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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

1901 points l2silver | 1 comments | 27 Apr 23 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.
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jonplackett ◴[28 Apr 23 07:59 UTC] No.35738707[source]▶
I made a gender swapping algorithm for my own use only. You put in any text and it outputs the exact same thing with all the genders reversed. Man to woman, he to she, Prince to princess, witch to wizard.

Then got a book deal to create a series of gender swapped illustrated books ‘Gender Swapped Fairy Tales’ and ‘Gender swapped Greek myths’

It seems like a simple enough task but gets complicated in weird ways. For example - his can swap to her or hers depending on the context. And her can swap to his of him depending on context.

The idea is to show the biases in the original stories that you are blind to because you’ve been reading them forever.

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1. shoo ◴[28 Apr 23 22:32 UTC] No.35747941[source]▶
tangentially to swapping gender in text, there's a section in Delany's novel Babel-17 where one character is trying to teach another character the concepts and language of "I" and "me" and "you", and the other character is getting these ideas mixed up. As a reader you're trying to follow this process from the dialogue.