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I learned Flask, Python, Uwsgi, and Nginx configuration in order to make this happen.

Oh and if you're feeling generous, you can buy them for $2 a pop:

https://prlibs.com/nocc

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I learned Flask, Python, Uwsgi, and Nginx configuration in order to make this happen.

EDIT: Oh and NLTK, of course.

EDIT2: If you missed it, you can see all the posts here: http://prlibs.posterous.com/

Oh and if you're feeling generous, you can buy them for $2 a pop:

https://prlibs.com/nocc

Oops, now my real name is out on the internet. Good thing it didn't ask for my SSN, I probably would have typed it in as well without reading anything.

We whipped this together for a Startup Weekend fun. The articles are hilariously awful right now. Any tips for making sentences more coherent is welcome.

I say, make them even more incoherent. How? Take Reddit user syntaxgs: This strange Internet persona (dedicated troll? bot? multiple people?) has been writing bizarre, unreadable comments for years now [1]. I recommend you look at his Reddit comments, modify your text generator to replace phrases with syntaxgs's "syntax", and post the results.

References:

[1] Reddit account: http://www.reddit.com/user/syntaxgs

[2] syntaxgs comment obfuscator (not mine): http://syntaxgs.sharpoblunto.com/

You can also take inspiration from this twitter bot https://twitter.com/Horse_ebooks It is very zen sometimes.

No, please leave them incoherent.

Any chance of getting them deleted? I'd rather not have mine floating on your posterous account forever.

Is there a way to dele them? I didn't know mine would be saved and viewed by my bosses who undoubtably have a google alert for their startup name.

"The startup seeks to let strings by breaking .2em bytes."

I was tempted to make a snarky comment about this, but it's actually not much worse than phrases like "We deliver beautiful products to web enterprises!" At least this is obviously gibberish.

There seems to be a lot of HTML leaking through. We'll see if there is any way to sanitize it further...

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