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NaPoGenMo commit: April 12, 2024 at 10:04AM

Published by bryantohara on April 12, 2024

I’m rethinking the architecture a bit. Calls to DataFetcher to retrieve audio get saved to its local directory before being uploaded to azure blob storage. This seems like too much travel across the network, so I’m creating the audio from VideoProducer. Files will be saved to the local directory, and after video rendering, they will be deleted.
By Bryant O’Hara
April 12, 2024 at 10:04AM
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NaPoGenMo commit: April 11, 2024 at 10:40AM

Published by bryantohara on April 11, 2024

Updated DataFetcher function app to query Freesound.org and OpenWeatherMap.

DataFetcher can now upload retrieved Freesound file to blob storage with filename of {guid}.mp3.
By Bryant O’Hara
April 11, 2024 at 10:40AM
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Overthinking Much?

Published by bryantohara on April 7, 2024

I’ve spent the past couple of days just writing out plans for how to put together my project for National Poetry Generation Month. And to be honest, I’m getting to the point where I feel like I’m overthinking things.

I’ve written so much and doodled so much that I think that if I don’t actually just start putting code to IDE, I’m never going to get this thing done.

So let’s just get started.

NaPoGenMo 2024 API design notes - pt 1
Possible ways to separate the functions for the project
NaPoGenMo 2024 API design notes - pt 2
What do I want the LLM to do? Regardless, this project requires a human to remain in the loop.
NaPoGenMo 2024 API design notes - pt 3
Honing the flow of data. I want to take cues from the Oulipo movement and computer poetry research.
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NaPoGenMo 2024 Notes: A Poetic Digestive System

Published by bryantohara on April 4, 2024

I had this line of thought of emulating a digestive process:

  • Maceration (chewing up data/text – ingestion?)
  • Digestion (breaking down/transformation)
  • Extraction (refining)
  • Excretion (discarding waste)

Also put down some ideas for ways to take the text apart.

Poetic "digestor" notes
Poetic “digestor” notes
Potential methods for processing text
Potential methods for processing text
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Throwing Boots at AI APIs

Published by bryantohara on April 4, 2024

For National Poetry Generation Month (NaPoGenMo) 2024, I’m going to aim to play with throwing different data at one or more LLMs, then creating functions inspired by the Oulipo movement make something that is at least interesting in planning if not execution 🙂

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Happy Poetry Writing -and- Poetry Generation Month 2024!

Published by bryantohara on April 2, 2024
Alrighty then – how do I do this?

April is not only National/Global Poetry Writing Month (Na/GloPoWriMo), but also National Poetry Generation Month (NaPoGenMo).

For those unfamiliar with either, the latter is a challenge to spend the month of April writing code that generates a poem. One has to share at least one poem and also the source code at the end.

The former is a challenge to write a poem every day for the month of April.

Now one might expect me to ask myself, “Which one should I participate in?”

Answer: Why make this an either/or thing?

Luckily, I have ideas on how to do both without cheating at either.

And to be honest, I need to do both. I’ve been reading, writing, and speaking about poetry and the use of AI for at about a year now, and I’ve been experimenting with ways to express myself using it and other tools in the broader world of computer poetry. I have just begun to start putting thought to code, and demonstrate what can be done.

This exploration has provided new insights into my own style and workflow, which I shall display along with the generated works to compare and contrast. Each poem will have an indicator of whether I created it or used my code to create it.

I aim to get weird, folks. Hope you enjoy. Comments closed