Darius Bacon's site of programming toys and essays, including Turing Drawings, Bytebeat, and a hacker's introduction to partial evaluation.
HN links it for the Turing Drawings cellular automaton demo, where commenters share favorite patterns and praise it as a cool project.
I fed four popular song names from 2019 to GPT-2, and it suggested some other song titles in the same genre. A few of them already exist:
B2B, by X Ambassadors (feat. MØ, Alex Clare, Lido, FUSE) .
Saturday Night, by Dot Genesis.
Saturday Night, by Above & Beyond.
Thanks for the Wrecking Ball, by Black Moon.
Best Regards, by Florence + The Machine.
"Fuck You All," by RBE.
Birthday Love, by Notoriously Morbid.
Welcome to the jungle, by Rogue (feat. Mosca).
Nobody and Nobody, by
Stunna (feat. Q-Tip).
Feels Like Summer, by Public Enemy (feat. Public Enemy).
Critical, by Mobb Deep (feat. X-Clan).
Electric, by Josh Wink.
Down, by Aaliyah.
Hip Hop 4 Life, by Quad City DJ's.
Post-9/11, by The Notorious B.I.G.
The Oneness, by 99 Problems (feat. AK-47).
Where Are Ü Now, by Too
All These Things That I've Done, by The 1975.
Triple Poison, by Weezer (feat. Weezer/Beck).
Lionheart, by Usher.
In time, we've come so far
I feel like this approach ought to work well for generating names. Also, lyrics:
Pull me up like you be makin' an '80s comeback
The devil, he stole your soul and he's back like it ain't no fuckin' thing
I'ma turn you on my side with another trend, boom
Heard they wanted to make a video and they could only get me
When they heard I could do and write and everything was under control
Hey, you could say, just listen to this hit I made
Twist the straw, pull the switch and wrap this napkin around it
All I hear is "ice-nine"
It takes a 'dub to make…
Lovely.
My findings:
Here is one with a curious counter-clockwise rotation phenomenon:
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#6,5,5,2,0,2,1,0,4,4,2,3,4,1,0,3,2,3,3,0,0,1,2,3,1,0,5,2,2,0,4,0,4,4,3,5,2,3,1,4,0,5,2,0,4,3,2,4,1,2,4,1,1,3,3,0,4,2,0,5,1,2,0,4,1,3,3,1,0,1,3,5,3,0,3,1,2,1,4,3,0,1,3,1,1,3,0,4,0,4,3,0
And a few that take a long time to stabilize and do some interesting things in the meantime:
http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#3,5,2,4,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,3,0,0,3,3,0,1,2,2,2,1,0,4,3,0,1,2,2,1,0,1,4,3,1,3,3,0,4,1,0,4,3,1,2,1
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,2,1,2,1,3,2,0,3,1,2,3,1,1,0,1,2,0,1,1,1,2,0,3,1,3,3,2,0,1,1,3,3,1,3
http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#3,6,1,3,3,2,1,0,0,2,1,0,5,2,2,4,0,1,3,2,0,3,1,1,5,1,2,5,0,1,4,2,2,4,3,0,4,1,2,1,0,0,5,2,0,1,2,0,2,1,2,1,0,1,4,3
I got something like the Sierpinski triangles too : http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#2,24,1,6,1,0,17,1,1,19,1,0,9,1,1,5,0,0,4,2,1,23,2,1,19,2,0,4,0,1,11,0,1,23,0,0,8,2,1,20,2,1,22,3,0,21,1,0,10,2,0,1,1,0,8,2,1,16,3,1,16,0,1,10,2,0,18,3,1,4,2,0,3,1,0,16,2,0,4,2,0,2,3,1,7,2,1,22,1,0,4,2,0,5,0,0,11,1,1,7,0,0,8,0,1,1,0,0,22,1,0,10,2,1,15,3,1,3,0,0,23,0,1,8,0,0,11,3,0,17,1,1,16,1,0,13,2,0,7,1,0,7,0,1,1,1
even closer : http://www.wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#2,23,1,2,2,0,19,3,0,18,2,1,19,1,0,14,3,0,10,0,1,5,1,0,2,3,0,14,0,0,3,0,0,3,1,1,21,1,1,22,0,0,4,2,0,20,3,0,17,2,0,7,0,1,16,1,1,16,0,1,9,0,1,21,0,1,3,3,0,17,1,1,5,1,1,3,1,0,1,0,0,17,0,0,19,0,1,8,0,1,4,0,1,19,3,0,6,0,1,12,2,1,9,0,1,9,1,0,10,1,0,6,3,1,6,1,1,4,0,1,14,0,0,8,2,0,21,3,1,21,1,0,8,3,1,12,2,1,8,2
This machine is interesting. It does not look periodic, fractal-like patterns are slowly changing with time:
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#5,4,1,2,2,2,2,1,1,3,3,3,2,2,1,2,3,0,3,2,4,1,3,1,1,3,0,1,0,1,3,3,0,2,2,4,2,3,0,2,2,4,3,2,1,1,2,0,1,1,2,1,1,4,1,1,2,1,0,1,3,0
A related machine, but eventually diverge to static:
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#5,4,3,2,0,2,2,1,2,1,2,1,2,2,3,3,2,0,3,2,4,1,3,1,1,3,0,1,0,2,2,2,3,2,0,0,3,1,0,2,2,3,1,0,3,2,2,0,1,1,4,1,3,4,2,1,2,1,0,4,1,0
Update. One more: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#5,4,3,2,0,1,1,2,2,1,2,1,2,2,4,2,2,0,3,2,4,1,3,1,1,3,0,1,0,2,2,2,3,2,0,0,3,1,0,2,2,3,1,0,3,2,2,0,1,1,4,1,3,4,2,1,0,2,2,4,1,0
This is amazing. My favourites seem to always have only 2 states.
"sunset and nightfall":
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#2,15,0,3,1,1,1,3,1,10,1,0,14,2,0,3,1,1,2,3,1,11,0,1,5,1,0,9,2,1,3,0,1,10,2,0,1,1,1,5,3,1,2,1,1,4,2,1,11,1,1,14,0,0,8,3,0,12,3,1,10,3,0,3,2,1,9,0,0,9,0,1,14,3,1,1,3,1,8,2,1,9,2,0,9,0,0,8,1,0,8,1
"shoreline EQ"
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#2,22,1,6,2,0,6,0,0,21,1,1,1,3,0,10,3,0,13,3,0,13,1,0,14,2,0,6,1,1,11,0,0,4,0,1,12,3,0,4,0,0,7,1,0,7,2,0,2,1,0,4,3,1,19,1,0,7,1,1,5,0,0,15,0,0,7,2,1,6,1,1,8,0,1,7,0,0,6,1,0,19,3,0,10,2,0,6,0,1,14,1,1,13,1,1,15,0,0,8,1,0,2,0,1,16,3,1,3,1,0,9,0,1,15,0,0,11,2,0,13,3,0,13,3,0,17,0,1,14,2,1,5,2
Wow, I finally got a neat one via random. 4 states, 13 symbols, yields an interesting illusion of depth as "blocks" start moving towards and away from the viewer. Recommended two notches down from default speed, three down if you're patient.
http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,13,3,1,0,0,5,1,2,1,2,1,1,2,1,7,0,3,1,1,2,8,0,2,1,3,2,2,3,2,10,0,2,8,3,3,8,2,1,11,2,2,8,3,3,6,2,2,6,1,2,3,0,1,6,1,1,9,2,2,12,1,2,4,2,3,5,2,2,2,2,3,3,0,3,2,0,0,10,1,0,2,3,2,2,1,3,2,1,2,12,0,0,3,0,3,6,3,2,10,3,2,3,0,2,2,0,2,7,3,3,5,3,2,2,3,2,10,2,3,3,0,2,1,0,1,8,2,2,6,1,3,9,0,1,11,3,1,6,1,1,2,1,2,6,3,0,2,1,3,5,0,0,10,1,1,4,0