NaNoGenMo/Creative NLP Slack channel?

[tsdubose]

Is there a Slack group or something similar for creative NLP? I'm in the middle of my first big NLP project, and it would be really great to have experienced people to sound ideas off/complain to.

I'll also accept a Twitter hashtag that people respond to.

If people are interested, but this doesn't exist yet, I'm happy to make it.

[hugovk]

Have a look at http://slack.botally.net/ and #botALLY on Twitter.

[enkiv2]

The botally slack (https://botally.slack.com/) overlaps with nanogenmo people quite a bit, and some people there do language processing as part of their projects, although the focus is on short-form generation (tweet-length).

There's a generative art slack (https://botally.slack.com/) is similar, but with less of a focus on tweet-length material. It's pretty dead, though.

Botwiki's slack actually has more NLP because it's focused on interactive stuff, but botwiki in general is pretty heavily focused on business stuff rather than art stuff so the creative angle is less foregrounded.

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Is there a Slack group or something similar for creative NLP? I'm in the middle of my first big NLP project, and it would be really great to have experienced people to sound ideas off/complain to.

I'll also accept a Twitter hashtag that people respond to.

If people are interested, but this doesn't exist yet, I'm happy to make it.

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[enkiv2]

Sorry, the genart slack is at https://generativeart.slack.com

On Sat, Apr 7, 2018, 9:19 AM John Ohno john.ohno@gmail.com wrote:

The botally slack (https://botally.slack.com/) overlaps with nanogenmo people quite a bit, and some people there do language processing as part of their projects, although the focus is on short-form generation (tweet-length).

There's a generative art slack (https://botally.slack.com/) is similar, but with less of a focus on tweet-length material. It's pretty dead, though.

Botwiki's slack actually has more NLP because it's focused on interactive stuff, but botwiki in general is pretty heavily focused on business stuff rather than art stuff so the creative angle is less foregrounded.

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 3:47 PM Travis notifications@github.com wrote:

Is there a Slack group or something similar for creative NLP? I'm in the middle of my first big NLP project, and it would be really great to have experienced people to sound ideas off/complain to.

I'll also accept a Twitter hashtag that people respond to.

If people are interested, but this doesn't exist yet, I'm happy to make it.

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[hugovk]

The Botwiki Slack is now called Botmakers:

https://botmakers.org/

[tra38]

There's a generative art slack ... but with less of a focus on tweet-length material. It's pretty dead, though.

I'm kinda curious why that is. Is it just because programmers tend to prefer "#botally" and it's all network effects? Or is it due to short-form text generation being much easier to do (and thus more innovation and creativity in that line) while other forms of generation (long-form text generation or other forms of computer-generated artworks) are more difficult to pull off (which means there's not really much to talk about)? I haven't really talked in that slack chat because I don't really have much to talk about...and if everyone in that chat feels the same way, then, obviously, that can lead to a dead chatroom.

Is it a good idea to try to revive the "generative art" slack chat? Or should we just bury the corpse?

[enkiv2]

I think it's just network effect. Everybody who is in the genart slack is also in the botally slack, so it feels redundant in many cases, & the stuff the genart slack covers that botally doesn't (like longer-form music generation) isn't terribly popular.

As for killing it, it's up to Michael what he wants to do with it.

On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 10:31 PM Tariq Ali notifications@github.com wrote:

There's a generative art slack ... but

with less of a focus on tweet-length material. It's pretty dead, though.

I'm kinda curious why that is. Is it just because programmers tend to prefer "#botally" and it's all network effects? Or is it due to short-form text generation being much easier to do (and thus more innovation and creativity in that line) while other forms of generation (long-form text generation or other forms of computer-generated artworks) are more difficult to pull off (which means there's not really much to talk about)?

Is it a good idea to try to revive the "generative art" slack chat? Or should we just bury the corpse?

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[zfpp]

discord, anyone?