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In which Terry delves into cybernetics, combinatorics and computer creativity.
The computer-generated version of my story A Bang On The Head was inspired by an observation by Italo Calvino, to the effect that if you think of a story as basically a combination of discrete elements, then once a person has come up with those elements it should be pretty easy for a computer program to create lots of possible stories from them. (If you’d like to read about the mathematics behind this idea,
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