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EROFT: Meditation 3
This week I combined selenium web browsing with scraping and NLP to create a wikipedia prophecy generator, or wiki-omancy. When thinking about “-omancy” possibilities I broke down the typical structure – it involves some user input/action, some randomness, and a … Continue reading
EROFT: Meditation 2
Invent your own “oracle deck.” Your deck doesn’t have to be a physical object (though it can be). Keeping in mind the formal characteristics of cleromancy discussed in class, consider how digital media can complicate/diminish/augment the parts and processes of … Continue reading
EROFT: Meditation 1
I’ll be the first to say that my ritual is rather…boring. But if there’s anything I learned during my time in anthropology, it’s the things we find the most mundane that tell us the most about our value systems and … Continue reading
Understanding Networks: Wireshark Assignment
I did a couple different packet captures while figuring out how to use Wireshark. Doing it over the course of a couple hours made me appreciate the enormity of information passing through our networks – when I tried to shut … Continue reading
Learning Machines: Encoder
For our first assignment we were asked to create an encoder – something that would take a string and shorten the amount of data in the string, from Wikipedia: For example, consider a screen containing plain black text on a … Continue reading
RWET, Assignment 1
I’d been filing away text ideas all week long. I thought I wanted to work off of a poem, but as I was going through the python exercises I’d thought it would be more interesting to take a longer text … Continue reading