trying to write proposals and grants that have to do with my continuing research on zukofsky's _80 flowers_ and it's just... really hard. one of those things where in my head there's this clear crystalline silver strand connecting everything in this beautiful way but when I try to follow the strand with my hands on the keyboard, intending to make a map of the strand, I lose sight of it and nothing makes sense anymore

@aparrish that sounds really cool... what’re you studying about 80 flowers?

@goodleftyfundies I have this hunch that the "condensation" technique Zukofsky used to compose the poems can be modeled computationally using a convolutional neural network operating on word vectors. so I've been looking into sources and trying to get my plain-text transcript just right, tracking down which words are neologisms and which are just obscure (or compounds), etc. and a lot of futzing with tensorflow

@aparrish that sounds really cool! If you modeled those poems it could have a lot of really interesting implications... what would you do with that model?

@goodleftyfundies write new poems with it :) 80 goldfish, 80 pizza toppings, 80 canadian lakes...

@aparrish nice! That’s what I was hoping! I think that could be a really cool way to demystify poetry and help people engage with it/ get into it