{"id":772,"date":"2003-07-29T04:05:25","date_gmt":"2003-07-29T04:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=772"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:20","slug":"poetry-red-in-tooth-and-claw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"poetry red in tooth and claw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Poems are duking it out in a Darwinian sense on  David Rea&#8217;s website. He&#8217;s designed a computer program that allows poems  to evolve. Starting with 1,000 random words culled from &#8220;Hamlet,&#8221;  &#8220;Beowulf,&#8221; and the &#8220;Iliad,&#8221; among others, his program randomly assembles  them to create a short verse. If you visit his website  (www.codeasart.com\/poetry\/darwin.html), you are given two of these  verses and you choose the one you like best. The unpopular ones are  killed off, but the poems with the most votes get to &#8220;breed&#8221; with each  other, exchanging words like genes. Rea has also programmed in a  mutation, where every new poem has a one-in-a-thousand chance of having a  dropped or added word, or a word shifting its place. The resulting  offspring poems are once again put up and voted on, and so on and so  forth. After enough generations, Rea says on his site, &#8220;we should  eventually start to see interesting poems emerge.&#8221; One recent survivor  of this (un)natural selection was &#8220;Hellhound the beds though  to\/Puppeteer shout ho recesses now\/For in the sphere it is cricket  curfews\/With therein of stolen.&#8221; Charmingly incoherent as it is, it  looks like poetry requires a creator.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 7\/29\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poems are duking it out in a Darwinian sense on David Rea&#8217;s website. He&#8217;s designed a computer program that allows poems to evolve. Starting with 1,000 random words culled from &#8220;Hamlet,&#8221; &#8220;Beowulf,&#8221; and the &#8220;Iliad,&#8221; among others, his program randomly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=772\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1165,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/1165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}