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Interesting. It can also be used as a Markov chain text generator. Type one word, then just accept every suggestion.

"In the case of these two types of information that is not appropriate for all users of the catalogue should also be noted that there is anything you would not believe how much I loved them."

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You can even get it to repeat itself after a while:

    I have been able to find anything in these search results from RT on your
    Google searches by subscribing to the feed via email to state their case
    and their ownership of their owners and are strictly for viewing and printing
    of these books are nothing but another form of therapy for these patients
    is not known whether these are the only ones who can not afford to pay for
    their own users and groups to their Friends / Favorites list yet, so I'ma
    keep popping up in their own right and do not want to be related to their
    particular field or industry in which they are attached to their respective
    owners and are strictly for viewing and printing of these books are nothing
    but another form of therapy for these patients is not known whether these are
    the only ones who can not afford to pay for their own users and groups to
    their Friends / Favorites list yet, so I'ma keep popping up in their own
    right and do not want to be related to their particular field or industry in
    which they are attached to their respective owners...

Congratulations, you just found a fixed point attractor.

I think a fixed point attractor would be a word or phrase where it goes naturally but then doesn't have any more suggestions: a dead end.

This is more of a periodic-solution attractor.

"Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life and your business could subject you to lawsuits and leave your operating systems without patches"

Typing in "Larry and Sergey" produces

Larry and Sergey Dump Shares of the Company and their respective mascots, events and info in the top right corner of the world's largest international multimedia news agency

but after a few more phrases the story gets into a loop.

"It was a dark and stormy night in the city of New York City Area Directory of All Stores International Sites & Affiliates Forum & Resources for Teachers and Students at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at..."

The cadence reminds me of a certain character from BSG. You tell me:

Kara Thrace and here is their website and buy this product again and again and I'ma let you finish but Beyonce had one of these days I'll bet your life on the road today and they are nothing but another form of therapy for these patients is not known whether these are the only ones who can not afford to pay for their own users and groups to their Friends / Favorites list yet.

That was... trippy.

I did this until it suggested "I'ma let you finish but Beyonce had one of the..."

I guess this particular phrase has been on the internet so much that it skews the machine learning algorithm.

I have another question for yourself at their website and buy this product again and again and I'ma let you finish but Beyonce had one of these days I'll bet your life on the road today and

"Hacker News Mashups: Deliver Your Project Faster with Virtualized Data Services Across Internal & External Sources of Funding for these projects"

Barack Obama is a master at grabbing and keeping his audience's attention to the fact that the two are not the only one who can not afford to pay for the cost of the project is to develop a new generation of protein database search pro tab by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus lyrics are property and copyright of the article is that I have no idea what to do.

Indeed. The first sentence it generated for me was not a Markovian nonsense phrase, but rather a phrase that appears on a very large number of web pages: "The following content has been identified by the YouTube community as being potentially offensive or inappropriate." This gives some insight into their seed data.

Their seed data is probably the n-gram dataset that they released (or maybe a more recent one):

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/08/all-our-n-gram-ar...

Microsoft also has an n-gram dataset that you can access through a web service:

http://web-ngram.research.microsoft.com/info/

"to their libraries and their users are not likely to become an editor... and really good food and good service is our number one priority is to provide and... they are nothing but another form of therapy for these patients is not known whether these are the only ones."

To prevent loops you can vary the selection, not just picking the top item, but perhaps doing something like 1-2-3-2-1-2-3

This actually produces less intelligible sentences, but more randomness

"dogs and azithromycin zithromax one dose chlamydia and gonorrhea are the most common form of dementia"

Just few spacebar and enter wrote this sentence: "What the hel* is this guy on their team and their fans are the best in the world of their owners and are strictly for viewing and printing of these books."

hello my name is brenda and I am anxiously awaiting their arrival in the United States and Canada

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