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Haiku Detector Update

On Monday I posted a quick-and-dirty Haiku Detector Mac application I’d written which finds haiku (in terms of syllable counts and line breaks, not aesthetics) in any given text. Since then I’ve made...

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Unintentional Haiku in the Princeton Companion to Mathematics

I’ve had a copy of the Princeton Companion to Mathematics for a while, and intended to start a series called ‘forms and formulae’, where I’d write about some of the articles using poetic forms from the...

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Unintentional Haiku from New Scientist, on Reality, Existence, and God

I’m not only behind on poems, I’m also behind on reading New Scientist magazine, so I’m just starting on a special issue with the ‘big questions’ with articles about reality, existence, God,...

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Unintentional Haiku from New Scientist, on Consciousness, Life, and Time

I’m going out tonight and won’t have time to finish writing a poem for NaPoWriMo, so here are the haiku that Haiku Detector detected in the next three topics of New Scientist’s special issue with the...

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Unintentional Haiku in Time Cube

I’m not sure if I’ll keep up the daily poems for NaPoWriMo for the rest of the month, because I remembered that the deadline for a short story contest I plan to enter is also at the end of the month,...

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Unintentional Haiku from New Scientist, on Self, Sleep, and Death

Following on from the posts on reality, existence, and God and consciousness, life, and time, here are the unintentional haiku that Haiku Detector found in the last three sections of New Scientist’s...

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Unintentional Haiku from New Scientist, on Shakespeare and Stuff

I’m still behind on New Scientist, so I’m now reading the issue which has a special feature on Shakespeare. It seemed like a good issue to look for poetry in. Here are the haiku that Haiku Detector...

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Unintentional Haiku from New Scientist on The Unknown Universe

I added some features to Haiku Detector so that it will find haiku made of more than one sentence, though I haven’t released the new version yet, since I’d like to release it on the Mac App store (even...

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Unintentional Haiku Spoken in a Courtroom 241 Years Ago

When I discovered that the court proceedings of the Old Bailey were available online, naturally I had to see whether they contained any haiku. The archive is too huge to put into Haiku Detector all at...

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Unintentional Haiku in New Scientist’s Medical Frontiers: The Movie

I’ve made a new version of Haiku Detector. The main changes are: Performance improvements Tweaks to which haiku are identified when punctuation is pronounced differently depending on line breaks and...

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Another Haiku Detector Update, and Some Observations on Mac Speech Synthesis

I subjected Haiku Detector to some serious stress-testing with a 29MB text file (that’s 671481 sentences, containing 16810 haiku, of which some are intentional) a few days ago, and kept finding more...

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Unintentional Haiku in the Mueller Report

Everyone’s talking about this Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election, so I dusted off Haiku Detector and looked for interesting haiku in it. A friend...

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Unintentional Haiku in my YouTube Video Descriptions

Since I wrote a little app to download much of my YouTube metadata, it was obvious that I needed to feed it through another little app I wrote: Haiku Detector. So I did. In all of my public YouTube...

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