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Re: Times Haikus

#11

Post by tome » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 4:13 PM UTC

This is hilarious. With a bit of tweaking it could be made to only detect "haikus" whose lines end at suitable grammatical boundaries rather than word boundaries. I think this would give rise to a higher quality selection.

Re: Times Haikus

#12

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 4:13 PM UTC

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Re: Times Haikus

#13

Post by lurker14 » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 4:19 PM UTC

martythemaniak wrote: post #10

quarterto wrote: post #2

Someone complaining "these aren't real haiku" in 3... 2...

The cadence of these Don't match my expectations Try harder NY Times

Haiku Challenges Expectation of Cadence Counting Syllables

Re: Times Haikus

#14

Post by sw007 » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 4:19 PM UTC

simonsarris wrote: post #3

Oh my I adore this. His deadly prose is so authentic that it has a life of its own. But ordering street food and riding the subway had become old hat. "As an engineer, I'm sort of a student of how things fall apart." I love short stories, and I firmly believe that one of the secrets to good storytelling is to be compact in emotion (let it expand in the reader's head) and start as close to the end as possible. These h…

Slight tangent but if you love short stories then you'll probably like the famous "6 worded story" by Ernest Hemingway. Unbelievable that he could write such an emotional story in 6 words. If you haven't read it - it's here:

“For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

Re: Times Haikus

#15

Post by binarymax » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 4:21 PM UTC

el_devo wrote: post #7

binarymax wrote: post #6

Because of the auto-scroll, this was a bit out of reach: http://haiku.nytimes.com/about

There is also a link in the upper-right corner of the page that avoids this problem.

Thanks, my fault, Ghostery completely hid that from me.

Re: Times Haikus

#16

Post by jdmitch » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 4:22 PM UTC

if:

in_ruby=i=o=

gets();taken_care_of_by_a=

function_like = puts(i)

(from http://web.colby.edu/jasperry/2011/11/10/a-ruby-haiku/)

and:

Haskell is concise

Functional well-typed and neat

It is like Haiku

(from http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haiku)

and:

Journo is coffee's

literate publishing app

terse prose, wordy code

(inspired by http://ashkenas.com/literate-coffeescript/)

...then why is terse programming less expressive and terse literature more expressive?

Re: Times Haikus

#17

Post by selamattidur » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 4:26 PM UTC

sw007 wrote: post #14

simonsarris wrote: post #3

Oh my I adore this. His deadly prose is so authentic that it has a life of its own. But ordering street food and riding the subway had become old hat. "As an engineer, I'm sort of a student of how things fall apart." I love short stories, and I firmly believe that one of the secrets to good storytelling is to be compact in emotion (let it expand in the reader's head) and start as close to the end as possible. These h…

Slight tangent but if you love short stories then you'll probably like the famous "6 worded story" by Ernest Hemingway. Unbelievable that he could write such an emotional story in 6 words. If you haven't read it - it's here: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

Here's a collection of modern-day 6-word memoirs: http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/

Re: Times Haikus

#18

Post by conesus » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 4:38 PM UTC

    Stellar job journos
    But this raises the question
    How much does it cost

Re: Times Haikus

#19

Post by gruseom » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 4:40 PM UTC

sw007 wrote: post #14

simonsarris wrote: post #3

Oh my I adore this. His deadly prose is so authentic that it has a life of its own. But ordering street food and riding the subway had become old hat. "As an engineer, I'm sort of a student of how things fall apart." I love short stories, and I firmly believe that one of the secrets to good storytelling is to be compact in emotion (let it expand in the reader's head) and start as close to the end as possible. These h…

Slight tangent but if you love short stories then you'll probably like the famous "6 worded story" by Ernest Hemingway. Unbelievable that he could write such an emotional story in 6 words. If you haven't read it - it's here: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

This wasn't Hemingway. It's been traced back to several newspapers from the early 1900s.

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/28/baby-shoes/

Re: Times Haikus

#20

Post by bw2 » Mon, Apr 01, 2013, 4:41 PM UTC

I wonder if he used any code from a story [1] posted last week.

http://mobile.theverge.com/culture/2013/3/18/4118916/finding...