{"id":1940,"date":"2008-05-09T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2008-05-09T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T19:01:01","slug":"algorithmic-steampunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/05\/09\/algorithmic-steampunk\/","title":{"rendered":"Algorithmic Steampunk?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the annals of &#8220;is that really the word you wanted?&#8221; from a New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/08\/fashion\/08PUNK.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">article<\/a> on steampunk:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There seems to be this sort of perfect storm of interest in steampunk right now,&#8221; Mr. von Slatt said. &#8220;If you go to Google Trends and track the number of times it is mentioned, the curve is almost algorithmic from a year and a half ago.&#8221; (At this writing, Google cites 1.9 million references.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Certainly I can interpret this as saying that the trend has a curve which can be generated by an algorirthm, but I&#8217;m guessing Mr. von Slatt meant something else, considering that the curve which is always zero is also algorithmic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the annals of &#8220;is that really the word you wanted?&#8221; from a New York Times article on steampunk: &#8220;There seems to be this sort of perfect storm of interest in steampunk right now,&#8221; Mr. von Slatt said. &#8220;If you go to Google Trends and track the number of times it is mentioned, the curve &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/05\/09\/algorithmic-steampunk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Algorithmic Steampunk?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-ha-ha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}