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The Longest Poem in the World
- Banzai10 17y agoThat was cool, maybe if you try to add another kind of rhymes it would be cool also.
- nathanb 17y agoYeah, or maybe only choose lines that are in iambic pentameter.
- cschep 17y agoHmm. Haiku version?
- JacobAldridge 17y agoGo full hog - Shakespearean Sonnets!
- movix 17y agoIt's cool. Like an ode to banality.
- unalone 17y agoBanality is the root of all art. I think the idea of a poem written by the entire planet* is rather romantic myself. *kind of
- movix 17y agoI think it falls beautifully into the romantic surrealist genre, and appauld it for doing so. I wasn't criticising banality, though I would disagree with with your commment on banality is the root of all art. What are you basing this on?
- diN0bot 17y agobeautiful merging of "machine" and "human." the lines themselves are quite emotive: i hadn't read 'normal/banal' tweets before and they're quite expressive. the algorithm that selects rhymes either happened to be doing great as i watched, or actually takes into account syllables and removes spam and urls. edit: here's an example (4 consecutive lines chosen because they convey a strange meaning): > Don't you hate it when you call someone back and they don't answer! > RIP Dominick Dunne and Ted Kennedy. Damn you, cancer. > Furthermore, it feeds on other animals and eggs. THIS IS MADNESS!! > Somewhere between a lot of happiness and sadness.
- Dilpil 17y agoMy favorite rhyme: "Sex and the City ruined women for me. wtching coffee prince and lovin it =D"
- timdorr 17y agoThis was my fave: it's just me and the keyboard tonight... Then I think of you and it's alright.
- asmosoinio 17y agotwo separate lines, as in you read the "dee" out loud?
- Dilpil 17y agoExactly.
- nopassrecover 17y agoI like how it detects rhymes. I've never looked into that but it sounds non-trivial (unless you just have a map).
- Frocer 17y agoYa, could someone explain how this algorithm works?
- gojomo 17y agoThere are rhyming dictionaries, but also just parsing the pronunciation indicators of a traditional dictionary for matching end-sounds would work -- and allow matching syllable counts as well. Wiktionary includes pronunciation guides in 'IPA' symbols: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet There's also 'soundex' encoding of names/words... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundex
- Frocer 17y agoAhh... I see. I didn't even know such dictionaries existed! Thanks!
- hughprime 17y agoI assume it just looks it up in a rhyming dictionary.
- karanbhangui 17y agohttp://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=81 http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=81 Excellent post on a more advanced implementation.
- chrischen 17y agoI have a syllable counter, we should merge it!
- mik 17y agoanother longest poem on twitter (possibly an inspiration): http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1917882,00.html http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1917882,00.htm...