For a while I ran a Markov chain blog poster that drew on my own notes and posts on a site I ran for a while. A phrase in one of those posts ("Only a matter of

For a while I ran a Markov chain blog poster that drew on my own notes and posts on a site I ran for a while. A phrase in one of those posts ("Only a matter of seeing simple data structures and designing lightweight tools that can cross the galaxy") actually led to a chain of association that has spawned a five-year research thread. This technique can actually work.