nobody remembers my robot "Milhaus".

[alexr_rwx]

This semester's AI term project: automated poetry. I'd always wanted to make a really good automatic poetry system. You'll say "I want these lines with this meter, with these lines rhyming..." and maybe if I get to it, "... and it should include these words and thematically related ones".

Maybe I can grab the OpenCyc "general knowledge base" and use that to figure out what's related to what. Maybe it can generate something likely with Markov chains and then munge that up to fit the constraints.

I wrote the syllable counter earlier tonight :)

Remember that automatic poetry bot from Cyberiad? Brett zip4096, I still haven't read Solaris... I'll get to it one of these years :)

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[zip4096.livejournal.com]

Oh!! I do remember Milhaus!! Did he work by, like, random_line(list1) + random_line(list2) + random_line(list3) ?

No worries on Solaris :) I find it heartwarming in a way, that years can go by and we still have books borrowed... :) Er, I think I left Cyberiad in Tally... I also have your copy of Flatland in my car! :)

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

*nods* He kept lists of n-syllable words as appropriately labelled instance variables... it was something very much like that :)

... and it brings a smile to my face, too :) (I was trying to remember where that copy of Flatland was, recently!) Shall we get together this weekend? Are you headed off to the great elsewhere again? How's that Cameron character doing?