Many A Hubot

I’ve spent the last few nights working and reworking through a tangential thought.

I was thinking about so many examples of recombinatory ideas. By this I mean all those largely successful ideas that stem from the simple combination of multiple other, simpler ideas. Usually, these precursor memes are well-known or outmoded.

This means that any sufficiently informed person is a hotbed, ripe for successful recombinatory ideas (or so we all hope). Usually, we are able to recombine facts and fiction during moments of relaxation (good ideas happen in the shower). I spent the last few nights trying to build a service to do that for me.

This was the general scaffolding for the bot:

• Accept input of text I had written (my thoughts)
• Accept and index text I had read (articles and emails and such)
• Index both of those
• Produce Markov chains from this seed input on a regular pace throughout the day
• Send these recombinatory (markov chain) sentences to me for inspiration
• Repeat

Ultimately, I decided to halt any more development. After further thought (get it?), I think my time could better be spent actually enforcing relaxation time for myself and focusing on increasing my self-indexing ability. Part of that is writing more. Concentration, concatenation, contextualization.