@shriramk What came to mind when I read the highlighted text. Took a few moments for the context cues to kick in.

@keithpjolley Ah, sorry, not so interested in smoked versions of those. (-:

@ricci @keithpjolley
Sooner or later there's going to be a terroir snob who claims they can distinguish English willow from other cricket bats in their gin.

@shriramk @keithpjolley Shriram, do you *know* people? Definitely someone is already claiming that even before this product exists.

@dan @ricci @keithpjolley
This is like the rule for papers: if you come up with a clever enough system name, you have no choice but to implement it and write a paper about it. You can't squander those 10 seconds of good thinking — have to spend 10 months to make it real.

@shriramk @dan @ricci @keithpjolley Ooh, potential application of ChatGPT. "Find me an an acronym for my research project." Need to give this a try.

@dan @dwallach @shriramk It's surprisingly bad at this. This seems to be like AI art and getting the right number of fingers on a hand.

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@dan @ricci @shriramk @dwallach it can do basic rhyming but has no understanding of metrical structure or almost any other poetic device (alliteration is another one it barfs on, even if you try to hand hold it)

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