Sept 1, 2016
Yesterday I published a small piece of software to Small Wide World's git to very little fanfare. It was a generalization of a bad piece of software I wrote the day before. It uses NLTK to perform a simple task: parse a simple sentence which follows the form "subject verb object" with optional additional information starting with "because". Examples of this grammar include:
GnuPG is software
IRC is a protocol
software implements a protocol
Javantea is human
AI3 is software
Javantea wrote AI3
Javantea writes software
Javantea writes English
Javantea reads German
Javantea reads Japanese
Javantea reads Portuguese
Javantea reads Spanishnlp1.py creates this graph of the relationships:
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Aug 13-14, 2016
Today I spent a few hours sewing a piece in my Luffy costume. It isn't completely finished but you can see the results below. What needed to be sewn? The shirt was originally a tank top from American Apparel. While Luffy wearing a red tank top is absolutely acceptable in a pinch, it needs to be a 3 button vest to suit say Season 3 Episode 78 where they leave the island of the giants and Nami is sick, so they go to the winter island.
If you're incredibly lazy, sewing isn't necessary for this cosplay. If you don't intend to wash the shirt or wear it more than a handful of times (shame, shame!), then a cut shirt will actually look reasonably authentic. A really good reason to sew a cosplay is to reduce the likelihood of fraying. Many fabrics when cut will fray. The cotton from this shirt almost certainly will fray in the washer. If you've never sewn a garment, you probably didn't know that because a part of the professional sewing business is ensuring that doesn't happen. Exceptions exist, but Luffy's shirt is most certainly not frayed and you won't want yours to be either.
Read more »AltSci Philosophy Journal is currently not being updated regularly. Since there is no content, there is no site. However, I have written some mediocre essays in the form of blogs elsewhere. I plan to link to ones that catch my eye while I work on updating and referencing them in various bibliographies.
Repair, Don't Replace
Open Letter to Jim McDermott and Congresspeople
Why Doesn't Money Make You Happy?
Control
New PGP Key
Plans for March 2014
Drums 2
Drums
Insecure by Design
Brasil and New York
Sometimes
Explanation Needed
Wealthy Vampires: The Prophets of Non-Profit
Counterfeiting Bytecoins for Fun and Profit
Territorial Instinct
Success
悪政
The Rule of Law and more
Man 1a
Singularity and You!
Misery
Uncopiable
Feline Philosophy of Mutual Self-Interest
Talk
Age or Timex's Change
An Open Letter to Deutscher Bundestag
RE: StGB § 202 aka Anti-hacking law
Planet of the Apes
On things that matter when you're plastered.
Research and Development into Artificial Intelligence
What is it Like [in Japan]? or Coolhunter Javantea
100 Thoughts Thought Tonight
The Watchmaker Argument or Infallible Design
Blogging Without a Computer
Money and Capitalism
Fountainhead
Negative Entropy aka. Extropy
Tyrrany in the USA
Core considerations of Anarchism
Superheroes
I like to shop around before making a purchase.
Free your mind
Shameless
Spam
Against Hedonism 2004-11-30
