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All possible plots by major authors (2020)
- kreyenborgi 2y agoAll possible trees by major forests
- tehnub 2y agoPithy and absolutely correct
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- jkaptur 2y agoEvery New Yorker short fiction: our protagonist, a slightly dislikable person, suffers from a medium-high amount of ennui.
- rKarpinski 2y ago"thomas hardy Lies, lies, misery, lies, suicide, rape, and corn prices." So true
- ljsprague 2y agoThis also makes you think his book would be depressing to read but I've read the Mayor of Casterbridge and I would call it joyful. Odd.
- anigbrowl 2y ago'Oh, you think you hate me? Hold my gruel.'
- deathanatos 2y ago…I know literature, like all art, is open to interpretation, but I am immensely curious as to how you came away from The Mayor of Casterbridge with joy, of all things.
- ljsprague 2y agoHaha, you're right, joyful isn't the right word but there's something pleasant in all the twists and turns. There's something comical about Henchard's sadness.
- wwilim 2y agoStephen King: you'll know better than to FAFO after I tell you what happened in Maine a few decades ago.
- tptacek 2y agoTo do King justice you have to capture some kind of on-the-nose allegory (alcoholism, childhood trauma, the existential dread of one's musical tastes being classifiable as dad-rock, the Cold War), and it can't be about the corruption and decline of small-town New England, which is everpresent. Yog-Sothoth should make an appearance.
- jl6 2y agoHacker News: Apple launches data center on a stick, and boy does Elon Musk have an opinion about that (14879 comments)
- ryandrake 2y ago...re-written in Rust.
- bryanrasmussen 2y agoIt would have better through-put if it were rewritten in Elixir, I would do it in Erlang but I find the syntax less appealing.
- jebarker 2y agoIt's OK though, since throughput considerations don't matter as hardware is so fast now and your boss just wants you to get the thing shipped
- globalise83 2y agoSo long as it doesn't have leaky abstractions, it passes muster.
- NBJack 2y agoHN comments, N levels deep: The subtle mention of a largely tangential but controversial topic is important to me. Here is an eight-paragraph thinly-veiled diatribe on why you are wrong.
- caseyy 2y agoA condemning argument against your diatribe, based largely on my personal definition of a loaded term your diatribe used.
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- fallinditch 2y agoAlbert Camus: Alone and isolated you grapple with the absurdities of existence. And who the f*k are you?
- HanClinto 2y agoMichael Crichton: Humanity employs raw hubris and technological advancement for a close-encounter with non-humanity. Chaos ensues.
- HanClinto 2y agoThe above was written by hand. As an experiment, I asked Claude to generate a few dozen more. Most weren't great. Here are the highlights: Michael Crichton: You're a brilliant scientist who's just created something that will revolutionize the world. Congratulations! It's now trying to eat you. Michael Crichton: You've stumbled upon a conspiracy involving [insert scientific field]. Now you're being chased by [insert government agency] while trying to explain complex scientific concepts to the reader. Suzanne Collins: You must choose between two brooding love interests while simultaneously overthrowing a totalitarian regime. Priorities! Stephen King: Welcome to small-town Maine, where the biggest threat isn't the weather, it's the [insert supernatural horror]. Don't worry, a writer will save the day. Neil Gaiman: Mythology crashes into modern life. You're either a god who's fallen on hard times or a regular person about to have a very weird Wednesday. Margaret Atwood: Society has taken a slight turn for the worse. Women are now [insert dystopian scenario]. This is definitely not a commentary on current events. And perhaps my favorite: George Orwell: Big Brother is watching you. So is your toaster. And your pet. Trust no one, especially not the pigs. Out of 30 generations, there were a few more that made me smile, but these were the main ones I enjoyed. Something I've noticed with statistical content generation is that it has a difficult time not being too "on the nose" -- almost like next-token-prediction is making it want to rush and get to the punchline a little too quickly. It has a hard time being subtle, and too often it felt like it was just a glib little summary of a story, rather than a sardonic take-a-step-back-and-look-at-the-big-picture sort of approach. No major revelations, but just barely interesting enough to warrant commenting here. If there were a Dull Men's Club version of Hacker News, I would have posted this there.
- anigbrowl 2y ago'I decided to imitate this outburst of human creativity with AI. Wow!' is a great way to stop getting invited to parties (with humans).
- PlunderBunny 2y agoA link to "All Possible Plots II" [0] would have been better, because it includes everything in "All Possible Plots I" [0] https://www.the-fence.com/all-possible-plots-ii/ https://www.the-fence.com/all-possible-plots-ii/
- HanClinto 2y agoDepending on the referrer URL, you may or may not be hit with a paywall. https://archive.ph/h2y0R https://archive.ph/h2y0R
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- PlunderBunny 2y agoSomeone do Michael Moorcock.
- bryanrasmussen 2y agodue to my being saddled with the British National debt it turns out that a loner of a dying race must set out on a morally ambiguous journey through all reality, killing everyone he meets except for a thinly disguised Sancho Panza - Volumes 1 through 119.
- bryanrasmussen 2y agodue to my having accidentally stolen the brown acid from Alan Moore, who you probably suspected I might actually be for some years, in Volume 120 loner from a dying race meets other loners from other dying races in future and merges into 1000 limbed kaiju and is forced to eat the soul of Sancha Panza. on edit: due to having eaten the brown acid I stole I forgot how to spell words like eldritch and Alan and have edited one of them in a new edition of my previous work to undo the typo introduced in the acid-addled version.
- bryanrasmussen 2y agodue to coming down from previous trip I realized that racism has infected fantasy like a virus, and the only way forward is poorly disguised Gormenghast pastiche. on edit: thinly veiled threat to write 500 more comments on this issue in the next few months.
- bryanrasmussen 2y agodue to my having survived the last 3 or 5000 comments, this part is somewhat hazy, I would just like to say that China Miéville is my legacy and he thinks of me as his literary father, which I am in a way, although I am a heroic loner from a forgotten race doomed to wander through HN writing comments for all eternity until I can finally destroy the Evil God who cursed me to do so and cash my royalty checks. on edit: or perhaps I have cashed these royalty checks here, in the end times, and am having lovely sex times with erotically gender strange creatrixii - a word like any other. While the world dissolves into a tangerine ice cream created by the whim of the last human minds to develop a plot point.
- ethbr1 2y ago>> Dan Brown -- Award-winning author Dan Brown has written a complicated role for you with his expensive pen. You are a humanities professor at an Ivy League university, but also, somehow, in mortal peril. Your love interest is picturesque but ill-mannered and French. This is somehow worth several million dollars. Kafka seems low-effort though. I humbly substitute: You have inside you an extraordinary writer but are instead employed at the postal service, where you spend the rest of your days watching your first manuscript submission mistakenly misrouted back across your desk.
- nfw2 2y agoYou are a humanities professor at an Ivy League university, but also, somehow, in mortal peril. Your love interest is picturesque but ill-mannered... This is also true of Indiana Jones, which everyone likes.
- bryanrasmussen 2y agoIndiana Jones taught at Marshall College, I hardly think that qualifies as Ivy League. What a disappointment to his father that guy was.
- ethbr1 2y agoI got the impression that Dr. Jones was well-liked by his female students (in his younger days) and a few friends, but was generally avoided by most of his peers. Probably for his penchant of grave robbing...
- darepublic 2y agoBut he tells his students that X never marks the spot.
- w-m 2y agoDon't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown! > Renowned author Dan Brown woke up in his luxurious four-poster bed in his expensive $10 million house – and immediately he felt angry. Most people would have thought that the 48-year-old man had no reason to be angry. After all, the famous writer had a new book coming out. But that was the problem. A new book meant an inevitable attack on the rich novelist by the wealthy wordsmith’s fiercest foes. The critics. > Renowned author Dan Brown hated the critics. Ever since he had become one of the world’s top renowned authors they had made fun of him. They had mocked bestselling book The Da Vinci Code, successful novel Digital Fortress, popular tome Deception Point, money-spinning volume Angels & Demons and chart-topping work of narrative fiction The Lost Symbol. > The critics said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive. They said it was full of unnecessary tautology. They said his prose was swamped in a sea of mixed metaphors... https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/dont-make-fun-of-renowned-dan-brown/ https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/dont-make-f...
- vharuck 2y agoTerry Pratchett: A visionary on the Discworld invents something vaguely like a modern object or industry. That invention enslaves the visionary and must be stopped by a crotchety old person who hates change.
- bombcar 2y agoHe had a few variations on that where the invention is adapted and adopted by the crotchety olds.
- w-m 2y agoOr mix together your own plot, by combining any of the tropes in the "Periodic Table of Storytelling": https://jamesharris.design/periodic/ https://jamesharris.design/periodic/
- all2 2y agoTV Tropes had something similar. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/storygen.php https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/storygen.php
- ChocMontePy 2y agoI need an "Every possible comment by Hacker News users"
- gherkinnn 2y agohttp://n-gate.com/hackernews/ http://n-gate.com/hackernews/
- nojs 2y agoI am very disappointed this stopped
- FactKnower69 2y agobizarre fixation on china huh
- anigbrowl 2y agoI really miss this project. It's AI replaceable of course but I'm not sure a computer can pull of the such withering personal attacks.
- seabombs 2y agoAw man I miss n-gate... Anyone know why they stopped?
- 123yawaworht456 2y agotitle: foo comment: an essayesque rant about deeply held ideological beliefs that are not even vaguely related to foo
- thechao 2y agoHaving just found out about topic X, and thought about it for 30 seconds, I have strong advice for the world's expert about an edge case they forgot for solutions to topic X.
- sseagull 2y agoMan Feels Like He Gets Gist Of Enlightenment After First Few Minutes Of Hearing Zen Monk Talk https://theonion.com/man-feels-like-he-gets-gist-of-enlightenment-after-firs-1843260836/ https://theonion.com/man-feels-like-he-gets-gist-of-enlighte...
- wanderer2323 2y agoWodehouse: Titanic forces beyond your control such as scheming aunts, accidental engagements, and inability to express your feelings threaten to irrevocably ruin your life forever. It’ll take a Machiavellian mastermind and a series of unlikely coincidences to extricate you from this predicament but you’ll have to pay a price. They really didn’t do Wodehouse justice in the OP
- dmd 2y agoSee also, PLOTTO, all possible plots by ALL authors: 1) https://garykac.github.io/plotto/plotto-mf.html https://garykac.github.io/plotto/plotto-mf.html 2) https://www.npr.org/2012/02/19/146941343/plotto-an-algebra-book-for-fiction-writing https://www.npr.org/2012/02/19/146941343/plotto-an-algebra-b...
- riwsky 2y ago#All possible codebases by major programmers Linus Torvalds: you take a week-long swing at a problem you find annoying, fascinating, or both. The result enjoys staggering worldwide success in the ensuing decades, despite being clearly outclassed by some alternative from the GNU project that, pinky promise, is coming out any day now. Grace Hopper: BEGIN a framework that powers critical government functions, AND has secretly saved America from mass destruction time and again, only to be dunked on by Reddit for trivial matters of syntax END. John Carmack: Doom, but better-looking. Brendan Eich: you take a week-long swing at a problem your employer finds commercially compelling. The result enjoys staggering worldwide success in the ensuing decades, despite being clearly outclassed by the prior art it was supposed to build on.
- mp05 2y ago> Brendan Eich: you take a week-long swing at a problem your employer finds commercially compelling. The result enjoys staggering worldwide success in the ensuing decades, despite being clearly outclassed by the prior art it was supposed to build on. Pretty brilliant, right? Right?
- riwsky 2y agoPlease forgive my JavaScript joke: it’s really just a poorly-written series of callbacks.
- minikomi 2y agoYou merely extended the prototype
- bigiain 2y agoIt wasn't that great, but some of the callbacks had promises...
- sdiupIGPWEfh 2y agoI'm still awaiting the punchline.
- jfvinueza 2y agoFunny, thanks. This is another very fun one in the same spirit: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-your-favorite-sad-dad-band-says-about-you https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-your-favorite-sad-d...
- russellbeattie 2y agoWhat does it say about me that I've only actually read 14 of the 56 authors in the second list [1] as an adult (i.e. by choice)? I know of quite a few, but haven't read most of them. Here's my list (++ indicates more than 1): Fitzgerald Hemingway ++ Shakespeare ++ Christie ++ Brown ++ Dickens McCarthy ++ Wodehouse ++ Steinbeck ++ Stoppard Kafka Conan Doyle ++ Seuss (of course) ++ Lee A missing classic author is Robert Louis Stevenson - all his books are amazing, even 150 year later. If you've read more than one Dickens novel, you have my deepest respect. 1. https://www.the-fence.com/all-possible-plots-ii/ https://www.the-fence.com/all-possible-plots-ii/
- chadcmulligan 2y agoA friend of mine has been reading Ulysses since 2022, I've stopped asking him about it.
- ProllyInfamous 2y agoSince 2022, I'm [only] on page 400 of Infinite Jest (D.F.Wallace). In particular, the intoxicated flashbacks (with no paragraph breaks for ppaaggeess) just make it difficult to plow through... Meanwhile, I've concurrently read 70+ other "lesser" classics (i.e. less than Jest's 1300 pages + citations) in those same two years. This includes all of Vonnegut, most of Steinbeck, and half of Gárcia Marquéz.
- crtified 2y agoHumanity would be a pretty bland experience if everybody universally read the same toplist of influences. Some may aspire to study The Classics at Oxford, but to me that sounds like a nightmare of deprivation. Accordingly I see your balanced, partial foray into those classics as a positive. It shows you're an individual bespoke personality with broader influences. We won't know which of the modern works we read are future classics - that'll come in hundreds of years.
- troupe 2y agoI would argue that a shared corpus that everyone has read is a key foundation to a society with rich and nuanced social intercourse. That doesn't mean everyone has read the same books, but there would be significant benefits in kids coming out of high school or college having all read 50 or 100 of the same great books (plus anything else they wanted to read). I've had the pleasure of listening in on some discussions from high-school students that study classics meeting each other for the first time. Their discussions tend to be very different from what you'd hear from a typical high-school student. While other students might share the language, the ones who have read the same 50 or so great books tend to have a shared vocabulary of ideas at their disposal that doesn't seem to be there without the shared books.
- motohagiography 2y agoI miss literary fiction but with age my weakness for a point has become an all consuming vice.
- teraflop 2y agoReminds me of "Book-A-Minute" (http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/ http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/) from yesteryear. Most of the entries are for specific books, but there are also some authors mentioned, e.g. "The Collected Works of Dean Koontz": http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/koontz.shtml http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/koontz.shtml
- Vedor 2y ago"A Scanner Darkly" entry [0] is my favorite so far. Somehow, it's wildly accurate. [0] - http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/dick.scanner.shtml http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/dick.scanner.shtml
- karaterobot 2y agoWhoooa, what a blast from the past. I loved that site, but I bet I haven't been there in 15 years. It seems their most recent update was just last week.
- ashton314 2y agoBrandon Sanderson: scrappy protagonist discovers that they have magical powers, despite struggling from crushing depression and/or trauma. This annoying guy named Hoid smirks at everyone. The next weekend they accidentally trigger the end of the world, which they prevent in the nick of time by becoming a god.
- Lance_ET_Compte 2y agoLOL!
- karaterobot 2y agoThey could have had an entry for McSweeney's that just said "the text of this article".
- nfw2 2y agoTo summarize Dan Brown books by describing the characters fundamentally misunderstands them. The characters are about as important as the characters in a porno. The point of a Dan Brown book is to chart the stupidest possible path through history and pop science, and he's uniquely capable of this.
- GolfPopper 2y ago>The point of a Dan Brown book is to chart the stupidest possible path through history and pop science, and he's uniquely capable of this. Clive Cussler begs to differ.
- shrikant 2y agoDon't make fun of renowned author Dan Brown. https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/dont-make-fun-of-renowned-dan-brown/ https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/dont-make-f...
- nfw2 2y agoI actually kind of like renowned author Dan Brown, the same way I kind of like the acclaimed historical drama National Treasure
- treetalker 2y agoAre you talking about renowned author Dan Brown? The one who walks with his feet?
- farmeroy 2y agoI want an author who's work is completely unidentifiable from one release to the next. Or to find a dozen authors who have inconceivably and independently created identical manuscripts. Surely if there were a library with all possible books, we would find one of those two things...
- dsr_ 2y agoNot exactly, but Walter Jon Williams keeps switching genres successfully: - Napoleonic sea fighting - early cyberpunk (Hardwired) - middle cyberpunk around the Solar System (Voice of the Whirlwind) - late cyberpunk post-scarcity space opera(Aristoi) - transhuman space opera (Implied Spaces) - New Mexican police procedural / thriller (Days of Atonement) - near future thrillers (This Is Not A Game and sequelae) - fantasy of city infrastructure (Metropolitan and City on Fire) - comedy of manners (the Drake Maijstral trilogy) - Fall of the Space Roman Empire (Dread Empire's Fall series) - Medieval fantasy (Quillifer and sequelae) and a Giant Disaster novel, a Zelaznyesque SF mystery, and a Star Wars work-for-hire. There's enough there for five separate authors to make marks on the field.
- npilk 2y agoSounds like you'd be interested in the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges - your comment brings Pierre Menard to mind.
- drdeca 2y ago> Or to find a dozen authors who have inconceivably and independently created identical manuscripts. So, kind of like, or so it is said, the septaguint?
- netcoyote 2y agoWilliam Gibson: You are an adequate but drug-addled hacker, navigating dangerous, high-tech worlds where blurred realities, conspiracies, and corporate power struggles force you to uncover hidden truths, survive against powerful forces, and ultimately question the nature of identity, technology, and control. Neal Stephenson: You are a small cog in a historical epic leading to a far-flung speculative future, where you grapple with the complexities of technology, cryptography, and philosophy, as well as incidentally discovering the best way to eat Captain Crunch cereal.
- schlauerfox 2y agoNew Neal Stephenson out today, looking forward to more of that formula, we'll see.
- atombender 2y agoI think you're giving Gibson too much credit. It's more like: Mysterious person with unlimited resources hires scrappy set of hacker types to obtain a McGuffin, which usually someone else is also seeking out. They find the McGuffin. Mysterious backer reveals themselves in some way. The end. That's the plot of every single novel. In Neuromancer: Case & co. is hired by Armitage. In Count Zero Turner is hired to rescue a scientist out of a biolab, although the McGuffin is the scientist's daughter; there is a second hire plot involving a mysterious millionaire hiring an art curator to look for an art piece. In Mona Lisa Overdrive, Mona is hired by a mysterious group for a gig that turns out to be a way to kidnap a McGuffin. Not much else happens. In Virtual Light, Rydell is hired to recover a McGuffin stolen by another character. In Pattern Recognition, Cayce is hired by a mysterious millionaire to trace an obscuree Internet video. In The Peripheral, the main character is hired by a mysterious group to remotely patrol a building. And so on. It's like Gibson can't invent a plot where the plot isn't about work. And the person hiring the main character is always this shady and incredibly wealthy individual, so that the main character can be supported by all their resources. Blurred realities and questions about identity doesn't sound like any Gibson book I've read. That sounds more like Philip K. Dick.
- tzs 2y agoJack Woodford, a decent pulp writer in the first half of the 20th century who also wrote several books on writing and on how the publishing industry works, including "Trial and Error" in 1933 which Robert Heinlein and Ray Bradbury both cited as a major influence in getting their writing careers started, had a nice description of how to plot: > Boy meets girl; girl gets boy into pickle; boy gets pickle into girl
- wslh 2y agoWeird than "Trial and Error" is not available in Gutenberg.
- autoexec 2y agoIt's likely still under copyright. It hasn't even been a century since the author's death.
- wslh 2y agoI wonder why this work by the same author is available for free [1]. [1] https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74145 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74145
- autoexec 2y agoIt's an earlier work. I see that the release date of the free book was just this year. If Radio Razz entered the public domain this year then it's possible that Trial and Error will be on that site within the next decade.
- dzink 2y agoEvery social network: you make something for your friends and end up with viral growth immediately or after years of nothing. You spend the rest of your days policing trolls, spammers, and scammers trying to abuse or hijack the network. You or someone in marketing send out too many spammy notifications abusing user trust and users block your notifications. Nobody shows up anymore and network dies. Every rom-com: Boy meets girl and they have good times. Somebody messes up. They have a fight. The get back together again. Every Hallmark movie: Big city girl ends up in small town by coincidence. While decorating for Christmas she falls for the small town guy and decides to stay. (The productions get cheaper by the year, so where they had scenery you now see people talking in front of a blurry background for 90% of the plot. )
- anthk 2y agoCervantes: hipster idealistic old fart with vintage books tries to roam around the world with a pragmatic and grounded singleton as if they lived in 'the good old times from the books' kicking the asses of bad guys. Instead of a militia, they look like funny hobos disguised as comedy soldiers in a TV sketch. 'Modern', real life events hit the hipster back. Literally, up to the point seeing the singleton lecturing him over and over after several clashes with the world. Everyone laughs.
- sramsay 2y agoStephen King: A character wonders if, given all the suffering recently endured over the last few hundred pages, life is nonetheless still worth living. This character is killed by an entity which, despite all appearance and reputation, is permanently and inexplicably murderous.
- oaththrowaway 2y agoAlso there needs to be a chapter where children run a train on a girl in the sewers
- swayvil 2y agoSo, Mr It, what's the upside of all this stalking and childmurder? What's your favorite videogame?
- YeGoblynQueenne 2y agoBoth articles (there's a sequel) read like not bad flash fiction.
- caseyy 2y agoAndy Weir: Your indomitable human spirit has gotten you far. Now in the face of overwhelming odds, you will need to show resilience and science the shit out of your situation.
- rufus_foreman 2y agoThe only one of these parodies that makes me want to read the author being parodied is Hemingway. Apparently, dude could write.
- zabzonk 2y agoOr as Philip K Dick knew him - "Serious constricting path".
- rufus_foreman 2y agoCitation?
- zabzonk 2y agoGalactic Pot Healer
- rawgabbit 2y agoHemingway: All of life’s problems start and end with a drink. You drink because there’s something inside you that’s broken, something you can’t fix—or at least not yet. Anxiety gnaws at you, born from problems you can’t solve, or the weight of old trauma. The bottle seems like a way out, a moment’s peace from the storm in your head. And for a while, it works. The drink quiets the noise, softens the pain. Soon enough, the drink that was supposed to save you is the very thing pulling you under. The problems you were running from don’t disappear—they grow, just like your need for the next drink.
- phaedrus 2y agoIain M Banks: (spoilers) the narrator is secretly an AI
- upwardbound 2y agoBecause I hope that more people listen to the audiobook series Strange Company: Nick Cole: Log Keeper's Note: Aftermath. In those dark years of the long crossing between the world we'd cut loose of the bad contract on, and the repair facility on Hardrock, the Strange Company slept and the galaxy caught fire as we dreamed for twenty-five years of sublight. The old order of the Monarchs, mighty yet petty gods determined to burn worlds and take humanity with them down into the deep dark graves of empire, began its final collapse. Worlds fell into shadowy chaos, overrun by the cackle of automatic weapons carried by the Simia Legions, while ring stations at Oberon and Circe burned like fiery jewels. Into this madness and maelstrom rode the Strange Company. (That’s a slightly abridged excerpt from the second audiobook of the duology, Voodoo Warfare. I call them audiobooks rather than novels because in print form they are merely quite good but very derivative examples of their genre, but as narrated by Christopher Ryan Grant, they are among the most epic and inspiring stories I have ever heard come alive.)
- upwardbound 2y agoNick Cole, continued: Epigraph: Wherever in the universe one happens to find them, an old battlefield, a forgotten glade, buried deep in the rubble of a dead and beam-ravaged world, the graves of Strange Company are often marked such: “Strangers to the Universe, Brothers to the End.”
- golergka 2y agoOK but where's James Joyce?
- zeroonetwothree 2y agoThey have a “part 2”
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- benlivengood 2y agoStephan Wolfram: here is a fascinating and subtle mathematical curiosity and also my Incredible Equivalent Formulation As Cellular Automata.
- zzzmarcus 2y agoI sent them all to ChatGPT 4o one by one and had it guess the books, this is how it did: 1. Anthony Trollope – I didn’t get this one. 2. Evelyn Waugh – Correct! 3. Henry James – Correct! 4. Graham Greene – I missed this, was thinking of the wrong tone. 5. W. Shakespeare (i) – Correct! 6. Samuel Richardson – Correct! 7. David Foster Wallace – I guessed Gaddis, but this makes perfect sense. Partial credit. 8. Marcel Proust – Correct! 9. Mrs. Gaskell – Correct! 10. Ian McEwan – Partial credit; I guessed Atonement after Henry James. 11. E. M. Forster – Correct! 12. Cormac McCarthy – Correct! 13. P. G. Wodehouse – Correct! 14. Alan Bennett – I guessed Chekhov/Osborne, so I missed this. 15. Jane Austen – Correct! 16. Dan Brown – Correct! 17. Agatha Christie – Correct! 18. Zadie Smith – Missed this one. 19. W. Shakespeare (ii) – Correct! 20. Iris Murdoch – Correct! 21. Ernest Hemingway – Correct! 22. John Banville – Correct! 23. Harold Pinter – Correct! 24. F. Scott Fitzgerald – Correct! 25. Tennessee Williams – Correct! 26. Oscar Wilde – Correct! 27. D. H. Lawrence – Correct! 28. Thomas Hardy – Correct! 29. Virginia Woolf – Missed this one, was thinking of Galsworthy. 30. Tom Stoppard – Correct! Final score: 25/30 with a couple of partial credits. Not bad!