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Jaquemart Waltz - the computer poetry movement

perhaps the most exemplary current practitioner being the twitterbot @poem_exe

GPT-written manifesto:

Hark! from those shadowy depths thy voice / Mournfully echoes, "AUTH". | MetaFilter. Markov Masher. Another sonnetizing computer. Markov Engine. Doctor Nerve's Markov Page This page allows the writer to type in prose or poetry, and submit it to a Markov Chain engine. This engine munches through the writer's text, performs a statistical analysis, and spits out statistically similar text. Another Cyber DADA online creativity enhancement tool by NerveWare.

Type or paste in your text: Enter how many words you want to be generated (1000 max): or Fun IdeasTwisted Results Back to Nerve Interactive. The Shannonizer: Notes on Computer-Generated Text. Contents of this page: Claude Shannon, the "father of information science" Word pairs as a tool for analyzing linguistic style But is that computer actually saying anything?

, or, philosophical considerations on computer-generated text Claude Shannon My prediction (remember, you heard it here first) is that the name of Claude Elwood Shannon (1916- ) will be a household word 250 years from now. Historians of the future will hail Shannon as the father of the Information Age, much as we now see Newton as the author of the Scientific Revolution, some 250 years previously. Both Shannon and Newton created a solid mathematical foundation for the key technologies of their age (Shannon for information and communication theory, Newton for mechanical physics), thus turning them into true sciences and unleashing vast changes in knowledge, industry, and society. Shannon's master's thesis (MIT, 1937) investigated the use of electrical circuits to model logical statements. Word pairs [Home] . . List of Text Generators (2006) 2 from horizon, may 1962. Imagine performed music to be forbidden --& a hundred years passes--& only those who can read sheet music to themselves, imagining the notes in their head, have music.

A couple of computer poems from Horizon, May '62: The broad sleighs of glass are dashing hungrily, She is a toilet of dissolute water, and I am those bland melodies. So, chess was arsenic and gold was beer, It was a snail of murmuring beer, and I am those angry nets. He was lustier than the twine and more bold than the shop. The milk of plates upon many sands of cream was like consummate magnates. " Few fingers go like narrow laughs. What one must know about the Sun. No fasting on the Day of Doubt. Poetry CreatOR2. Definition. The policeman's beard is half constructed (1984) A literary magazine written by machines, for people. Computer sonnets. Computer-written sonnets How can the purple yeti be so red, Or chestnuts, like a widgeon, calmly groan?

No sheep is quite as crooked as a bed, Though chickens ever try to hide a bone. I grieve that greasy turnips slowly march: Indeed, inflated is the icy pig: For as the alligator strikes the larch, So sighs the grazing goldfish for a wig. Oh, has the pilchard argued with a top? Say never that the parsnip is too weird! I tell thee that a wolf-man will not hop And no man ever praised the convex beard. Effulgent is the day when bishops turn: So let not then the doctor wake the urn! Shall I compare thee to a noxious bed? Oh major-general, tell me why the crane Should be delinquent when the chickens melt: A rotting goldfish never oils a brain, Although 'tis true that urchins mend a pelt.

Jonathan R. Haiku generator. Horse_ebooks. ISSUE ONE - erica t. carter & human parnassus (showing 1-1 of 1) Issue 1 Fall 2008.