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Haha, some of them are hilarious. Some more obviously generated than others, but still... good job. How are they generated? I managed to get some gems like t
by joneil 14y ago
Haha, some of them are hilarious. Some more obviously generated than others, but still... good job.
How are they generated?
I managed to get some gems like this:
> The earliest Nordic settlers in the Old Northwest were shocked when they discovered their lands had been inhabited by a sentient race, which has been confirmed by scientists to have used Google products over 300 years before today.
- gee_totes 14y agoIt looks like the theories were pre-generated, then on refresh, the front page just shows a random theory..... or at least that's what the author wants you to think... until it's too late. Numerous pop-songs from the 90s make reference to this. In all seriousness, I'd love to see the source code.
- alanctgardner2 14y agoI'm guessing Markov Chains[1]. Effectively, each phrase is determined randomly from a pool, the options are dictated by the preceding sentence. They're a surprisingly effective way to produce a few sentences that seem logically connected, despite being more or less random. After a few hops, of course it can go off the rails. And they have a simple grammar that allows them to pull famous names, places and drop them into predefined slots. Someone else already pointed out, it's basically Mad Libs. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain