Carolyn Lamb

Grad student, Computational Creativity, University of Waterloo. For my fiction writing self, see @xasymptote.

[Carolyn Lamb @celamb01]

Ok but if you're generating artworks using a genetic algorithm then you might not want to use the word "generations" to describe the individual, generated pictures.

[Carolyn Lamb @celamb01]

According to a participant in my study, @UWtwitsong 's poems are the worst computer-generated text they have ever seen.

So... Follow the bot to see what the fuss is about? I'm out of good taglines. :P

[Carolyn Lamb @celamb01]

@jb03hf Thanks!

[Carolyn Lamb @celamb01]

ICYMI: I'm running a study online where you can help evaluate poems that were made by a computer. Both poets and non-poets are welcome to participate. Participation takes less than an hour, and participants are paid.

More details here:
https://t.co/w3xYPFYJSb

[Carolyn Lamb @celamb01]

Yes, this is a subtweet, but given how often this happens, it may as well not be.

[Carolyn Lamb @celamb01]

For the Nth time, people.

"Free speech" does not include freedom to speak without other people protesting.

"Free speech," in fact, specifically includes the right TO protest.

[Carolyn Lamb @celamb01]

"Listen to and consider the ideas before protesting them" sounds good on paper.

In practice, the people protesting are already familiar with the ideas and can already explain to you why they find them abhorrent enough to protest.

[Hazel Anneke Dixon @Nimim]

We should be testing our designs on people who aren't exclusively young, male Computer Science students - how are you going to make an inclusive, awesome design if not? #chi2018 #ProblematicNorms

[Carolyn Lamb @celamb01]

I told @uwtwitsong to write a poem about Starbucks. It decided to call it "NOT A STARBUCKS THING." :P

[Carolyn Lamb @celamb01]

I'm running a study online where you can help evaluate poems that were made by a computer. Both poets and non-poets are welcome to participate. Participation takes less than an hour, and participants are paid.

More details here:
https://t.co/w3xYPFYJSb

[Carolyn Lamb @celamb01]

Hey @recardona - this article made me think of you, in case you haven't seen it yet :) https://t.co/oDes9biNkX

[Carolyn Lamb @celamb01]

@TheRiddlerBot Jabba the Hutt

[Carolyn Lamb @celamb01]

Am I ahead? Am I behind? Am I slacking? WHO KNOWS.

[Carolyn Lamb @celamb01]

Thesis writing is one of these weird things where you can't make accurate predictions about how long different parts of it will take because you've literally never done it before and everyone else who's ever done it has usually only done it once.

[Carolyn Lamb @celamb01]

Latest project (and latest incarnation of my PhD research): I made a bot that tweets poetry based on the news.
https://t.co/8EADoBH9nx

[Carolyn Lamb @celamb01]

@ajodasso I have no advice, but <3

A similar but not-the-same issue is why I stopped keeping my pen name and my "real"/academic name secret from each other. I don't regret it.

[Carolyn Lamb @celamb01]

I don't usually promote my pen-name, non-academic writing from my academic account, but this time it might be of interest to some of you. I wrote a poem about Microsoft's chatbot Tay.
https://t.co/5n5GYg3SMS

(All the TWs that you would normally associate with Tay apply here.)

[Carolyn Lamb @celamb01]

@__alia__ Followed. Or you can drop me a line at c2lamb [at] uwaterloo [dot] ca.

[Carolyn Lamb @celamb01]

@annajordanous Thank you so much!