{"id":4583,"date":"2013-01-11T18:28:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T18:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4583"},"modified":"2013-01-11T18:28:01","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T18:28:01","slug":"sample-on-randomness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4583","title":{"rendered":"Sample on Randomness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Sample has posted his gem of a MLA paper on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/2013\/01\/08\/an-account-of-randomness-in-literary-computing\/\">An Account of Randomness in Literary Computing<\/a>. I wish I could write papers quite so clear and evocative. He combines interesting historical examples to a question that crosses all sorts of disciplines &#8211; that of randomness. He shows how the importance of randomness connects to poetic experiments in computing.<\/p>\n<p>I would recommend reading the article immediately, but I discovered, as with many good works, I ended up spending a lot of time following up the links and reading stuff on sites like the MIT 150 Exhibition which has a section on <a href=\"http:\/\/museum.mit.edu\/150\/theme\/analogdigital-mit\">Analog\/Digital MIT<\/a> with online exhibits on subjects like the MIT Project Athena and the TX-0. Instead I will warn &#8211; beware of reading interesting things!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Sample has posted his gem of a MLA paper on An Account of Randomness in Literary Computing. I wish I could write papers quite so clear and evocative. He combines interesting historical examples to a question that crosses all sorts of disciplines &#8211; that of randomness. He shows how the importance of randomness connects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4583\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sample on Randomness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4584,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions\/4584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}