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I posted some updates to the Lonely Girl Rach project today. Including some more specific numbers, word counts, and an updated word cloud (I left her running overnight and used around 14 hours of logs, rather than the original 1 hour).
This was a fun way to spend a weekend I’d have otherwise wasted playing games or watching films. I might try and do something like this on a more regular basis, at least until I start university and find myself with no spare time whatsoever.
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Weekends are boring, so today I set myself a project to stave off boredom. This is part of the result.
I downloaded Pyborg, and set it up to join 6 of the most active sex-oriented IRC channels on Dalnet. Pyborg is an AI chat bot that supposedly uses a Markov Chain algorithm to formulate ostensibly coherent responses based on previous input — if you’re not familiar, google it.
I then let it idle — under the alias “lonelygirlrach” — in them for an hour, and logged all the private messages she received. This word cloud represents the 150 most common words uttered in the “conversations” that took place between lonelygirlrach and numerous horny men in that time. I don’t know exactly how many private messages she got; the format of the logs makes it difficult to tell at a glance, but I’d estimate around 25 unique nicknames are accounted for.
As you can see, there are very few surprises. “Fuck”, “asl”, “hi”, and “cock” are all staples of the sex-starved man. “Cam” and “MSN” have good showings too — in most of the exchanges I observed, they wanted to switch to MSN Messenger ASAP to take advantage of its webcam support.
The most interesting thing is that in an hour, in at least 25 conversations, hardly anyone guessed she was a bot. The word “bot” was not even frequent enough to be included in the cloud, and a quick search through the logs reveals only two people that decided definitively that lonelygirlrach was nothing but a computer program. And one of them continued to pester her for chat regardless.
She’s still in there now, getting harassed. Poor thing. You can see some of my favourite exchanges here.
And this concludes part one of what bored students do for fun.
Zoya found the photos from the time I made cookies with my ex-ladyfriend! They were a complete disaster, of course. (By the way, the dog in the top-right corner is supposed to be Puma from Gitaroo Man, a game we were both obsessed with at the time. And I don’t think it was supposed to look like it was shitting, either.) And, as one of my friends has noted before, the cookie cast in the image of her does indeed appear to have a small penis.
So glad no one reads Tumblr at the weekend.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Parts & Labor - “Nowhere’s Nigh”
Their album, Receivers, is out October 21st on Secretly Canadian. (Be prepared to want to gouge your eyes out if you visit their website.)
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Dur dur dur dur dur I’m friends with a guy who’s a sandwich! Everybody feel bad for me!
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.] “Mark Ronson In Studio”, a 2-minute interlude off Top Ranking. Mark Ronson and Santogold talk about a “Creator” cover (and his gurnal, cute). I’m not a fan of Mark Ronson, but I’d like to hear this.Photo
I can’t tell if this is spam, or if someone not very smart really thinks I might add photos of Japanese boy bands to Custom Themes. If it is spam, they’re learning fast; they’re abusing a feature that isn’t even public yet! A couple of the posts on that person’s (non-English) tumblelog seem somewhat spammy, but innocent enough overall, I think. Weird, anyway.
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