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National Novel Generation Month, 2015 edition.
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A Collection of Failed #NaNoGenMo Ideas #153

Open muffinista opened 9 years ago

muffinista commented 9 years ago

This is not my main submission, but I'm still hashing out how I want my primary idea to work. Along the way I've had a few false starts and I joked on Twitter that it would be funny if my submission was a log of all my failed work.

So, here's a generative version of that.

https://github.com/muffinista/NaNoGenMo2015/blob/master/failed-nanogenmo.md

The code is pretty simple, it generates a random title using the Wordnik API, picks a reason for failure from a short list I wrote myself, adds a few adjectives also via Wordnik, and picks a random algorithm from a list I curated via poking around on http://dbpedia.org/page/Category:Algorithms

The output is nothing amazing but it has a few funny moments, and was a fun warmup project. It was also fun to automate a list of failure reasons, since I fail a lot and there's a pretty good chance I'll fail at my actual idea.

Enjoy!

enkiv2 commented 9 years ago

NaNaNoGenMoEnGenMo ;-)

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:02 PM Colin Mitchell notifications@github.com wrote:

This is not my main submission, but I'm still hashing out how I want my primary idea to work. Along the way I've had a few false starts and I joked on Twitter that it would be funny if my submission was a log of all my failed work.

So, here's a generative version of that.

https://github.com/muffinista/NaNoGenMo2015/blob/master/failed-nanogenmo.md

The code https://github.com/muffinista/NaNoGenMo2015/blob/master/failed-nanogenmo.rb is pretty simple, it generates a random title using the Wordnik API, picks a reason for failure from a short list I wrote myself, adds a few adjectives also via Wordnik, and picks a random algorithm from a list I curated via poking around on http://dbpedia.org/page/Category:Algorithms

The output is nothing amazing but it has a few funny moments, and was a fun warmup project. It was also fun to automate a list of failure reasons, since I fail a lot and there's a pretty good chance I'll fail at my actual idea.

Enjoy!

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015/issues/153.

MichaelPaulukonis commented 9 years ago

ha-hah!

hugovk commented 9 years ago

Good stuff!

Those programming languages and algorithms are good candidates for Corpora (if not already there).

muffinista commented 9 years ago

Looks like it's not there, I'll submit a PR for that now.