Doghead's Cosmic Bar
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A Royal C. Mountie named Morse, eh,
Fell madly in love with his horse, eh.
His wife said, "you rapscallion,
That horse is a stallion.
This constitutes grounds for divorce, eh."
Fell madly in love with his horse, eh.
His wife said, "you rapscallion,
That horse is a stallion.
This constitutes grounds for divorce, eh."
From the depths of the crypt of Saint Giles
Came a yell that resounded for miles.
Said Jerome, 'Goodness Gracious,
has Brother Ignatius
forgotten the Bishop has piles?
Came a yell that resounded for miles.
Said Jerome, 'Goodness Gracious,
has Brother Ignatius
forgotten the Bishop has piles?
and I suppose, since someone mentioned haiku:
how many nuns could
live for a month on an ounce
of friar's balsam?
But I do think they work better in the original unstressed Japanese. The rhythm of English detracts from the form.
how many nuns could
live for a month on an ounce
of friar's balsam?
But I do think they work better in the original unstressed Japanese. The rhythm of English detracts from the form.
And bad it is, lol
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Writes limerick contest entries -- may I?
My program makes a sample,
These five lines, for example.
And here is the result. Not bad, say I.
(from OEDILF, an amazing project)
Writes limerick contest entries -- may I?
My program makes a sample,
These five lines, for example.
And here is the result. Not bad, say I.
(from OEDILF, an amazing project)
Ah, but could it write a sonnet, do you think?
For even Kurzweil's Cybernetic Poet
Couldn't hold a steady metre, though it
Sometimes managed rhymes that didn't stink.
When AI comes of age perhaps we'll see
a plethora of virtual poets born?
We'll know the bots are sentient when they form
their chat between each-other metric'lly.
What electronic Chaucer, Donne and Bard
will argue for acceptance by Mankind?
First they must jump through hoops - the Turing test,
And overcome resistance long and hard.
What critical reception will they find,
I wonder - will it turn out for the best?
For even Kurzweil's Cybernetic Poet
Couldn't hold a steady metre, though it
Sometimes managed rhymes that didn't stink.
When AI comes of age perhaps we'll see
a plethora of virtual poets born?
We'll know the bots are sentient when they form
their chat between each-other metric'lly.
What electronic Chaucer, Donne and Bard
will argue for acceptance by Mankind?
First they must jump through hoops - the Turing test,
And overcome resistance long and hard.
What critical reception will they find,
I wonder - will it turn out for the best?
Cheecky lizard. There's nothing hard about talking in an umpty-umpty way, for them as likes it.
I don't know what this "toorring" thing is, but I don't hold with people who just come around firing questions at me. That's just rude,that is. Proper people don't do that.
I don't know what this "toorring" thing is, but I don't hold with people who just come around firing questions at me. That's just rude,that is. Proper people don't do that.
There once was a lady from Kent,
Whose nose was awefully bent.
One day I suppose,
She followed her nose,
And no one knew which way she went.
Whose nose was awefully bent.
One day I suppose,
She followed her nose,
And no one knew which way she went.
I'm sure you could program a bot to write an iambically correct and original sonnet... I can think of a few ways to program that.
But it would be incredibly annoying if they started speaking entirely in iambic pentameter...
But it would be incredibly annoying if they started speaking entirely in iambic pentameter...
Yes, but then the bot is writting to human standards and not there own. What is so great about Iambic pentameters. Why couldn't humans learn to appreciate botic poetry.
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