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Reminds me of Mike Jittlov's vehicle in Wizard of Speed and Time (1988)

I assume this is a double-bluff and the blog post WAS written by an AI o_O ?

I don't get it (and I'd call this cumulative not incremental)

Why not at least wait until the key is complete - what's the use in a partial key?

Perhaps we could ever so slightly dissuade malware actors by assigning less desirable names.

E.g. instead of 'BlackLotus' => 'LameEffort-12'

I put an episode up for each star-sign this weekend.

Most of them have had a 40-50 listens but the one linked here has 400+ listens!

Listened to a few podcasts, read a few - then tried to come up with some combinations that (I hoped) were funny :)

Here's all of the current 'starts' for the main prediction:

(Note they're all pretty non commital - so anything could come next)

A bite from a wild animal

A financial matter coming to a head

Completion of a long delayed task

A seemingly generous gesture

A sudden realisation

An agreement with a headstrong peer

An unavoidable slowdown

Being pulled between two emotional options

A sudden eruption of feelings

Investigating a proverbial - light in the woods

Involvement with a purely privte project

Making peace with the past

The chance of a big win

Todays socialising

The date was my mistake - the 'Aquariums' was for LOLs. (see also 'Librarians' and similar)

It's prerecorded snippets that came out of my mouth ;)

Totally agree. I think we're probably only a year or so off TTS that can put some proper intonation into a sentence - hopefully then they'll be indistiguishable from live speech.

I've tried to listen to books with today's TTS and it soon becomes really grating (To my ears at least). It only needs the tinyest slip every few sentences and you can't listen any more.

Sure.

For dates etc - you got it. I think from memory it would be 'Wednesday' + 'the 18th' + 'of' + 'may...' + '20' + '22'

For the narrative speech it would be more words in a file. There are plenty of files (EDIT: just checked 350ish files that cover all the variations of script that can be generated at the moment)

In general the TTS - part of the project is the 'art of the almost possible' (if TTS engines sounded really good - I'd have just used one of the shelf)

Time to start lobbying for a 'generated'=true/false flag on RSS feeds?

Also, I promise to only churn out inane content for LOLs.

Yeah my bad - trust the human in the loop to put date in wrong.

As to the point, its programming practice, perhaps a stepping stone to more elaborate content-generation systems, and jolly good fun too.

In a parallel to email spam-bots, we get personal agents which (by your choice) filter out the generated content and make sure you only get the real deal.

The fight is real.

The generation of the 'script' uses a kind of L-System - like production rules. There's a big file along the lines of:

[the podcast] = [intro] [main body] [outro]

[main body] = [main prediction] [lucky colours] [alibi] etc

// these rules finally break down to text, eg

[main prediction start] = "A bite from a wild animal" or "A chance encounter"§

So the script has lots of combinations and is semi random - but it should always make sense.