Month: April 2022
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Banks’ Rose
I was at a river of chocolateThere she was, Banks’ Rosethousands upon thousandstiny bouquets dangling like wind-chimesfleeting, fragile, delicate. I stand with her at a T-junction,where time standsstretching thininvisible. She’ll soon dieBut I’ll be here,waiting for the rose and her fragrant, soft petalslingering around just enough to be solovable, magical, fantastical.
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Ode to the Octopus
Eight limbsShe’s not simply crawlingShe is the Kraken that watches the waterlike she’s got eight eyes,circling her universefor every lump, every bump, every slit, every crack. So watch out when she comesshe is the Medusa of the seapivoting, sucking on her preywrapping enemies into her wombdrowning them in ink so black they’d wonderif it were…
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Juniper for Jupyter
My mind is stuffed, likea holiday turkey, full of breadand celery and spicesof a lifeTwo scores, and then some So forgive the mind, if it takesColdplay for Cold StoneJuniper for Jupyter Though I’ve wondered, Has it figured out the shortest pathto reach the deepest corner,the oldest door isloosely coupledwith iambs and rhymesheuristicallyapproximatelyprobabilistically Once upon a…
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ML for Creative Writing, Cont.
“You shall know a word by the company it keeps!” is the historically common approach to linguistic modeling. It uses word vectoring, or word embedding, to train a set of word vectors based on a large corpus of text. With each word represented by a point in the embedding space, these points are learned and…
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Silken Tofu
Unless tofu is life, one would think it too much effort to ferment soy whey just to make tofu. But in East Asia, soy is life; as in elsewhere, cow milk is life. Just as folks have devised myriad ways to process cow milk, others have accumulated knowledge over millennia to turn soybeans into soy…
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