Comments for Post Position https://nickm.com/post Nick Montfort Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:57:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Comment on All the Way for the Win by An Auto-Interview about All the Way for the Win – Post Position https://nickm.com/post/2025/01/all-the-way-for-the-win/comment-page-1/#comment-990730 Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:56:33 +0000 https://nickm.com/post/?p=5257#comment-990730 […] Update, 2025-01-25: I wonder if this breaks the record for longest time between original blog post and update? After about 15 years of work, All the Way for the Win is complete and has been published. It wasn’t a joke! I sense from reading this blog post that my work on the project back in early March 2013 was frustrating me. That happened more than once. But the book’s out & available for purchase, and I’ve written a little about it in a recent blog post. […]

]]> Comment on The OUTPUT Anthology is Out! by A Glance at NaNoGenMo 2024 – Post Position https://nickm.com/post/2024/11/output_out/comment-page-1/#comment-989583 Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:27:23 +0000 https://nickm.com/post/?p=5217#comment-989583 […] it, read from it, and hear people’s reactions. More information about Output can be found in my previous blog post, which I’m updating to reflect upcoming […]

]]> Comment on One-Line C64 BASIC Music by World of Commodore – Best Recipes Ever https://nickm.com/post/2010/07/one-line-c64-basic-music/comment-page-1/#comment-988084 Mon, 02 Dec 2024 23:26:16 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=996#comment-988084 […] develop your own software. Passing this code did not generate any music though and failed. Checkout Nickm.com who discusses this topic […]

]]> Comment on The OUTPUT Anthology is Out! by Thoughts on NaNoGenMo 2024 – James On Programming https://nickm.com/post/2024/11/output_out/comment-page-1/#comment-988081 Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:42:07 +0000 https://nickm.com/post/?p=5217#comment-988081 […] 22 books were completed this year and I’m looking forward to reviewing them. I have an idea for a different approach next year and will do some research in the meantime (starting with Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Monfort’s Output Anthology) […]

]]> Comment on A Note on the Word “Zork” by David https://nickm.com/post/2010/01/a-note-on-the-word-zork/comment-page-1/#comment-977345 Sun, 12 May 2024 07:39:01 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=665#comment-977345 It’s worth noting that the first print appearance of the word “Zork” appears in 1935.

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/353988-possible-origin-of-the-word-zork-lil-abner-april-21-1935/

“In his April 21, 1935 Sunday Li’l Abner comic, Al Cap runs a second spin off story alongside the Abner tale. This side story features a character names Washable Jones who is off on a series of weird dream adventures. On this day, though, Washable runs into ZORK – some sort of huge, man-eating monster thing that lives in dungeon. “
Li’l Abner introduced a LOT of pop culture references… I can see a nonsense word lingering through the 40s-50s, and being carried over as slang later. I can’t prove it, mind you, but…

]]> Comment on A Gysin & Sommerville Question by Nick Montfort https://nickm.com/post/2014/11/a-gysin-sommerville-question/comment-page-1/#comment-971159 Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:26:19 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=4109#comment-971159 Thank you! Scholarly and publication updates:

David Pocknee’s site The Permutated Poems of Brion Gysin.
Permutations, published by DABA in 2022.

]]> Comment on A Gysin & Sommerville Question by j https://nickm.com/post/2014/11/a-gysin-sommerville-question/comment-page-1/#comment-971154 Tue, 19 Sep 2023 06:38:48 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=4109#comment-971154 Came across this post whilst trying to answer the same question – it seemed to me unlikely that Ian Sommerville as an undergrad student and in 1960 would have been able to create a computer program. In an interview with G.G. Lemaire published in French (Il y a des poètes partout, Revue d’Ésthétiques, 1975) Gysin says that the poems “were programmed on a Honeywell computer in 1965”. He doesn’t give the model but this seems to confirm that the program at least dates from that year.

]]> Comment on Gomringer’s Untitled Poem [“silencio”], an Unlikely Sonnet by 15 Concrete Poem Examples That Speak Beyond Words - Teaching Expertise https://nickm.com/post/2019/07/gomringers-silencio-an-unlikely-sonnet/comment-page-1/#comment-970099 Wed, 02 Aug 2023 03:56:45 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=4775#comment-970099 […] Learn More: Nick Montfort […]

]]> Comment on Advice Concerning the Increase in AI-Assisted Writing by Evaluating an AI Education solution – Doc Wilson's Education Blog https://nickm.com/post/2023/01/advice-concerning-the-increase-in-ai-assisted-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-968494 Fri, 19 May 2023 22:06:53 +0000 https://nickm.com/post/?p=5142#comment-968494 […] N. (2023, January 10). Advice Concerning the Increase in AI-Assisted Writing. Post Position. https://nickm.com/post/2023/01/advice-concerning-the-increase-in-ai-assisted-writing/Nolan, B. (2023, March 29). AI systems like ChatGPT could impact 300 million full-time jobs […]

]]> Comment on Gomringer’s Untitled Poem [“silencio”], an Unlikely Sonnet by kaiden https://nickm.com/post/2019/07/gomringers-silencio-an-unlikely-sonnet/comment-page-1/#comment-967858 Wed, 26 Apr 2023 16:22:28 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=4775#comment-967858 Add a little twist to the poem as a sonnet

]]> Comment on Advice Concerning the Increase in AI-Assisted Writing by AI and chatGPT links – Writing Studies and Rhetoric Blog https://nickm.com/post/2023/01/advice-concerning-the-increase-in-ai-assisted-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-966685 Wed, 01 Mar 2023 17:43:56 +0000 https://nickm.com/post/?p=5142#comment-966685 […] Advice Concerning the Increase in AI-Assisted Writing […]

]]> Comment on Advice Concerning the Increase in AI-Assisted Writing by Nick Montfort https://nickm.com/post/2023/01/advice-concerning-the-increase-in-ai-assisted-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-965949 Fri, 27 Jan 2023 07:18:55 +0000 https://nickm.com/post/?p=5142#comment-965949 Arun Rath interviewed me on GBH’s All Things Considered about this topic: ChatGPT in Higher Education.

]]> Comment on Advice Concerning the Increase in AI-Assisted Writing by MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education | MIT Admissions https://nickm.com/post/2023/01/advice-concerning-the-increase-in-ai-assisted-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-965883 Tue, 24 Jan 2023 16:57:37 +0000 https://nickm.com/post/?p=5142#comment-965883 […] Professors Nick Montfort and Ed Schiappa wrote Advice Concerning the Increase in AI-Assisted Writing, which I read with great interest while working on my syllabus this spring, and which they gave me […]

]]> Comment on Megawatt by NaNoGenMo – [ ] ground zero https://nickm.com/post/2014/11/megawatt/comment-page-1/#comment-965753 Thu, 19 Jan 2023 20:06:01 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=4106#comment-965753 […] Read (.pdf) / Learn More […]

]]> Comment on Advice Concerning the Increase in AI-Assisted Writing by eLearn @ UCalgary https://nickm.com/post/2023/01/advice-concerning-the-increase-in-ai-assisted-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-965597 Wed, 11 Jan 2023 22:51:41 +0000 https://nickm.com/post/?p=5142#comment-965597 […] Advice Concerning the Increase in AI-Assisted Writing by Professors Edward Schiappa and Nick Montfort for MIT […]

]]> Comment on World Clock by Získá um?lá inteligence sv?j knižní fanklub: bude nový Harry Potter nebo Pán prsten? psaný jazykem AI? – Mediální proroci https://nickm.com/post/2013/11/world-clock/comment-page-1/#comment-957617 Sun, 03 Apr 2022 11:47:49 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=3365#comment-957617 […] Kniha zaznamenává bez v?tší spojitosti r?zné ?asové záznamy s krátkým textem z celého sv?t?. Tím bylo dokázáno, že smysl pro ?as lze vštípit i p?i psaní kódu po?íta?em. Kniha je navíc zdarma k p?e?tení. […]

]]> Comment on A 6 byte Commodore 64 Demo by Nick Montfort https://nickm.com/post/2021/08/a-6-byte-commodore-64-demo/comment-page-1/#comment-955615 Tue, 18 Jan 2022 02:21:00 +0000 https://nickm.com/post/?p=5095#comment-955615 I was fascinated to find recently that way back in 2002, White Flame released a demo called 4byte that uses the same trick of modifying CHRGET to create the same sort of loop. And the demo is the same size: 4 bytes + 2 bytes load address.

So I was almost 20 years too late with this particular trick! I did improve the effect so that there is a more complex type of pulsing. But I must admit that some plagiarism by anticipation took place.

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