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Eventually fermentation processes halt. In the case of mead, this may occur after a month; with neural nets, a process called simulated annealing intentionally decreases the learning rate every iteration; so the system begins by exploring large features then focuses on details. Eventually the learning rate diminishes to zero. Learning (fermentation) stops.

Concrete is a technological substance: a synthetic hard surface, impermeable, roadworthy. The intention of concrete poetry's founders (Eugen Gomringer in Switzerland and simultaneously the Noigandres group in Brazil) was to differentiate and distance *concrete* from the soft, emotional, labial ambiguity of traditional poetry; an inadvertent side effect of the initial intention is that a residual machismo clings to concrete poetry's exposition. —Aesthetic Animism, p. 26

“Remember, these are evolutionary amoebas, toddlers just learning to babble. The amazing thing is that without being given any syntax rules, they are speaking, generating a kind of prototypical glossolalia poem, character by character. Note: models are like wines, idiosyncratic reservoirs, the output of each has a distinct taste, — some have mastered open lines, others mutter densely, many mangle words to make neologisms  — each has obsessions. The Wavenet algorithm is analogous to a winery: its processes ensure that all of the models are similar. Tensorflow is the local region; recursive neural nets form the ecosystem. The corpus is the grapes.“

After you click a few boxes to get some tracks going, turn on WEAVE on the left and try playing with the threshold, tolerance and pause settings.