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This is beautiful: The deeper the hustle the deeper the pain I wish I could play the Violin The thought of you is driving me insane Go to http://villane

by sanxiyn 10y ago

This is beautiful: The deeper the hustle the deeper the pain I wish I could play the Violin The thought of you is driving me insane Go to http://villanellebot.tumblr.com/post/148629267135/so-many-thoughts-it-makes-my-head-spin http://villanellebot.tumblr.com/post/148629267135/so-many-th... for the entire poem, and https://avoision.com/2015/08/26/villanelle-bot-poems-in-the-villanelle-form-created-using-random-posts-from-twitter.php https://avoision.com/2015/08/26/villanelle-bot-poems-in-the-... to learn how it was done.

coetry 10y ago
That actually is incredibly beautiful. It's crazy to think that the machine that generated it was devoid of the emotions behind this assembly of words.
- SCHiM 10y ago
  Well is it? At some point, either we become like machines, or the machines become like us. There is a limit to how many times we can redraw the lines.
  - TheLarch 10y ago
    The common distinction between machine and life seems arbitrary. Suppose for instance you had essentially infinite resources to design a machine that self-replicates by stealing blood from mammals, etc etc. You would end up with something very much like the mosquito. Why is it a machine only when man designs it? This is perhaps more apparent with viruses. They aren't living per se, but are halfway there. The assertion that the virus is not a machine seems to be a difference without a distinction.
    - jrlocke 10y ago
      The expression is "a distinction without a difference"
      - TheLarch 10y ago
        Oh yes! Thanks.
- SixSigma 10y ago
  Generating in the loosest sense. Code up the format of a villanelle and find Twitter posts to fit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanelle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanelle > VillanelleBot, created by Felix Jung, is a bot that composes villanelles using random posts from Twitter. Each line corresponds to a full post on Twitter If you click on the line it goes through to the tweet e.g. > i ate curly fries and shaker fries https://twitter.com/ahtaebvh/status/757935083135258626 https://twitter.com/ahtaebvh/status/757935083135258626

by sanxiyn 10y ago

coetry 10y ago

That actually is incredibly beautiful. It's crazy to think that the machine that generated it was devoid of the emotions behind this assembly of words.

SCHiM 10y ago
Well is it? At some point, either we become like machines, or the machines become like us. There is a limit to how many times we can redraw the lines.
- TheLarch 10y ago
  The common distinction between machine and life seems arbitrary. Suppose for instance you had essentially infinite resources to design a machine that self-replicates by stealing blood from mammals, etc etc. You would end up with something very much like the mosquito. Why is it a machine only when man designs it? This is perhaps more apparent with viruses. They aren't living per se, but are halfway there. The assertion that the virus is not a machine seems to be a difference without a distinction.
  - jrlocke 10y ago
    The expression is "a distinction without a difference"
    - TheLarch 10y ago
      Oh yes! Thanks.
SixSigma 10y ago
Generating in the loosest sense. Code up the format of a villanelle and find Twitter posts to fit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanelle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanelle > VillanelleBot, created by Felix Jung, is a bot that composes villanelles using random posts from Twitter. Each line corresponds to a full post on Twitter If you click on the line it goes through to the tweet e.g. > i ate curly fries and shaker fries https://twitter.com/ahtaebvh/status/757935083135258626 https://twitter.com/ahtaebvh/status/757935083135258626