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Llamas and my stegosaurus
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Llamas and my stegosaurus is a personal blog at llamasandmystegosaurus.blogspot.com about ai and philosophy. Since 2017, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “A Translation of Genesis I using word2vec”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its 'alpha' translation of Genesis 1, written using only words starting with 'a', and for a word2vec tool that generates rhyming definitions. Most comments cite it as a reference point.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A Translation of Genesis I using word2vec4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-05-23
- Alpha: A translation of Genesis 12 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-07-27
What Hacker News says?
Maybe you saw https://llamasandmystegosaurus.blogspot.com/2017/05/alpha.ht... a year or two ago which does something similar in generating rhyming definitions, also using a word2vec approach.
Comment linking /2017/05/alpha.html
on “Portmanteau Generator”Submitted Alpha: A translation of Genesis 1 as a story · 133 points
HN discussionFrom the comments, someone created an "S" version. [0] Also this exercise reminds me of How The World Was Saved (Jak Ocalał Świat)[1][2] [0] http://llamasandmystegosaurus.blogspot.com/2017/05/alpha.htm... [1] https://english.lem.pl/works/novels/the-cyberiad/146-how-the... [2] (first story) http://lib.mlm.ru/pl_stanislaw_lem_cyberiada.htm
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on “Alpha: A translation of Genesis 1”Submitted Alpha (A translation of Genesis 1) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou might like this, then: a word2vec tool which suggests words of the same rough meaning starting with a particular letter or spelling, allowing you to write Genesis solely in words starting with 'a' https://llamasandmystegosaurus.blogspot.com/2017/05/alpha.ht... or generate large numbers of rhyming definitions (see comments), some examples of which: Cat: purr fur Dolphin: bark shark Puppy: yelp welp Shetland pony:…
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on “Show HN: Cyborg Writer - In-Browser Text Editor with Neural Autocomplete”Submitted How the world was built for us as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI've enjoyed lipograms a lot (in the past practicing not only writing but also speaking without "E"), and also admired these two tautogrammatic translations of the Genesis creation story https://llamasandmystegosaurus.blogspot.com/2017/05/alpha.ht... https://calvinballing.github.io/saga/ so much that I recently wrote my own tautogram-in-B version of the same text (just finishing yesterday!). I'm going to publish it…
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on “Lipogram”Submitted A Translation of Genesis I using word2vec as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSince the article is kind of shallow, here are a few atypical approaches to Biblical translation I’ve found interesting over the years: • The Five Books of Moses, by Everett Fox, who attempts to retain in English the underlying poetry of the Hebrew like alliteration, meter, wordplay, and so on. ( https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/55160/the-five-book... ) • The Books of the Bible: not a new translation (it’s j…
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on “Translating the Bible is a vexed task”If you enjoy that, you might also enjoy this version that I wrote https://godexperiment.org/beginnings-an-alliterative-rewrite... It was inspired by these versions: https://llamasandmystegosaurus.blogspot.com/2017/05/alpha.ht... https://calvinballing.github.io/saga/
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on “The longest word you can type on the first row of a QWERTY keyboard”