generating poems - EMACS at CO

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Python programs that perform this task and their outputs are displayed in a book whose title is spelled “pound sign, exclamation point” and pronounced “shebang”. A trip to the Taiwanese park Taroko Gorge inspired Nick Montfort to write a program that does this, which led to many remix programs like Andrew Plotkin’s “Argot Ogre, OK!”. Founding Fluxus artist Alison Knowles wrote a FORTRAN program that was one of the first (-5[1])to perform this action, in her work The House of Dust. A floppy disk containing a program that does this and then encrypts (-5[1])itself is part of William Gibson’s Agrippa (0[1]-5[1])(A Book of the Dead). The reader performs this action by flipping between strips of paper in a work of (*) Oulipo literature by Raymond Queneau, partially titled for the number “one hundred thousand billion”. For 10 points, programs performing what action might need to keep track (10[2]0[1])of prosody and rhyme? ■END■

ANSWER: generating poems [accept any answer involving creating or writing poems or poetry; prompt on “generating literature” with “what genre?”; reject other genres like “novels” or “fiction” or “stories”]

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= Average correct buzz position

Conv. %	Power %	Average Buzz
50%	0%	145.00

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Vincent Du	Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping	a neural-net processor; a thinking machine	69	-5
Adam Fine	screaming into the public static void main(String[] args)	Edwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sins	92	-5
Swapnil Garg	We Bought a Complexity Zoo Story	playing emacs while my parents are arguing	99	-5
Rob Carson	Edwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sins	screaming into the public static void main(String[] args)	99	0
Aseem Keyal	Macro Editors	Dianetics for Diabetics	145	10
Kevin Wang	a neural-net processor; a thinking machine	Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping	145	0
Anuttam Ramji	playing emacs while my parents are arguing	We Bought a Complexity Zoo Story	145	10