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EROFT: Meditation 3

This week I combined selenium web browsing with scraping and NLP to create a wikipedia prophecy generator, or wiki-omancy. When thinking about “-omancy” possibilities I broke down the typical structure – it involves some user input/action, some randomness, and a … Continue reading

05. April 2017 by zoe.bachman.itp
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EROFT: Meditation 2

Invent your own “oracle deck.” Your deck doesn’t have to be a physical object (though it can be). Keeping in mind the formal characteristics of cleromancy discussed in class, consider how digital media can complicate/diminish/augment the parts and processes of … Continue reading

29. March 2017 by zoe.bachman.itp
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EROFT: Meditation 1

I’ll be the first to say that my ritual is rather…boring. But if there’s anything I learned during my time in anthropology, it’s the things we find the most mundane that tell us the most about our value systems and … Continue reading

22. March 2017 by zoe.bachman.itp
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Understanding Networks: Wireshark Assignment

I did a couple different packet captures while figuring out how to use Wireshark. Doing it over the course of a couple hours made me appreciate the enormity of information passing through our networks – when I tried to shut … Continue reading

11. October 2016 by zoe.bachman.itp
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Learning Machines: Encoder

For our first assignment we were asked to create an encoder – something that would take a string and shorten the amount of data in the string, from Wikipedia: For example, consider a screen containing plain black text on a … Continue reading

18. September 2016 by zoe.bachman.itp
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RWET, Assignment 1

I’d been filing away text ideas all week long. I thought I wanted to work off of a poem, but as I was going through the python exercises I’d thought it would be more interesting to take a longer text … Continue reading

12. February 2016 by zoe.bachman.itp
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