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Just an aside: would have been awesome if the writer created an article generating program. He could feed the program a few key words (perhaps just the name o

Just an aside: would have been awesome if the writer created an article generating program. He could feed the program a few key words (perhaps just the name of the TV show). The program could scrape or be manually fed some information from Google trends. Then add some scraping of data from existing articles. Use a markov chain to keep the content fresh and you're good to go! I'm just thinking of the sentence generation via markov chain from Programming Pearls and the hilarious auto-generated computer science papers that were submitted and accepted by some journal.

noonespecial 15y ago
It would be double-awesome if he submitted under the pseudonym "Chane Markov".
- regularfry 15y ago
  I think "Markoff Chainey" might be more suitable :-)
  - minikomi 15y ago
    I think I need to write a metal riff generator called The Mark Of Chain
  - emmelaich 15y ago
    Or perhaps Mark V Shaney? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V_Shaney http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V_Shaney
mitcheme 15y ago
It would be hilarious but I'm not so sure it would work that well. I think one of the big reasons the scigen papers passed for real was because a lot of people will assume that if they can't understand a paper, it's just gone over their heads. There's enough real jargon in them to reinforce that assumption. Entertainment news is a lot more accessible so it would be pretty obvious.
- spaghetti 15y ago
  You're right that entertainment news is much more accessible. However there's also much more pre-existing "content" related to $mainStreamTopic at our disposal for training our future pulitzer-prize-winning markov-chain-based authors :-p