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Interesting. Why do you think that is? (More readable, that is)

• aninhumer 9y ago
  If I were going to guess (not the parent), it's because human parsing is quite localised, and Markov models tend to optimise well for localised coherence. Their failure mode is long sentences which don't go anywhere (or mean anything), but that's less grating than a blatant parse failure, especially if you're skim reading.
  • visakanv 9y ago
    That actually makes a lot of sense, great point.
• marktangotango 9y ago
  Claude Shannon[1], information theory guy, worked on machine generated music quite a lot. Some of the ideas transfer. Information theory informs a lot in this area[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Shannon [2] http://www.music-cog.ohio-state.edu/Music829D/Notes/Infotheory.html http://www.music-cog.ohio-state.edu/Music829D/Notes/Infotheo...
  • visakanv 9y ago
    Fascinating!