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Racter is an artificial intelligence simulator from 1984. Similar to Eliza, Racter will converse with the user until boredom occurs. However, there's a twist - Racter is not quite sane! This makes for a lot of fun conversation.Racter was originally programmed on an early Apple computer. Additional comments by developer William Chamberlain and Thomas Etter:RACTER was designed in a tongue-in-cheek manner, using remarkably minimal resources, to amuse and entertain its users, rather than to advance the research in natural language processing. In conversation, RACTER plays a very active, almost aggressive role, jumping from topic to topic in wild associations, ultimately producing the manner of - as its co-creator Tom Etter calls it - an "artificially insane" raconteur. Its authors publicize RACTER as an "intense young program [that] haunted libraries, discussion societies, and sleazy barrooms in a never-ending quest to achieve that most unreachable of dreams: to become a raconteur."

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I've Died and Gone to Devon

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Creative Work

Author

J. R. Carpenter

Year

2010

URL

I've Died and Gone to Devon

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I've Died and Gone to Devon (Python)

Language

English

Publication Type

Presented at conference or festival

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Description (in English)

I've Died and Gone to Devon re-purposes a Python script by Nick Montfort to tell (and retell) the story of an arrival and first impression of Devon. Most of the sentences in this story were adapted from Twitter posts written during a five-week visit to Devon, August - September, 2009.

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I've died and gone to Devon. In North America, roads this narrow wouldn't even count as driveways. If this is the wrong side of the road, I don't care what's right. If this is the driveway, then I can't wait to see the house. We can't hear the river from the house, but we can see it. Everybody insists we're by the seaside. I can smell but not see the sea. Flotsam on a tidal river is a strange mixture of oak leaves and seaweed. This is an achingly beautiful place to come across a little death.

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Technical notes

To view the Python version, Download the file http://luckysoap.com/stories/Devon.zip to your desktop and unzip. On a Mac or Linux system, you can run the story generator by opening a Terminal Window, typing "cd Desktop", and typing "python filename.py". Hint: look for Terminal in your Utilities folder. On Windows, you will probably need to install Python first: version 2.6.5. Once Python is installed you can double click on the file and it will automatically launch and run in the terminal window. Every time you press ENTER a new version of the story will appear.