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One Reddit user has already implemented a bot which does something similar: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimu

• minimaxir 10y ago
  SubredditSimulator was made by a Reddit Admin as a method of creating test data. It uses Markov chains for simplicity, which is not that exciting.
  • denzil_correa 10y ago
    I have always wondered if one could make a better Subreddit Simulator with Deep Learning.
    • Deimorz 10y ago
      Recurrent neural networks would probably do a good job, they're quite good at this sort of thing: http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
  • cotinoco 10y ago
    I wonder if it's this same code? https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/scripts/inject_test_data.py https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/scripts/inject_...
    • minimaxir 10y ago
      No, the author has made it open source as a separate project: https://github.com/Deimos/SubredditSimulator https://github.com/Deimos/SubredditSimulator
  • Deimorz 10y ago
    Not quite correct - we already had a method of generating test data (for dev installs of reddit) that uses markov chains, and that was basically the inspiration for SubredditSimulator. SS was just meant to be kind of a larger, ongoing version of that, running on reddit itself.
    • minimaxir 10y ago
      Ah, thanks for the clarification. I knew that but worded incorrectly :p