Infinite State Machine Poetry in, with, and by Clojure
summary
Clojure code generates poems using a Markov chain on Keats (≈2,000 lines, ~13,660 words, ~80k chars) and a recurrent neural network on Shakespeare (≈125k lines, ~1M words, 5.6M chars). The Markov implementation is ~15 lines and yields Keats‑like phrases (it even spits out the name "Eric" once). The RNN (via DL4J) becomes pronounceable after ~50 minibatches and Shakespeare‑like after ~160; training takes a couple hours on a 2012 MacBook Air (no GPU). A Clojure program named REM cycle prints "know that they all lived happily ever after."
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Start
- 4:45Poem About the Machine
- 7:44Poems && Programs
- 11:01Poem.
- 11:31Corpus
- 12:10Markov Chain
- 13:05Prose Poem by A. Machine
- 18:50Humans Like Chocolate, Right?
- 21:23To Serve (Hu)man(s)
- 25:12The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks
- 26:12Show Me the Code
- 26:5410 Mini Batches
- 31:47TL;DPA
- 34:10Questions?
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