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Comment by dfsegoat | Hacker News Reader

In a similar vein, this is one of the most amusing use of Markov chains IMO: It is trained on the King James Bible and several Computer science textbooks:

http://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/

So you get some gold like:

"And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more like a controlled use of shared memory."

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I can't stop laughing at:

> they smote the city with the edge of the sword. 22:20 And one of his main motivations was the high cost of proprietary software houses.

More gold:

"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and third arguments"

More gems:

"8:29 And king Joram went back to the compiler."

"Using Lisp we restrict or limit not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us."

And the not so politically correct: "Tools like pic2graph(1) can bundle together all the Jews that were in the uttermost part of heaven."

My favorite is this twitter account of titles for imaginary articles constructed from titles submitted to Hacker News.

https://twitter.com/HNTitles

lol, that's awesome. now we just need to train it to write the articles.

I wonder if it knocks out exact matches to previous HN titles or if it could generate one eventually

I built a few generative Twitter bots with character level language models[1] (@steam_gaems for instance) and one problem is that they spit out phrases from the source text relatively frequently. So I included a function to re-generate the output if it matched any input phrases. Brute-force but effective.

[1] http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/

"‘mode lines’ — program status summaries carried on a highlighted screen line, often near the bottom or at the mouth of the LORD"

This is hilarious

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