Poem #4: Firefighting
Firefighting is a poem written in the Python programming language that generates an ASCII art fire animation. This small poem plays with the size of the human response to large scale destruction. Keywords emerge from the darkness like embers in a blaze.
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Illustration by Catherine Pearson
Daniel Holden
Machine learning researcher
Christopher Kerr
Technical writer
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