Checking my Haskell implementation of "What I tell you three times is true" using ChatGPT (https://chat.openai.com/chat)

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #LewisCarroll #BellmansRule #WhatITellYouThreeTimesIsTrue #Haskell #Truth #ChatGPT

#Reading #TheHuntingOfTheSnark #GuideToPrinciplesOfLNPGovernment
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favourite line: the Captain they trusted so well 
Had only one notion for crossing the ocean, 
     And that was to tingle his bell

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text in pic below (The Bellman’s Speech) is preceded by:

The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies--
Such a carriage, such ease and such grace!
Such solemnity, too! One could see he was wise,
The moment one looked in his face!

He had bought a large map representing the sea,
Without the least vestige of land:
And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be
A map they could all understand…
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and just for the fun of it, text in image below is followed (in part) by;

But the principal failing occurred in the sailing, 
     And the Bellman, perplexed and distressed, 
Said he had hoped, at least, when the wind blew due East, 
     That the ship would not travel due West!

I'm at the end of a rabbit hole in search of #LewisCarroll's poem, #TheHuntingOfTheSnark.

Here is a splendid, restored musical version, recorded at the Albert Hall in 1987. It features #BillyConnolly as the Bellman and #JohnHurt as narrator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlXPCAm5nHw

And here's the text:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43909/the-hunting-of-the-snark

May your Snarks never be Boojums.

@georgetakei -- «In Vonda McIntyre's novelization of #StarTrek2: #TheWrathOfKhan, she reveals that the use of protomatter in the Genesis Device was made possible due to the discovery of sub-elementary particles, which were named by whimsical scientists as "#snarks" and "#boojums".» (Source: https://manga.fandom.com/wiki/The_Hunting_of_the_Snark).

In #StarWars, The shape of #Yoda might be a #PictorialAllusion to #HenryHoliday's depiction of the Baker's Uncle in #LewisCarroll's "#TheHuntingOfTheSnark".

@georgetakei -- «In Vonda McIntyre's novelization of #StarTrek2: #TheWrathOfKhan, she reveals that the use of protomatter in the Genesis Device was made possible due to the discovery of sub-elementary particles, which were named by whimsical scientists as "#snarks" and "#boojums".» (Source: https://manga.fandom.com/wiki/The_Hunting_of_the_Snark).

In #StarWars, The shape of #Yoda might be an #PictorialAllusion to #HenryHoliday's depiction of the Baker's Uncle in #LewisCarroll's "#TheHuntingOfTheSnark".

On the left side is the image where my avatar came from. The shape of that man is one of several #PictorialReferences (in an illustration to #LewisCarroll's "#TheHuntingOftheSnark") by #HenryHoliday to #MatthiasGrünewald's paintings (https://snrk.de/how-gustave-dore-might-have-played-with-pareidolia/#wildmen) in the #MuseéUnterlinden in #Colmar, France.

#IsenheimAltarPiece
#TemptationOfStAnthony #BookIllustration #Allusions #PictorialReferences #PictorialAllusions

#introduction: A toot by @georgetakei made me aware of the https://univereodon.com instance.

My focus is on Snark hunting (https://snrk.de/snark-mastodon/) and a view at the universe through sound science, but as "the kind of person who enjoys edutainment, reads books, watches science shows and loves to connect with people who view the universe through wonder" I probably will feel quite comfortable here.

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #HenryHoliday #LewisCarroll #PictorialAllusions #PictorialReferences

In April 2026, Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday's #TheHuntingOfTheSnark will celebrate its #150thAnniversary. How about collecting implementations of the Bellman's rule "What I tell you three times is true." in many different programming languages?

My first #Haskell exercise: Implementation of the Bellman''s rule "What I tell you three times is true" (from Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark", 1876). The code is here: https://snrk.de/truth-isnt-truth/

This is a great tool for fact checking. This is a great tool for fact checking. This is a great tool for fact checking.

#TheHuntingOfTheSnark #LewisCarroll #WhatITellYouThreeTimesIsTrue #BellmansRule #FactChecking