Remarkable, Incredible and Amazing nerdiness
This is a cool project – attempting to get models to caption and analyse comics – https://github.com/emanuelevivoli/CoMix
https://github.com/emanuelevivoli/CoMix
Visual – Language models should be continually improving.
Try Gemma and Qwen for example and see how they go in a simple chatbot interface.
Good things of the 21st century
RPG Historian Shannon Appelcline produces a hardback tome on Traveller, how can you not love this?
Just started, but it is good.
What might be like what in this less than ideal game pdf hackery, here is an example:
These 2 examples, not too bad.
I made a gloVe embedding model based on my game book collection – 7000 odd, of which 6000 or so managed to make it through a first pass pdf extraction pipeline
This framework is quite good https://github.com/NRCan/geoscience_language_models/tree/main/project_tools
https://github.com/NRCan/geoscience_language_models/tree/main/project_tools and parallelises, which is important for big books
The C version of gloVe is superior:
https://github.com/stanfordnlp/GloVe
With some work you can get a python version going, but I wouldn’t recommend for large numbers.
e.g. https://pypi.org/project/glove-py
and associated hacks..
The Notebook associated with this is here: https://github.com/bluetyson/RPG-gloVe-Model
These days microsoft probably won’t let you see something that big online, so will make a series of post excerpts.
Here’s a google doc with a list
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fWzs6hRpx8ZTOpLWAUy7B0wRwopkzWC0yvr8i-7r1pQ/edit#gid=0
https://shutteredroom.blogspot.com/2023/12/slaine-and-ukko-for-basic-games.html
On creating these sort of inspiration-for-genre heroes in D&D games.
In this case, the pair from 2000AD.
Campaign wiki style.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2023-08-13_Random_generators_on_wiki_pages
https://github.com/modality/abulafia
The old random generators – instructions on how to get this running again.
This is a classic move in this game recap
https://barkingalien.blogspot.com/2023/12/kineto-returns-inthe-return-of-return.html
Cryptid megaladons make good game monsters. Bonus points for black and attacking at night.
