First timer

[Mac-Nerd]

My plan is to generate my work using an Apple II, either on real hardware or emulation.

[savetz]

Fun! Using BASIC?

[Mac-Nerd]

Assembly. Based on some Very Small Language Model experiments I've been working on.

The plan

• Tokenize the text of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (because why not)
• Compress and hash the token strings (length N characters) with candidate N+1 character options
• Hash a "prompt" phrase, search for matching token hashes.
• Choose the next character from appropriate candidates.
• Resulting string becomes next prompt.
• Repeat.

[Mac-Nerd]

Okay, so I've pivoted, partly because of the self-imposed limitations of using an Apple II became a rabbit hole that was going to take me well beyond the deadline, and also because I stumbled into a different solution while trying to simulate the output as a way to test my Apple II code's output.

It's in bash.

And it's one line. (with semicolons)

"Frankenstein's Governess"

[Mac-Nerd]

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Mac-Nerd/NaNoGenMo2024/refs/heads/main/Frankenstein's%20Governess.txt

Word count: 50,900

[Mac-Nerd]

I misread the instructions and closed my entry rather than waiting for it to be marked "completed" oopsie.