Darwinism in Poetry
by jcf. Average Reading Time: less than a minute.
eyes closed illumines
love
shield to words
Hmm – I guess it could be a lot worse than that – and the Darwinian Poetry project has generated worse poetry.
I’m specifically interested in this kind of research, because my company Ivorix – evolving software builds software that relies on some of the same mechanisms to generate trading strategies for trading stocks.
Out of the work, we’ve done, I know that genetic algorithms have to power to come up with solutions to really hard problems. Poetry seems to be one of these….
wow jens, this post is reeeeally interesting to me for several reasons…
one, i used to do finance stuff, crunching numbers in support of guys who were trading mortgage securities. i have a degree in finance. so there is always something in the back of my mind that perks up when i hear about stuff like that.
two, i’m very interested in poetry in general. i love to write it and read it (the good stuff anyway).
three, i’m interested in AI, although i don’t know too much about it. neural networks and all that… way cool.
four, i’m quite interested at some point in tinkering with my own version of a poetry generating engine. i’m going to come back here when i have more time and click all those links. and you are going on the blogroll the next time i update… cool site man.
Hey Jon – glad I hit you 4 of your hot buttons with just one post ;-)
We have come to the finance world without the finance background – and I think that has helped us a bit. We didn’t have any notion of “this is the true way to do things” and we just cooked up our own stuff (that seems to work pretty well, too).
Neural Networks aren’t that bad – it’s just a bit of mathematics – but rather easy stuff. Genetic algortithms aren’t the big deal either. It’s getting the theoretical things transformed to the practical problem domain that’s taking a lot of time and tinkering to get it right.
sounds way cool. i’m not too terribly bad at math, but i don’t do a whole lot with it lately. all that to say, i’m sure its over my head, but its still interesting… who knows, maybe one day i’ll have some time to tinker around?
Ahh – aren’t you always trying to find that time? I’d love to tinker with about a dozen different things, unfortunately real-life ™ prevents a lot of that….