Everything you wanted to know about text but were afraid to ask.
For assignment 2 I updated WordUp to replace “curse words” with g-rated alternatives. I also stream lined the cde a bit by adding a funtion to split and store lyric lines. I almost forgot, I also moved from an Array to Arraylist.
WordUpNew.java
DeLaSoul-TheGrindDate.txt
FatBoys-AllYouCanEat.txt
JayZ-99Problems.txt
JayZ-RideorDie.txt
KanyeWest-HeardEmSay.txt
For this week, I modified my previous weeks program, so that it now takes 6 words, and then finds words of the same number of characters and replaces them. I entered the words:
read 86357 words from bible.txt
Enter a word: super
Enter another word: saturate
Enter another word: zero
Enter another word: frames
Enter another word: sun
Enter another word: naked
Here […]
For this week’s foray into regular expressions, I mash up some records of Enron employee emails (thanks to Raffi Krikorian for knowledge about this public record) with a book published in 1919 titled The Age of Big Business; A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry by Burton J. Hendrick. Several regular expressions are at work […]
Summary and source code for my assignment this week can be viewed here. This is basically an extension of my assignment for the first week with some refinement made possible by regular expressions (in Perl).
Post-structuralism. Please god make it stop. It’s not that I disagree or dislike what Kirschenbaum has to say, it’s that his exhausting essay is making an obvious point as if there’s a revolution on (I know, it was written 10 years ago.. but still). It seems like every generation the idea that the materiality of […]
I didn’t get as far as I would have liked this week. I got tripped up for a while on just figuring out why java doesn’t want to compile on my pc. And then once that was figured out, I couldn’t get my program to do exactly what I wanted. But anyway, here is the […]
Comments on the reading:
The text Machine Visions: towards a poetics of Artificial Intelligence just came in time as I was questioning myself if we were going to cover the use of text in its more aesthetics sense, leaning towards more into typography than mining text. So I want to share some thoughts on this subject.
In […]
It’s all right here.
I want to refine this program more and more throughout the semester, but here is a proof of concept of BureauCrap, a PHP script that searches documents and replaces pretentious euphemisms with straightforward terms. It’s inspired by my days as a researcher and writer for the government. The example used here is the WMD Commission’s […]
Played around with the Harry Potter books this week…
read on.
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