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The D&D Sorting Hat: Predicting Dungeons And Dragons Characters From Textual Backstories, Joseph C. Macinnes
The D&D Sorting Hat: Predicting Dungeons And Dragons Characters From Textual Backstories, Joseph C. Macinnes
Senior Independent Study Theses
Dungeons and Dragons is a tabletop roleplaying game which focuses heavily on character interaction and creating narratives. The current state of the game's character creation process often bogs down new players in decisions related to game mechanics, not a character's identity and personality. This independent study investigates the use of machine learning and natural language processing to make these decisions for a player based on their character's backstory - the textual biography or description of a character. The study presents a collection of existing characters and uses these examples to create a family of models capable of predicting a character's …
A Hott Approach To Computational Effects, Phillip A. Wells
A Hott Approach To Computational Effects, Phillip A. Wells
Senior Independent Study Theses
A computational effect is any mutation of real-world state that occurs as the result of a computation. We develop a model for describing computational effects within homotopy type theory, a branch of mathematics separate from other foundations such as set theory. Such a model allows us to describe programs as total functions over values while preserving information about the effects those programs induce.