I think the concept you are describing is called accentual-syllabic verse. And it definitely exists in English too, it just became much less popular for some historical reason.
I am much more familiar with Russian poetry compared to the English (and I still like it more), but I wouldn’t call violating metrical foot format a mistake in general there. It’s an instrument like any other, which can be used well. Moreover, due to generally having longer words compared to English, you can often see unstressed syllables where a stressed one would be expected by the strict interpretation of the metrical foot, otherwise you couldn’t ever use words with four or more syllables in poetry. I am not an expert but I’ve heard arguments that you shouldn’t use the concept of metrical feet for Russian poetry in general because of that.
You don’t have to look at futurism and other avant-garde movements to see experimentation with the strictness of verses. There was plenty of interesting variations in the Silver age of Russian poetry, and even earlier — you can find quite a few examples of different metrical foot variations and violations in Pushkin’s poems, and even Lomonosov, while preferring highly regular structure, was not above varying it when appropriate.
I do agree with your overall point of AI mostly failing to produce interesting poetry, though admittedly I haven’t experimented much with that. But Russian poetry is much less regular than you describe it.
I personally would call them a human, but this seems like a false equivalence unless you believe that personhood is something exclusive to humans. “Someone / a hominid” is perfectly valid and could at the same time be “someone / a person”.
It may be. But it is first and foremost a touching personal story about meeting an author’s hero and becoming friends with them.
And in today’s ad-ridden Internet this is one type of promotion I hope to see more often. Not algorithmic garbage thrown in your face by a big corporation after sucking up every last bit of your personal data, but a story written by the people for the people. Is it wrong to mention a book about the person described at the end of the story?
I am not involved in this, or any other promotion. Moreover, I don’t see how my tendency to lurk and not comment is relevant here, but if you really want to know, the description of the woman in the article reminded me of someone I personally knew, which may be the reason it touched me enough to reply today.
I just feel that there’s no reason to be combative in regard to the featured article even if you abhor any and all types of promotion, given that there’s so many much worse offenders around.
This kind of pot-stirring is against HN rules; it is quite unpleasant to be on the receiving end of such accusations in public. Email your suspicions to the mods, and let them nuke the accounts that are abusive; but let's not sour the flavor of HN for everyone else reading this. The "is that guy secretly a shill" game gets stale *fast*.
Serious Eats has articles before the recipe that are usually full of technical information from the development of the recipe.
Sometimes there's a bit of the "touching personal story" but I'm a lot more used to seeing failures and tests in the before-recipe section there. As a random example, check out this page on poached chicken:
Most of the cookbooks I’ve read were relatively straightforward, but those were mostly older books not written in English. That may be just me not reading a lot of recipes in general.
On topic — I would say that this article not being a recipe is important in that case. The story is not something detracting from the main point, it is the point.
Also when I was saying that I’d like to see more of this type of promotional content, I meant that just mentioning you are writing the book on the topic at the end of the article (without even linking to it) is vastly superior to pop-up videos tracking you across websites. I did not mean that the Internet somehow needs even more advertising in it.
It's a very common psychological trap to fall into, so all recipe sites have turned into "fake touching personal story" content mills over the past decade or so, yes.
LLM generates stories aren't copyrightable either, and I doubt ad-financed clickbait farms would care about suing each other anyway, this is just SEO and audience manipulation.
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I am much more familiar with Russian poetry compared to the English (and I still like it more), but I wouldn’t call violating metrical foot format a mistake in general there. It’s an instrument like any other, which can be used well. Moreover, due to generally having longer words compared to English, you can often see unstressed syllables where a stressed one would be expected by the strict interpretation of the metrical foot, otherwise you couldn’t ever use words with four or more syllables in poetry. I am not an expert but I’ve heard arguments that you shouldn’t use the concept of metrical feet for Russian poetry in general because of that.
You don’t have to look at futurism and other avant-garde movements to see experimentation with the strictness of verses. There was plenty of interesting variations in the Silver age of Russian poetry, and even earlier — you can find quite a few examples of different metrical foot variations and violations in Pushkin’s poems, and even Lomonosov, while preferring highly regular structure, was not above varying it when appropriate.
I do agree with your overall point of AI mostly failing to produce interesting poetry, though admittedly I haven’t experimented much with that. But Russian poetry is much less regular than you describe it.