@swot_perderder, at https://twitter.com/swot_perderder

I wish I could say there’s more to it than this, but that’s all it really needs. Inspired by seeing these things around the internet a handful of times; Know your meme has a good overview.

Why? First, because it’s funny, and second, because it’s funny and kind of shouldn’t be. There must be some wiring in our brain that’s just locked into these things that for some reason finds them hilarious, but I have no idea why. Maybe @Swot_perderder can make a bunch of these and then we can all research which ones are funniest and figure this out a little better. More likely, we’ll just have a bit of a laugh.

Also, this is my “primary” assignment-3 assignment, and the code is on github here.

I developed an automaton architect as a bot. It is called @architectBOT and it is dedicates itself to presenting architecture shapes. Originally, I used the Osmapi to scrap directly from the internet, but I only managed to access the elements directly by their id, so considering a very large, disperse and inconsistent database (many numbers do not exist) it was really expensive. OpenStreetMap is not very complete and sometimes it is very messy, so I had to use famous cities as the data base. Now the bot selects randomly from a group of cities and look for buildings with tags containing “amenity” or other specific names.

This was my secondary project and it is an unfolding of my dataviz. Basically, I am very interested in open source mapping and how it allows us to expand our comprehension of our cities. Automaton architect is promoting a very specific view of the urban tissue (building footprints) that embed important aesthetic and functional attributes.

The shapes and tags are unpredictable and sometimes there are some interesting shapes appearing suddenly on the screen (see the university above) or some strange description.

Unfortunately, my bot just entered twitter world, so it is not famous yet…

@posmobot

yuchi

— posmo (@posmobot) March 3, 2015

Posmo is the perfect twitterbot for hispanic postmodern writers to get the hippest words in their vocabulary. Impress your friends with words you can be sure they’ve never heard before. Never feel like the idiot you are with great words like…

peoce — posmo (@posmobot) March 2, 2015

or the way superior sounding…

faitrofa — posmo (@posmobot) March 1, 2015

or even get some of this…

wawa — posmo (@posmobot) March 2, 2015

 https://github.com/epicjefferson/posmobotound

@crapDrawingsBot: link

“Tweet me 3 images (same size) in order: a drawing, a photograph matching the drawing, and a new drawing, I will generate a photograph in 3rd image’s shape.”

The back end implements the image analogies algorithm.

I already have the actual code that does this generation. However, it is an obscure Matlab program, so I wanted to make a more accessible front end for it. It’s outputs are pretty standard, expected from what my old code does, but its quality is a tiny bit lacking due to me forcing to cut down its processing time. No audience has been found yet. It is an imagebot, because it makes images. It allows people to generate photograph-looking images from crappy drawings, so it can produce unique content.

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