Poem #4: Firefighting
Dec 19, 2019
Machine learning researcher
Technical writer
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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