Category: doggerel
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Samyro 0.0.1 – development update
Last week I posted a new Python package to Pypi: Samyro, my toolkit for doing RNN-based character synthesis of new text from given text. I summarize in tweets the journey to the release of the project. There’s lots more to do, but much of the experimentation now is based on changing the input texts that…
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Gnu ears eavesdropping
My mother sent me a link to this amazing doggerel (credited to G. Nolst Trenité) about the insane relationship between English spelling and pronunciation, which I quote from here (the link’s poem is much, much longer): Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I…
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Plurals of the many-footed
I never hugged an octopus I wonder what they’d think of us? Would they think us all wusses not to embrace the octopuses? And even more with octopi We’re outnumbered limb (and eye) or is the word “octopodes“? I think I’d better stop with these. Apologies (or blame) to Kory Stamper and Stan Carey, whose…