162: Interactive Fiction
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In the latest episode of Programming Throwdown, we delve into the captivating world of interactive fiction. We explore: Wordnet, Inform, and how games in the past have been the forerunners of today’s NLP challenges.

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00:00:22 Introductions

00:00:39 To hard mode or not to hard mode

00:08:58 No moats in Google

00:16:37 Stable Diffusion blows Jason’s mind

00:21:31 Putting beats together

00:23:38 GPT4All

00:27:44 White Sand

00:35:28 Fortuna

00:38:55 Patrick’s ‘dirty’ secret

00:47:20 Wordnet

00:53:56 Procedural generation

00:57:29 On tabletop RPGs

01:00:48 Inform

01:07:27 Farewells

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News/Links:

• Google: We have no moat and neither does OpenAI

• https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither)

• Stable Diffusion QR Codes

• https://stable-diffusion-art.com/qr-code/) 

• Beginning to Make Music

• https://learningmusic.ableton.com/)

• GPT4All

• https://gpt4all.io/index.html)

• Wordnet:

• https://wordnet.princeton.edu/)

• Inform:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inform)

Book of the Show

• Patrick:

• White Sand https://amzn.to/43CPMKA)

• Jason: 

• The Fortuna https://www.generativefiction.com/)

Tool of the Show

• Jason:

• Gatsby.js https://www.gatsbyjs.com/)

• Patrick: 

• Peglin https://store.steampowered.com/app/1296610/Peglin/)

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