February 2020

Interview: NaNoGenMo and coherence


Tags: natural language generation, research

A few months ago I was interviewed by Wired about NaNoGenMo 2019, an online programming challenge where participants try to build a novel-generator in 30 days. The interview was part of the background research for this Wired article.

I figured some people might be interested in this interview too, so I decided to put the questions and their answers up on my blog. I've rewritten some answers of my answers to clarify them -- the reporter who interviewed me had read my NaNoGenMo paper, but perhaps you haven't. :)

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