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John Pilger: THE ISSUE IS NOT TRUMP. IT IS OURSELVES (▻http://johnpi...
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John Pilger: THE ISSUE IS NOT TRUMP. IT IS OURSELVES[.](nowhere »#pilger #usa #eu #trump #media #art #literature #uk #au #ca«) 17/01/2017

Mississippians Can Code, Too
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When I was kid, I bought a learning kit from the book fair that taught me about electricity. It showed me how to wire an LED light and make a buzzer. I tried to set a trap to alarm me when somebody came to my room. Around the same time in life, I had a teacher who said I was lousy at math. I’ve avoided anything math or science-related as much as possible ever since.Two things happened this week related to that math aversion. I started an intensive 10-week course to learn software development, with the end goal of finding an entry level job as a software developer. And towards the end of the week, another learning kit arrived in the mail to teach me about circuits and solar electricity.I had a difficult time deciding whether or not to attend the coding class. But my first week of class (...)

#software-development #learn-to-code #literature #web-development #books

Algoliterary Podcasts
▻http://constantvzw.org/site/Algoliterary-Podcasts.html

As a contribution to ’Data Workers’, the #Algolit exhibition that will open on 28 March in Mundaneum in Mons, we will create a series of short podcasts with stories related to algorithms, text and artistic creation. The series will be recorded in collaboration with Radio Panik, broadcasted on their radio and through the EU-network of Radia. Algolit is a workgroup around FLOSS #Literature and code, they organise regular meetings following the Oulipo principle. There is no need for programming (...)

Algolit

/ #Audio, #Netnative_literature, Literature

Linear Regression as a Storyteller
▻http://constantvzw.org/site/Linear-Regression-as-a-Storyteller,3090.html

Linear Regression is one of the most well known and well understood algorithms in statistics and machine learning. It has been around for almost 200 years. It is an attractive model because the representation is so simple. Based on the documentation of the previous #Algolit session, we will use this technique as a recipe for potential literary creation - that can be physical, computational or analogical. Algolit is a workgroup around FLOSS #Literature and code, they organise regular (...)

Algolit

/ #Workshop, #Netnative_literature, Literature, #Algorithm

Literary Creation with Python
▻http://constantvzw.org/site/Literary-Creation-with-Python,3076.html

Workshop Oulipo in EADSE, St Etienne, France

#Algolit

/ #Netnative_literature, #Literature, #Algorithm

Daarom lees ik
▻http://constantvzw.org/site/Daarom-lees-ik.html

Algolit members Gijs de Heij and An Mertens will organise a #Workshop on Algorithmic Storytellers in the framework of the studyday ’Daarom lees ik’ (’Why I read’) organised by UGent. In the morning there will be a lecture and panel discussion about classical and digital fiction with i-literature pioneer Nick Montfort (MIT), and the researchers of UGent Culture & Education, Geert Vandermeersche and Kris Rutten. In the afternoon, a series of workshops explore the futures of reading. You can (...)

#Algolit

/ Workshop, #Literature, #Algorithm

Linear Regression
▻http://constantvzw.org/site/Linear-Regression.html

Linear Regression is one of the most well known and well understood algorithms in statistics and machine learning. It has been around for almost 200 years. It is an attractive model because the representation is so simple. During this session we first look at its history, its application in correlating events, as well as how this classifier can be used in Python. Next, we will use this technique as a recipe for potential literary creation - that can be physical, computational or (...)

#Algolit

/ #Workshop, #Netnative_literature, #Literature, #Algorithm

Machine Learning tools for Literary Creation
▻http://constantvzw.org/site/Machine-Learning-tools-for-Literary-Creation.html

Gijs de Heij and An Mertens, two members of the #Algolit team organise a #Workshop in Mundaneum in Mons from 8 to 12 October 2018 (10-18h), in collaboration with the teachers of Digital Arts ARTS². The workshop is aimed to students of ARTS2, Numediart and other schools, but can be joined by anyone who has an interest in the topic. We will look at the use of statistical machine learning models and archival materials for literary writing. The artists will propose existing tools and practices and (...)

Algolit

/ Workshop, #Netnative_literature, #Literature, #Algorithm

Naive Bayes as storyteller
▻http://constantvzw.org/site/Naive-Bayes-as-storyteller.html

In machine learning Naive Bayes is a simple probabilistic classifier that is widely applied for spam filtering and sentiment analysis. Based on the documentation of the previous session, we now use this technique as a recipe for potential literary creation - that can be physical, computational or analogical. #Algolit is a workgroup around FLOSS #Literature and code, they organise regular meetings following the Oulipo principle. There is no need for programming knowledge, but if you have it, (...)

Algolit

/ #Workshop, #Netnative_literature, Literature, #Algorithm

#Algolit@Mundaneum/Arts²
▻http://constantvzw.org/site/Algolit-Mundaneum-Arts%C2%B2.html

During this information session we explain methods and contents for the workshop that will happen in Mundaneum in Mons from 8 to 12 October 2018 (10-18h), organised by the teachers of Digital Arts ARTS² and artists from Algolit, Constant’s research group on free code and text. The workshop is aimed to students of ARTS2, Numediart and other schools, but can be joined by anyone who has an interest in the topic. We will look at the use of statistical machine learning models and archival (...)

Algolit

/ #Presentation, #Literature, #Algorithm

Naïve Bayes
▻http://constantvzw.org/site/Naive-Bayes.html

In machine learning Naive Bayes is a simple probabilistic classifier that is widely applied for spam filtering and sentiment analysis. During this session we first look at its history, its application in daily life decisions, as well as how this classifier can be used in Python. Next, we will use this technique as a recipe for potential literary creation - that can be physical, computational or analogical. #Algolit is a workgroup around FLOSS #Literature and code, they organise regular (...)

Algolit

/ #Workshop, #Netnative_literature, Literature, #Algorithm

On a rarement vu le travail de traduction aussi bien raconté que dans ce documentaire - Télévision - Télérama.fr

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▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co8JCaDEbrQ&feature=youtu.be

Trois traducteurs ont ouvert leurs portes au documentariste Henry Colomer. De qualité cinématographique, son film “Des voix dans le chœur…” ausculte le travail de la langue avec une grande justesse. Rarement vu et entendu.

#litérature #traduction

Michael Wolff Lesung in Berlin: „Fire and Fury“-Autor liest am 26. Februar in der Volksbühne | Berliner Zeitung
▻https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/kultur/michael-wolff-autor-von--fire-and-fury--liest-in-der-volksbuehne-29

Michael Wolff ist am 26. Februar zur hiesigen Buchpremiere in der Berliner Volksbühne zu Gast. Geplant ist eine Lesung und ein Gespräch, wie das Theater am Freitag mitteilte. Am 28. Februar ist Wolff in Köln beim Festival lit.Cologne. Auf Deutsch heißt das Buch, das viele Schlagzeilen machte, „Feuer und Zorn. Im Weißen Haus von Donald Trump“ und erscheint am 16. Februar bei Rowohlt.

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#Berlin #Mitte # #litérature #politique #événement

#Python for Literary Creation
▻http://constantvzw.org/site/Python-for-Literary-Creation.html

OLA is the TLA for the Parisian organisation Outils Libres Alternatifs (Alternative Free Tools). They will host a #Workshop with An Mertens on using Python code for literary creation. A line of code is like an action of a recipe. One prepares an ingredient, applies the aciton and the ingredient will be transformed. Oulipo, the Parisian collective around Raymond Queneau explored the idea of recipes or constraints for creating potential literatures since the 60s. Their work is a great (...)

#Algolit / Workshop, Python, #Literature

Towards Collective Gentleness?
▻http://constantvzw.org/site/Towards-Collective-Gentleness.html

‘A Sentiment Thermometer’ is one of the installations in the exhibition of Algoliterary Encounters. It will be the starting point for the #Workshop. It asks questions to commonly used language models based on machine learning, like GloVe and word2vec. Using part of the Internet as training data, these models are considered to learn from ‘collective intelligence’. ‘A Sentiment Thermometer’ scores given written sentences as more positive or negative. This technique, also called sentiment analysis, (...)

#Algolit / Workshop, #Netnative_literature, #Hybrid_languages, #Literature, #Algorithm

Algoliterary Lectures
▻http://constantvzw.org/site/Algoliterary-Lectures,2852.html

In the framework of Algoliterary Encounters, we will be hosting two lectures on Friday 10 November. Generative Models and the Digital Humanities: Towards Synthetic #Literature, by Mike Kestemont Mike Kestemont is assistant professor in the department of literature at the University of Antwerp in Belgium. He is a researcher in computational text analysis, in particular for historic texts. Authorship attribution is one of his main areas of expertise. He designs computational algorithms (...)

#Algolit / #Lecture, #Netnative_literature, Literature, #Algorithm

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Algoliterary Encounter
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In the framework of Saison Numérique the Maison du Livre opens its space for #Algolit during three days in a row. The group presents lectures, workshops and a small #Exhibition about the narrative perspective of neural networks. Neural networks are selflearning algorithms based on statistics. They often function as opaque ’blackbox’ algorithms, while they shape applications that are daily used on a worldwide scale, like search engines on the web, translation machines, advertising profiling, (...)

Algolit / #Workshop, #Lecture, Exhibition, #Hybrid_languages, #Literature, #Algorithm

#Peter_Kimani reflects on the work of #Historical_Fiction
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/04/peter-kimani-reflects-on-the-work-of-historical-fiction

Historical fiction has been having a bit of moment recently, especially among authors from the African continent and its diaspora. Authors imagine new possibilities out of old configurations; the past often proves as fecund as the futures that writers of speculative or science fiction might imagine. Recently novelists such Yaa Gyasi, Yvonne Owuor, Colson Whitehead,…

#CULTURE #Books #East_Africa #Kenya #Literature #Uganda

The uncompromising #Zoë_Wicomb
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/03/the-uncompromising-zoe-wicomb

Zoe Wicomb is unquestionably among the most significant and widely-read literary interpreters of #South_Africa. Reading her work from a genderscript is fascinating. My colleague, Meg Samuelson, from the English department, wrote the following on Wicomb’s outstanding contribution: She’s one of the most consummate literary craftspersons in the world of South African fiction, and among…

#CULTURE #culture #Literature

#crime in #South_Africa
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/02/crime-in-south-africa

The cover and title of the journalist Don Pinnock’s Gang Town seem to promise a sensational tour of meth dens and children caught in the crossfire.  Instead, the book patiently explains something far more grim: what happens when the legacy of South Africa’s 1950 Group Areas Act, and decades of impoverishing and alienating policies, meet an unprecedented increase in youth population. Pinnock, who […]

#CULTURE #Books #Cape_Town #criminology #gang_culture #Johannesburg #Literature #police #reviews

#crime in #South_Africa
▻http://africasacountry.com/2017/02/crime-in-cape-town

The cover and title of the journalist Don Pinnock’s Gang Town seem to promise a sensational tour of meth dens and children caught in the crossfire.  Instead, the book patiently explains something far more grim: what happens when the legacy of South Africa’s 1950 Group Areas Act, and decades of impoverishing and alienating policies, meet an unprecedented increase in youth population. Pinnock, who […]

#CULTURE #Books #Cape_Town #gang_culture #Literature #police #reviews

Africa is a Country Recommends… (our 2016 #Book list).
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/12/africa-is-a-country-recommends-our-2016-book-list

We’re a bookish bunch at AIAC, and once a year we like to share some of our favorite reads from the year just gone. It always feels like there’s too much to read, because there is. But one can always read more! So here’s some more to add to your reading pile for 2017. Wangui […]

#CULTURE #End_of_Year_Lists #Literature #Reccomendations

Inheritances of our fathers
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/12/inheritances-of-our-fathers

There’s #History, with a capital ‘H’ – the one you find written up, memorized and recited as facts, dates, inaugurations, wars, victims and statistics. And then there is the one in small caps – the history that gets under your skin: when great political systems are embodied in the tiny details of everyday life; when […]

#CULTURE #Apartheid #Books #Literature #memory #reviews #South_Africa

Ramadan in Khartoum
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/11/ramadan-in-khartoum

Mahmoud Mohamed Taha (1909-1985) was a Sudanese religious reformer and leader, who had also played a significant role in #Sudan’s struggle for independence from Britain in the 1940s. After a series of spiritual experiences in the early 1950s, Taha converted his political party, the Republican Party, into a social/religious reform movement known popularly as “The […]

#CULTURE #Books #Excerpt #Literature

Apparently, I love Africa. I’ve been told this by people who hardly know me.
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In 2003, I was among the hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, who marched through London to demonstrate against the war in Iraq. I thought a lot about #Angola that day. I felt very sad that there had never been a big march against the war there – even though, by then, it had already ended. […]

#CULTURE #Books #Literature