
- xtractinator 14y ago~or~ how to get a bunch of people to train your neural network
- xtractinator 14y ago~or~ how to get a bunch of people to train your neural network
- bonaldi 14y agoOnly Facebook connect or manual login? I choose neither.
- ybother 14y ago~or~ how to get a bunch of people to train your neural network
- roycyang 14y agoLove the ability to download the trip so I can add it to my own site.
- rufugee 14y agoMind sharing what OCR software you used? I'm working on project which has just this need. Thanks!
- h34t 14y agoIf you email me (me at matt.is) I can get back to you - I played with so many I can't remember which one at the moment.
- makmanalp 14y agohttp://www.braintripping.com/new/paul-graham http://www.braintripping.com/new/paul-graham
- drv 14y agoThis one's interesting: "I'll just write everything this way from now on." - pg as Paul Graham 3 months ago http://www.braintripping.com/trips/4f90ad9fb3b88b0300000f3a http://www.braintripping.com/trips/4f90ad9fb3b88b0300000f3a
- Axsuul 14y agoReally creative idea and +1 for Backbone.js! It seems like your Leaderboard views linger when changing to another view. Otherwise, really polished, good luck!
- h34t 14y agoAh, thanks for catching that!
- rhizome 14y agoNice resurrection of Forum2000! Props. http://randomfoo.net/junk/200402/xalton.forum2000.org/matrix/forum_hof_questions.html http://randomfoo.net/junk/200402/xalton.forum2000.org/matrix... http://slashdot.org/story/00/08/13/0213225/end-of-an-era-forum-2000-closes http://slashdot.org/story/00/08/13/0213225/end-of-an-era-for...
- h34t 14y agoOh, fascinating! Thanks for the link.
- yakshaving 14y agoNice work on this! The illustrations are superb -- Sort of reminds me of the "Fake steve jobs", "Fake Grimlock" and that whole set of cool meme-generating twitter feeds. Seems a bit overdesigned/overengineered though right? Do you really need the adlib typeahead? Or did you realize that people needed more constraints than just being able to type whatever they wanted into a box? Seems like you could have an entire conversation between a few famous celebrities (alive or deceased) and then take that conversation page and make it atomic and shareable... and I feel like that would get traction. Just my 2 cents.
- reddickulous 14y agoI want something like this but hooked up to my facebook friends.
- h34t 14y agoI've been playing with that. Haven't got it right yet, though.
- NHQ 14y agoThis is incredible!
- comatose_kid 14y agoWould be cool to allow people to have themselves added + feeding the site text written by them. Oh, and you need Gandhi on there.
- jerf 14y agoWhile I have fun writing in Jerf's voice, I'm not sure why anybody else would want to...
- obliojoe 14y agoI have been playing with this for a few weeks now and I've had some really great conversations with people I don't know, using the vocabulary of people who are not me. Surreal and addictive.
- minikomi 14y agoThis is really fun! I kind of would like to be able to select a few different "expressions" from the character I choose to emphasize the tone of what they say.
- mdonahoe 14y agoThis rules. I don't like the text input system.
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- yycom 14y agoTutorial doesn't work in ios