{"id":7272,"date":"2020-11-08T16:34:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T21:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/?p=7272"},"modified":"2020-11-13T03:26:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T08:26:18","slug":"yanwen-gpt2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/yanwendandrew-cmu-edu\/11\/08\/yanwen-gpt2\/","title":{"rendered":"yanwen-GPT2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s been a while. <\/strong>I think it was after we had done some field work. That&#8217;s when he turned up, looking for the hedgehog that he had hoped would be the first and only wildlife encounter of my summer. &#8220;I have a weakness for animal &#8211; shaped cereal and do you mind if I eat my breakfast in your garden, my love?&#8221; he asked me after a hard morning of plant identification. What followed was a series of photographs of an edible plant and two field notes about various indigestible insects. We sat quietly for a while,<\/p>\n<p>Favorite parts: &#8220;I have a weakness for animal &#8211; shaped cereal&#8221; and &#8220;indigestible insects&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Why are Sundays so depressing? <\/strong>There&#8217;s no hope for me. At this rate, I&#8217;ll never be done with this book. I had an idea the other day for a story, and then I started plotting and realised that that particular idea was a year old and I still didn&#8217;t know what it was, what it meant, where it was going, who was in it. Not so good, no? At least I got a few plot lines down. Also I felt miserable today for no particular reason. I realised, after my mission in 1997, that Sundays were the worst days of the week for me. So long<\/p>\n<p>Seems like the train of thoughts of an anxious novelist. I like the &#8220;mission in 1997&#8221; part. Could be the start of a short story or something.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Do you think there is life on Mars?<\/strong> If so, have they found any evidence? Email your thoughts to AskAlaskan@wamc.org.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think there is life on Mars? <\/strong>I don&#8217;t know. I have not gone there. I don&#8217;t know about life. I only think it is a very harsh environment. With the arrival of Narendra Modi in 2014, you were made a cabinet minister in the Narendra Modi cabinet. A lot of good things have happened in the country. I have come to understand that we were in wrong direction. Things will be different now. We will give good governance. Your ally Shiv Sena was a critic of Modi in 2014 election. Did you think he would come back to power in 2019?<\/p>\n<p>I continued the question form and couldn&#8217;t decide which output was better. Love how the first one was short but funny enough. The second one had a very interesting development and suddenly went political unexpectedly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while. I think it was after we had done some field work. That&#8217;s when he turned up, looking for the hedgehog that he had hoped would be the first and only wildlife encounter of my summer. &#8220;I have a weakness for animal &#8211; shaped cereal and do you mind if I eat &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/yanwendandrew-cmu-edu\/11\/08\/yanwen-gpt2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;yanwen-GPT2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7275,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7272\/revisions\/7275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/60-212\/f2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}