Sorting algorithms and editing

Yes it has all been quiet. An editing kind of quiet.

Lots going on but not much to see. As a result I have enjoyed looking at the visualisation of sorts by Timo Bingmann.

Audibilisation too!

Sorting algorithms have a weird fascination for me and encourage me to think of a kind of mechanisation of editing.

So imagine some different passes:

• checking for duplicate words - are they good/bad/emphatic/a mistake
• internal rhyme - wow! just enjoy it...maybe turn it up a bit here and there
• rhythm - check?
• rhyme - scheme? does it have one? should it?
• stanza? signs of dehiscence? what happens if I break the normal big fat strand of verse into boxes of say 3 lines, 6 lines. 4 lines...oh feedback into rhyme scheme and recheck...
• vocabulary - what it is saying about the poem?
• and so on...

So that is what I am up to right now,

You can find the sorting algorithms here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPRA0W1kECg&feature=youtu.be

Crowdfund poetry

p&g contributor French poet and geek Jan Rousselot's Dawn of the Algorithm is both a poem p&g featured in Issue 7 and now:

a picture book of 32 poems inspired by science [fiction], video games, books & movies, life in Paris and, above all else, the looming robopocalypse.

Rather pleasingly you can help fund it.

Take a look at Jan's original poem here http://www.poetandgeek.com/issue7/07rousselot.html and make it happen here https://www.inkshares.com/projects/dawn-of-the-algorithm

Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorithm

Poet and geek Loss Pequeño Glazier’s writing explores the multilingual folds of natural languages and computer code. Sounds good to us. Set in the U.S., Mexico, Costa Rica, and Cuba, Anatman, Pumpkin Seed, Algorithm explores the Americas through the play of its aggregate languages.

The book above is available from Salt:

http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/1844710017.htm

More on Loss Pequeño Glazier here:

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/glazier

btw the word algorithm comes from a Latin for of the name (Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad ibn Mūsā) al-Khwārizmī a Persian astronomer, geographer and mathematician who wrote amongst other things On Calculation with Hindu Numerals (825 AD).