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Can poems breed?. From Social Studies in today's Globe and Mail: David Rea has designed a computer program that allows poems to evolve, reports The Boston Globe. "Starting with 1,000 random words culled from Hamlet, Beowulf and the Iliad, among others, his program randomly assembles them to create a short verse. If you visit his Web site (www.codeasart.com/poetry/darwin.html), you are given two of these verses and you choose the one you like [better]. The unpopular ones are killed off, but the poems with the most votes get to ‘breed’ with each other, exchanging words like genes. Rea has also programmed in a mutation,... [mirabilis.ca]
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How Popular is your name?
Interesting to see the breakdowns of various names. But it's strange: Elizabeth and Betty are listed differently, as are Steve, Steven, and Stephen.
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© Copyright 2004 Steve Michel.
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