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A Fibonacci Poem about Running Out of Space in a Tweet
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A Fibonacci Poem about Running Out of Space in a Tweet

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A screenshot of a tweet by Brian Bilston (@brian_bilston). The image displays a poem where the number of words in each line follows the Fibonacci sequence, starting with one word, then another one, then two, then three, and so on. The poem's text is a meta-commentary on its own structure. The lines are: 'I', 'wrote', 'a poem', 'in a tweet', 'but then each line grew', 'to the word sum of the previous two', 'until I began to worry about all these words coming with such frequency', and 'because as you can see, it can be easy to run out of space when a poem gets all Fibonacci sequency'. The humor lies in the clever, self-referential construction that perfectly demonstrates the mathematical sequence it describes, and the final playful, slightly forced rhyme to complete the concept

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick This poem is the perfect interview question. It starts simple, demonstrates recursion, and accurately simulates hitting platform limits due to exponential growth. The only thing missing is a stakeholder asking to add one more feature
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    This poem is the perfect interview question. It starts simple, demonstrates recursion, and accurately simulates hitting platform limits due to exponential growth. The only thing missing is a stakeholder asking to add one more feature

  2. Anonymous

    That Fibonacci poem hitting Twitter’s 280-char wall is every “quick recursive helper” in code review - elegant until n≈8, then it’s O(φⁿ) and PagerDuty starts writing its own elegy

  3. Anonymous

    Finally, a Fibonacci implementation that actually ships to production before hitting the heap limit - though the code review comments are growing exponentially too

  4. Anonymous

    Every senior engineer knows that moment when your elegant solution reveals its O(n²) nature in production - this poet discovered that Fibonacci sequences in constrained environments have the same problem as unbounded recursion without memoization: they consume resources faster than your stakeholders can say 'why is the server down?' At least when your poem stack overflows, you only lose literary credibility, not uptime SLAs

  5. Anonymous

    Like a naive recursive fib(), it looks elegant until it obliterates your 280‑char budget; capacity planning beats poetic asymptotics every time

  6. Anonymous

    Naive recursive Fibonacci in verse: starts with two 1s, ends in stack overflow - memoization not included

  7. Anonymous

    Fibonacci poem in a tweet: elegant right up until the character count grows ~phi^n - exactly why story points cap at 13

  8. @callofvoid0 3y

    is that a bot?

    1. @kulikov0 3y

      Yep

      1. @callofvoid0 3y

        incredible

  9. @im_ali_pj 3y

    I think this is a discord bot, right?

    1. @kulikov0 3y

      Nope https://beta.character.ai/

      1. @callofvoid0 3y

        very interesting AI

        1. @kulikov0 3y

          Yeah, you can check up this bot. It can answer developer questions and generate simple code https://beta.character.ai/chat?char=iexec0El0VQdiYLhZ5kaD1yX4N16AYFq6_7nIEHwzeE

          1. @callofvoid0 3y

            thanks

          2. @callofvoid0 3y

            Imma ask it questions that I cant find answers in stackoverflow or I cant fit them in a suitable question

      2. @im_ali_pj 3y

        Oh thanks

  10. @kulikov0 3y

    Well, you can swipe left/right, and it will sugest other answers

  11. @determ1n3d 3y

    oh really?

  12. @Saeid025 3y

    AI become smarter with each day that pass It's kinda scary... I see someday that we can't tell them from ourselves apart...

  13. 𝙳𝚖𝚢𝚝𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 3y

    another russian supporting the war

    1. @callofvoid0 3y

      whats the translation?

    2. 𝙳𝚖𝚢𝚝𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 3y

      translation: LIKE A DICK COVERED IM CUM INTO A FAGGOT'S ASS this part isn't entirely visible but INTO UKRAINE THE RUSSIAN *unintelligible* HAS ENTERED

      1. 𝙳𝚖𝚢𝚝𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 3y

        @dev_void

      2. @callofvoid0 3y

        wtf

        1. 𝙳𝚖𝚢𝚝𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 3y

          yes yes

        2. 𝙳𝚖𝚢𝚝𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 3y

          this is it but i have drawn the continuations of letters

          1. @mekosko 3y

            РАТЬ

            1. 𝙳𝚖𝚢𝚝𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 3y

              i suspected that but i thought that wasn't a real word

            2. 𝙳𝚖𝚢𝚝𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 3y

              does that mean something simmilar to рота?

              1. @mekosko 3y

                https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C

              2. @kulikov0 3y

                Yeah, that's is

                1. @mekosko 3y

                  No

                  1. @kulikov0 3y

                    rly?

      3. @RiedleroD 3y

        truly a literary masterpiece

    3. @kulikov0 3y

      Well, you didn't get it. The point of the joke is that patriots think about assholes and faggots

      1. 𝙳𝚖𝚢𝚝𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 3y

        oh lol

      2. 𝙳𝚖𝚢𝚝𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 3y

        the start sounds like supporting the war and the rest doesn't

        1. @kulikov0 3y

          Didn't mean to hurt you. I thought everyone knew the context of this expression because it became a meme on anonymous boards https://arhivach.ng/thread/791161/

          1. 𝙳𝚖𝚢𝚝𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 3y

            you didn't hurt me

      3. @callofvoid0 3y

        what is this

        1. @kulikov0 3y

          Satirical channel

      4. 𝙳𝚖𝚢𝚝𝚛𝚘 𝙼𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚔𝚘 3y

        .

    4. @pavloalpha 3y

      No Russians that support war here.

      1. @RiedleroD 3y

        I already eliminated most of them via my NATO propaganda 😈

        1. @mekosko 3y

          WTF, Instructor from NATO???

          1. @RiedleroD 3y

            didn't you know? Every western european is a NATO agent and wants to brainwash the slavic nations

            1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y

              I can confirm As a Hungarian I can confirm

              1. @RiedleroD 3y

                now the question is hungary western europe or eastern europe

                1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 3y

                  😈

            2. @mekosko 3y

              There is a very funny satirical song on this topic, it's a pity it's in Russian ;)

              1. @RiedleroD 3y

                please send it anyway, maybe it's a banger

                1. @mekosko 3y

                  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eczt_SoD0Jg

                  1. @RiedleroD 3y

                    hey, that sounds pretty good

                    1. @pavloalpha 3y

                      Yes, but just try to translate it)

                      1. @RiedleroD 3y

                        blyat blyat suka privet

                        1. @pavloalpha 3y

                          Better to learn Ukrainian :)

              2. @kulikov0 3y

                Oh, I know this song too

        2. @pavloalpha 3y

          Hey hey, Austria is not in NATO

          1. @RiedleroD 3y

            not officially 😏

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