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by wallflower • 17 years ago

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messel• 17 years ago

Language processing may give rise to something wonderful. Interesting work.

pmichaud• 17 years ago

Looking forward to seeing the source!

markbnine• 17 years ago

Looks like an Eddington Algorithm (likely misnamed, but taken from Eddington's quote about monkeys typing Shakespeare). It's done by hashing the entire text and then randomly stepping down a line. The size of your step (one word, two words, etc.) effects readability. I recall once seeing somebody's bot use this algorithm to occasionally spew out the bible on a religious chat channel. Drove the locals nuts.

aichcon• 17 years ago

I like the idea. I think it would be better illustrated with shorter lines, though.

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