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Hey all--Brian here, I built this little ditty. To answer some questions: Yes, it is a template engine, and there are only two templates. The foreign policy o
by bmmayer1 14y ago
Hey all--Brian here, I built this little ditty. To answer some questions: Yes, it is a template engine, and there are only two templates. The foreign policy one was written by Michael Ward with some modifications, and the domestic policy one written by a friend of mine. Coded in PHP/MySQL. All articles have permalinks. That's basically it...probably could have done it a better way but it was literally two hours of fun work a couple months ago and until today, I had forgotten about it. Thanks for the kudos and support!
- josscrowcroft 14y agoCongrats! Had my sides aching for a good long while. Wonder who else you could do? I bet there's an opening for a Charlie Brooker Guardian column generator, and a "Danny Wallace humorous anecdotal garbage about modern man and parenting" generator
- bmmayer1 14y agoI'd personally like to do a Paul Krugman generator. But I don't have the CPU power to crank out that level of bullshit.
- martinced 14y ago"I'd personally like to do a Paul Krugman generator. But I don't have the CPU power to crank out that level of bullshit." You made my day, nearly spilled my coffee ; ) It's easy: never predict anything more than a few months ahead ahead and for any problem suggest to a) print more money (even minting $1 trillion coins if needed) and b) involve more state.
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoExcellent job and congratulations. If you can add Markov Chain text-generation I'll die a happy man knowing that we have conclusive proof Thomas Friedman can't pass a Turing Test.