Gabe Weintraub and I are teaming up for our Product Autopsy class to explore the supply chain mapping, carbon accounting, cost accounting, social impact analysis of on-demand video and the growth and efficiences of massive data centers.

Our initial research framework (super rough, hardly a framework yet really). This is basically one day's worth of googling on data centers, video streaming, ISPs, and Netflix. Netflix googling led to a super helpful email exchange which gave me a lot of the information I needed about Netflix's energy efficiencies.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-o3hlz4diyEeYSqs4Ldx_XJ-gcyEYOeVgpbsHbf4e-I/edit?ts=5614aa9d#slide=id.gcabd7e50c_0_8

I am excited to meet the challenge of telling a cohesive, compelling story about data in concrete, physical terms as it dovetails with my interests in systems, automation, Big Data, humanity's obsession with archives and record-keeping, energy apportionment in the time of capitalism and its antecedents, and notions of information as intangible and tangible. The latter somehow echoes my fascination with particle-wave duality and it would be nice to ferret out this connection - if not in this immediate project, for my science-fiction world-building schema.

This also is a nice complement to my Stratosphere of Surveillance class research/storytelling path (re Big Data). Also relevant to my work in Testing Tomorrows (Big Data) and Future Interfaces (Big Data). Nice!

I wanted to explore the meaninglessness of text by deconstructing or reducing it to an electronic data level: where in RAM are these strings and exactly how much memory do they occupy in terms of bits.

The form is a bit flat but I designed it to merely comply with the midterm assignment verbiage.

Devise a new poetic form.
Create a computer program that generates texts that conform to new poetic form you devised

Questions of rigour: Could a human do it better? It would be unfortunate to have to calculate the bytes and a human could not possibly find the place in space in which electrons as binary digits/bits have settled.

How does your choice of source text (your "raw material") affect the character and quality of the poems that your program generates? I think the fact that these lines are celebrated grand openers for celebrated works of pure representation/fiction is a nice contrast to the excruciating lack of imagination and factuality of this "poetic form."

OUTPUT:

Located at RAM address 4373218288, 'In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.' is a string of length 120 characters, 157 bytes and 1256 bits

Located at RAM address 4396564032, 'Take my camel, dear, said my Aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass.' is a string of length 105 characters, 142 bytes and 1136 bits.

Located at RAM address 4396885808, 'I am an invisible man.' is a string of length 22 characters, 59 bytes and 472 bits.

Located at RAM address 4457509712, 'It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.' is a string of length 123 characters, 160 bytes and 1280 bits.

Located at RAM address 4456529592, 'The Miss Lonelyhearts of the New York Post-Dispatch (Are you in trouble?—Do-you-need-advice?—Write-to-Miss-Lonelyhearts-and-she-will-help-you) sat at his desk and stared at a piece of white cardboard.' is a string of length 204 characters, 241 bytes and 1928 bits.

INPUT - 100 best first lines from modern novels

http://americanbookreview.org/100bestlines.asp

Example of ALTERNATE OUTPUT:

Located at RAM address 4459266096, 'The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.' is a string of length 201 characters, 238 bytes and 1904 bits.

The binary represenation of this sentence is:

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