Had serious problems downloading anaconda that took several days to resolve. Ultimately had to be guided by apple customer service for 2 hours on how to delete the random user accounts that were on my laptop. The customer service guy at apple said “I am shocked this computer is functioning at all.”

“I am shocked this computer is functioning at all”

-Apple Guy, 2023

Then I made a thesis description generator based on my personal interests and explorations so far:

The filler words “the relationship between” is pretty weak and not yielding meaningful results. I need to rethink how I’m relating the actual concepts. Currently the input before and after the “the relationship between” are from the same dictionary of options because I wanted to throw all the concepts in the same bucket but it’s not working.

There’s also something interesting about how being able to generate many of these at once makes the words feel so meaningless and actually makes me want to eliminate options. Maybe a good practice for thesis ideation would be to generate a bunch of these, and the words that feel wrong or boring when they are chosen should be eliminated.

So I got rid of the words that made me feel clever when I thought of them but had no real value. I switched around the first dictionary and the second and started getting results that didn’t sound just like a bunch of filler words for no reason.

I have almost moved on from the trauma of thinking for a full minute that the apple guy had completely wiped everything off my computer in the process of removing the random extra user accounts off my computer, including one named “Carroll.”

“Hmm. I don’t remember making any mistakes”

-Apple Guy, 2023

Who is Carroll? Not even omnipotent apple guy knows.

Anyways.

Here are my first experiments with code generated poetry. I started by using the given example:

I put a bunch of adverbs at the beginning and felt cute and cheeky doing so. It only contributed to the jumbled word mush feeling of the output sentences so I decided to cut those.

As a philosophy major and overall annoying person, I agonize in carving every sentence out precisely. Each sentence I write feels like I’m inventing it word by word, rather than based on a formula I’ve come to understand. I’m surprised that I know how to write a sentence every time I do so. This sentence generation experiment is interesting because it made me consider more the formula of a sentence, and explore the inherent rules I know when to obey or ignore, but cannot articulate as a native English speaker.

Passively internal archive of CRT TV lipsticks juxtaposing soul perception is interesting but only because I put lipsticks in as a medium. I had the idea a long time ago to make a series of impractical lipsticks and then later started thinking about making myself in lipstick form. This was the most creative option so obviously the result is the most interesting. This process of idea generation is good if you have lots of interests and lots of established mediums and need ideas on how to use those but maybe not so valuable if you have 5 somewhat solid, slightly unrelated thesis ideas and you need to choose one of them.