it me but no flirt

Argos??

Odysseus? I mean..

I have heard of him?

I don't know about Europe stuff.. can I bring hand-to-hand weapons to the defence?

the obvious "flaw" is that it encourages people to cheat, but that's 100% the point. Because we're also checking syntax they can't just spam words with a combinator. Any entry that would pass would be worth (to me) the $$ 🤔

Trouble is that, with rounding, 0 people worldwide can create an entry.

idea: contestants scan their verse with MQDQ auto-scansion tools and upload the XML. Pipeline runs automatically on some github.io website. Tools output a likelihood ratio, which is the 'score', predefined threshold to win.

Poem would need to contain only valid Latin lemmas, and scan, only rules.

maybe? in 5 days, if all goes well :)

"but this devalues the degree because the award holders won't actually have the expected skills?!?"

I think we lost this fight 30 years ago but have just been too ashamed to admit our complicity.

(this habit of mine has always annoyed people, but brains do what they want....)

another poorly thought out position: "AI is a plagiarism machine for essays" ok well you're marking it, and plagiarism has always been severe Academic Misconduct that we are supposed to look for, so what's your point?

this is the way 🤤

I don't believe in trochaic octameter.

honestly, it's more like a colon 🤷

'there are two doors of sleep, of which it is said one is of horn [used in lanterns, main aspect is 'translucent'?] by which an easy exit is given to true shades. The other [patterned hexameter] is perfectly crafted from gleaming ivory, by which the Manes send out false dreams to the lands above'

on a student salary??