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For Borges fans: Jonathan Basile put together a Library of Babel web app [1] based on the short story of the same name [2]. You can search for up to any string
by kornish 8y ago
For Borges fans: Jonathan Basile put together a Library of Babel web app [1] based on the short story of the same name [2]. You can search for up to any string of 3200 characters. While most of it is (predictably) meaningless gibberish, it's kind of mesmerizing to see what results appear near results - such as your own name.
[1]: https://libraryofbabel.info/search.html https://libraryofbabel.info/search.html
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
- lainga 8y agoThis begs Quine's reduced version with just two buttons, one labelled with a dot and the other with a dash.
- nebulous1 8y agoAlso Very Bad Wizards just did a couple of episode on two of his stories. https://verybadwizards.fireside.fm/episodes https://verybadwizards.fireside.fm/episodes
- jazzyjackson 8y agoI've really wanted to start something similar but with a natural language dictionary randomly assembling plausible, grammatically correct sentences as a way to pre-emptively copyright creative work. Actually that reminds me of a question I had, is there any legal precedence for copyrighting the output of a computer program? One could argue either the program is a creative work, or, the program is a tool that allowed me to create many creative works, but is the output of my program considered 'creative' ?
- lainga 8y agoIn this case I think it's moot, because by Borges' original description there are 25^(1 312 000) books in the Library, much more than the number of atoms in the observable Universe. So I think (and hope) the site isn't actually storing anything.