The 2.30 "beta" is actually quite stable. The author doesn't want to release a "stable" version until it's totally bulletproof. See this post on the 7-zip forum.
I rather doubt any good poetry will actually come out of this. It seems to me that two good poems with parts interchanged at random "snip points" will be statistically very likely to become bad poems. A more advanced system is probably necessary before anything worthwhile will be produced.
The idea of having people vote on which poems are best is a good one, though. Maybe the same principle could be applied to other computer-generated word stuff.
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The 2.30 "beta" is actually quite stable. The author doesn't want to release a "stable" version until it's totally bulletproof. See this post on the 7-zip forum.
I rather doubt any good poetry will actually come out of this. It seems to me that two good poems with parts interchanged at random "snip points" will be statistically very likely to become bad poems. A more advanced system is probably necessary before anything worthwhile will be produced.
The idea of having people vote on which poems are best is a good one, though. Maybe the same principle could be applied to other computer-generated word stuff.