Published in M+ Labs·Sep 25, 2019Exploring the M+ Collections through ColourDan Catt is a lead engineer at Micah Walter Studio who is working closely with M+ to design and build the M+ API (api.mplus.org.hk), a key part of M+’s open access approach. The M+ API powers the M+ Collections Beta website, enabling M+ to dynamically display its collections’ content online…Design8 min read
Published in M+ Labs·Sep 25, 2019用顏色探索M+藏品Dan Catt是數碼工作室Micah Walter Studio的首席工程師，現與M+緊密合作，設計並建立M+公共應用程式介面（API，網址為api.mplus.org.hk），這是M+「開放取用」計劃的重要一環。M+ API支援M+藏品系列網頁測試版，讓藏品能以隨時更新的方式在網上展示。現在，開放數據集已放到M+ API上讓公眾使用。如想瀏覽及探索Dan在文中使用的顏色元數據，請到api.mplus.org.hk或github.com/mplusmuseum/collections-data。 今年初，M+在某個週末舉行了第二屆黑客松，並發佈博物館最新的開放數據，讓大眾有機會一窺究竟。 數據是很有趣的東西，多少不一，形式各異，而且其格式總是不符合你所需！數據的來源可以很不同，有些有其一貫格式，有些則沒有任何格式可言。當M+不斷整理已在其館藏和繼續新增的藏品，所得的相關數據就會進入一個數據大熔爐，需要很多人力物力去與之周旋，以從中梳理出一些邏輯和條理來。中文8 min read
Nov 13, 2017Minusomnia, the cartoon bot that slowly devoured itself.There’s supposed to be a blog post that goes along with these images, but I just haven’t found the time to finish it yet. This is the… tl/dr version: I wrote a bot that consumed the news & twitter and over time ate it’s own tail, all the while producing daily “cartoons”. In the end I had to stop the year long project after just three months due to the bot malfunctioning with greater regularity and in an increasingly dramatic fashion. Read this, if you will, as the illustrated story of an AI slowly having a meltdown.AI7 min read
Published in Chatbots Life·Feb 17, 2017Markov Chaining Trump“What if”, I thought “I put the transcript of Donald Trump’s 17th of Feb 2017 press conference into a Markov chain. I wonder what the result will be?” Which later had me tweeting out this… …you can see the results for yourself at the brand spanking new… Trump Transcript…Machine Learning4 min read
Published in Chatbots Life·Feb 17, 2017Fifteen modifications later, he threw it into her fantasies — The Warren Ellis Gun Machine remixSo I stripped the DRM off Warren Ellis’s Gun Machine, crunched the text and threw it into the Markov Chain engine. You can see the results here: revdancatt.github.io/CAT782-remixing-ellis As I already have the code set up pretty well for consuming new text it’s fun to put different things in and…Machine Learning9 min read
Published in Chatbots Life·Feb 17, 2017Notes on remixing Noon, generative text and Markov chains.I wanted to throw down some notes about the work/play I’ve been doing around remixing Jeff Noon’s books. Also I promised to explain what the above image was all about. It all starts way back when I first fell in love with Mark V Shaney, who I discovered via an…Markov Chains6 min read
Dec 16, 2016Conference EatersThis is how tech conferences work, a group of high priests spread across the globe co-ordinate to create gatherings for the believers. On appointed days believers are ushered into temples of learning, excitedly sitting ready for their minds to be consumed and souls uploaded to the network. Then the anointed…Conference6 min read
Published in Kaleida·Dec 15, 2016Roses are red, Violets are blue, Computers writing poetry is something we probably shouldn’t do.Sometimes over at Kaleida, while elbow deep in data with Python chugging along with various Natural Language Parsing (NLP) experiments, you need a little break, and so I figured it’d be nice if the computer sent me short poems it found as it searched through the news. I was initially…Poetry4 min read
Published in Kaleida·Dec 12, 2016The Many Related Concepts of a “Donald Trump”Part of what we do at Kaleida is dig around a whole bunch of news articles from a whole bunch of sources (see previous posts for more information) and try to make sense of which ones align with others and which ones are out on their own. When enough similar…Politics6 min read
Dec 7, 2016Track listing for Jean-Michel Jarre’s Albums; Oxygene, Oxygene 2 & Oxygene 3 (in order).Oxygene, Pt. 1 Oxygene, Pt. 2 Oxygene, Pt. 3 Oxygene, Pt. 4 Oxygene, Pt. 5 Oxygene, Pt. 6 Oxygene, Pt. 7 Oxygene, Pt. 8 Oxygene, Pt. 9 Oxygene, Pt. 10 Oxygene, Pt. 11 Oxygene, Pt. 12 Oxygene, Pt. 13 Oxygene, Pt. 14 Oxygene, Pt. 15 Oxygene, Pt. 16 Oxygene, Pt. 17 Oxygene, Pt. 18 Oxygene, Pt. 19 Oxygene, Pt. 20Music1 min read
