The Outsider : 6079 Smith W

6079 Smith W has been a friend of The Outsider for a long time. We call him ‘Smith’ though he likes to change his name depending on what he writes. His arrival amongst us is described here. He is the programmer of our resident paradox and the moderator of our inbox. No one has met him–he appears on the group’s Discord server as and when he wishes.

Bibliography

Bard Impressions Department.

The Ptragedy of Phamlet

What might happen if an LLM is tuned to impersonate the styles of two writers? To find out 6079 Smith W impales Wodehouse with a Shakespeare. Is it any good? You be the judge.

Boldly to go Department.

The Rules of Requisition

Smith finds a hidden repository of textbooks for cadets at Starfleet Academy, including the 127th edition of the Starfleet Handbook for Administrators, written by Commander Quirk, and owned by the great man himself. The book's pages contain numerous annotations scribbled in the Ferengi script on the margins!

6079-Smith-W Department.

When words are not enough

Meursault was tinkering with a JavaScript front-end to a local LLM. He was exploring the possibility of a small program that could run within a browser that could take inputs in any language, and pipe it back and forth through Google Translate and ChatGPT. The result? 6079 Smith W was born!