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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 06:55:07 JST Paul Cantrell

   • Hrefna (DHC)
   • Jenniferplusplus
   • datarama

   @datarama @jenniferplusplus @hrefna
   Little Prolog
   deep in the AI winter
   writing haiku

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 06:48:39 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Hrefna (DHC)
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     @datarama @jenniferplusplus @hrefna
     Semi-relevant tidbits of trivia:

     1. Haiku in Japanese don’t count syllables; they count •morae•. (A mora is a related but distinct syllable-adjacent concept that is focused on time, and includes things like vowel length.)

     2. The 5-7-5 pattern isn’t even the most important distinguishing feature of a haiku. Serious haiku authors in English only obliquely reference it, or ignore it entirely.

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     datarama (datarama@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 06:48:40 JST datarama

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     @jenniferplusplus @hrefna A very long time ago, I wrote a haiku generator in Prolog as a dumb little Sunday afternoon project.

     After manually setting up a bunch of (word, word class, syllable count) triples, I decided to see if there was some neat way I could automate identifying and counting syllables. The first search results were actual PhD theses on it, so I figured "neat" was off the table and declared it out of scope.

     BTW:
     hot processor runs
     wonderful byte of error
     cold processor sleeps.

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     Jenniferplusplus (jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 06:48:41 JST Jenniferplusplus

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     @hrefna last time I looked, linguists don't have a good definition of syllables either. It's just that linguists know and acknowledge that.

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     Hrefna (DHC) (hrefna@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 06:48:42 JST Hrefna (DHC)

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     Especially entertaining with this one so far has been asking it to analyze poetic metre, because it can't seem to figure out what a syllable is.

     Or what a line is, for that matter.

     Maybe some of the others might be doing better, but I have my doubts.

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     Hrefna (DHC) (hrefna@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 06:48:43 JST Hrefna (DHC)

     In honor of people using generative AI to grade papers and out of morbid curiosity, I've run some poems through a generative AI and asked it to analyze them and the results are _all sorts_ of terrible. Like just. Remarkably bad.

     It often thinks the poetry is good (which is what I would expect, the poetry is in fact very good), but its analysis of how and why is just out in left field.

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     Hrefna (DHC) (hrefna@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 07:00:45 JST Hrefna (DHC)

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     @inthehands

     Hm. If I may?

     Little prolog
     deep in the AI winter
     dreams of haiku;
     quietly generating
     a senryū in its place

     @datarama @jenniferplusplus

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 07:14:08 JST Paul Cantrell

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     @hrefna @datarama @jenniferplusplus
     “Who called it ‘threading,’
     says the readhead shitposter,
     instead of ‘renga?’”

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 10-Mar-2024 12:41:59 JST Paul Cantrell

     • Hrefna (DHC)
     • Jenniferplusplus
     • datarama

     @datarama @jenniferplusplus @hrefna
     It sounds truly delightful.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 01:10:45 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Hrefna (DHC)
     • Jenniferplusplus
     • datarama

     @irenes @datarama @jenniferplusplus @hrefna
     Glad somebody caught that sly joke!

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     Irenes (many) (irenes@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 01:10:46 JST Irenes (many)

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     • Hrefna (DHC)
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     @inthehands @datarama @jenniferplusplus @hrefna oh WELL played. as you presumably know, the season reference IS a core haiku thing :D