Thursday, July 05, 2007
To halve and halve not
Assume an editorial fitness function that actually works. How would the next generation of poems be bred? What is the string of genetic markers and how might they be split so that they could match up with halved markers from another poem?
The easy (and wrong) answer would be to divide up each poem's lines and make a new poem out of some from each parent. But that's just another way of randomizing, what the generation function does and what we now claim is insufficient for consistent quality.
Say we have two poems, both of which have passed the first test of the fitness function, who are having drinks (or maybe just lunch) and are pretty close to deciding to go ahead and do it. The issue of such a dalliance would be stronger, weaker, or about as strong as these soon-to-be lovers. And that relative strength would inherit from the parents' basic characteristics: tone, diction, allusion, etc, etc, etc.
But how to reduce these things to codable properties?
# posted by Jim @ 3:09 PM 
