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Unintentional Haiku in my YouTube Video Descriptions

Unintentional Haiku in my YouTube Video Descriptions

Since I wrote a little app to download much of my YouTube metadata, it was obvious that I needed to feed it through another little app I wrote: Haiku Detector. So I did. In all of my public YouTube descriptions put together, with URLs removed, there are 26 172 sentences, and 436 detected haiku.

As is usually the case, a few of these ‘haiku’ were not really haiku because the Mac speech synthesis…

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Unintentional Haiku in the Mueller Report

Unintentional Haiku in the Mueller Report

Everyone’s talking about this Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election, so I dusted off Haiku Detector and looked for interesting haiku in it. A friend pointed me to a text version, though it’s not ideal for finding haiku; it has many superfluous hard line breaks, missing or superfluous spaces, and so on, which make it harder for Haiku Detector to…

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Unintentional Haiku in New Scientist's Medical Frontiers: The Movie

Unintentional Haiku New Scientist's Medical Frontiers: The Movie

I’ve made a new version of Haiku Detector. The main changes are: Performance improvements Tweaks to which haiku are identified when punctuation is pronounced differently depending on line breaks and other factors (this includes a workaround for the ‘all numbers pronounced as zero’ bug I found in the speech synthesiser.) In my test data the list of haiku identified is better now. Bug fixes. To…

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Haiku Detector Update

On MondayI posted a quick-and-dirty Haiku Detector Mac application I’d written which finds haiku (in terms of syllable counts and line breaks, not aesthetics) in any given text. Since then I’ve made it less dirty and maybe more quick. It now shows progress when it’s busy looking for haiku in a long text, and gives you a count of the sentences it looked at and the haiku it found. You can also copy…

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Unintentional Haiku Spoken in a Courtroom 241 Years Ago

Unintentional Haiku Spoken in a Courtroom 241 Years Ago

When I discovered that the court proceedings of the Old Bailey were available online, naturally I had to see whether they contained any haiku. The archive is too huge to put into Haiku Detector all at once, so I just checked the ‘on this day in…’ link whenever I had time. The most haiku-rich I’ve seen so far was from a wounding case on 8 September 1773, which, now that I think about it, should…

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