Hacker News with Generative AI: Shakespeare

Doing the Prospero-Challenge in RPython (pypy.org)
Recently I had a lot of fun playing with the Prospero Challenge by Matt Keeter. The challenge is to render a 1024x1024 image of a quote from The Tempest by Shakespeare. The input is a mathematical formula with 7866 operations, which is evaluated once per pixel.
Programming, Challenges, Python, Image Processing, Shakespeare
29 points by tekknolagi 17 days ago | 2 comments
Window cleaner in quest to confirm priceless Shakespeare portrait (bbc.com)
Window cleaner Steven Wadlow has spent more than a decade trying to prove he is in possession of a priceless, authentic Shakespeare portrait.
Art, History, Mystery, Shakespeare
16 points by rmason 31 days ago | 17 comments
Not Time's Fool: A Rare Version of a Shakespeare Sonnet Is Discovered (nytimes.com)
An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, its meaning might have been very different.
Literature, History, Shakespeare, Poetry
7 points by treetalker 52 days ago | 7 comments
Monkeys Will Never Type Shakespeare (bbc.co.uk)
Two Australian mathematicians have called into question an old adage, that if given an infinite amount of time, a monkey pressing keys on a typewriter would eventually write the complete works of William Shakespeare.
Mathematics, Probability, Literature, Shakespeare
8 points by zabzonk 176 days ago | 2 comments
Sculpture commemorates 16th century drowning that inspired Shakespeare (theguardian.com)
Almost 500 years ago, a wealthy and well-connected judge named Sir James Hales walked into the River Stour near Canterbury in order to take his own life.
History, Shakespeare, England, Art
6 points by n1b0m 223 days ago | 0 comments
How many children had Lady Macbeth? (lifeandletters.substack.com)
Shakespeare, Literature, History, Macbeth
46 points by silt 277 days ago | 42 comments
Making Elizabethan plays understandable and fun to read (elizabethandrama.org)
Literature, Shakespeare, History, Education
104 points by lordleft 284 days ago | 162 comments
Much Ado About First Folios — the world's largest Shakespeare collection reopens (npr.org)
Shakespeare, Literature, Museums, Collections, History
39 points by bookofjoe 307 days ago | 11 comments
How the soon-to-reopen Folger Shakespeare Library came to be (smithsonianmag.com)
Libraries, History, Shakespeare, Reopenings, Museums
15 points by prismatic 340 days ago | 2 comments