Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 272.
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    [1]    From: David Hoover 
           Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.270: randomising? (56)

    [2]    From: Geoffrey Rockwell 
           Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.270: randomising? (13)


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        Date: 2019-09-24 12:43:48+00:00
        From: David Hoover 
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.270: randomising?

Willard,

If you don't mind a relatively micro-example, see my "The Microanalysis of
Style Variation,"Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Volume 32, Issue
suppl_2, December 2017, Pages ii17-ii30

 https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqx022

In that article, I argue for the possible uses and dangers of randomizing
parts of literary texts as a way of smoothing out unwanted effects of
variations in style.

Best,
David Hoover
--
 David L. Hoover, Professor of English  NYU Eng. Dept. 212-998-8832
 https://wp.nyu.edu/davidlhoover/

Adolph slid back into the thicket and lay down behind a fallen log to
see what would happen. Not much ever happened to him but weather.
--Willa Cather


On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 11:48 PM Humanist  wrote:

>                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 270.
>             Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
>                    Hosted by King's Digital Lab
>                 Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org
>
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>
>
>         Date: 2019-09-24 03:32:55+00:00
>         From: Willard McCarty 
>         Subject: randomising
>
> I would be very grateful for examples of computing work in the
> humanities or human sciences that makes use of the machine's
> potential for randomisation, for generating results with a significant
> degree of unpredictability -- 'chaotic' results, if you will. This
> potential was designed in from the beginning, insofar as conditional
> branching and overwriting of instructions cannot be foreseen because
> they may depend on the results of previous calculations, or esp on
> inputs from the world.
>
> Many thanks for a any suggestions.
>
> Yours,
> WM
> --
> Willard McCarty
> Professor emeritus, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College
> London; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
> and Humanist


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        Date: 2019-09-24 04:13:07+00:00
        From: Geoffrey Rockwell 
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.270: randomising?

Dear Willard,

I don’t think this is what you had in mind, but many word cloud tools will
randomly assign colours from a palette to the words rendered and randomly alter
the orientation of the words (horizontal or vertical) when generating the
visualization. Typically it is only the size of the word and location in the
cloud that is based on a measurement of the text.

Yours,

Geoffrey Rockwell




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