Markov Chains are really cool. One of the many applications [0] being that you can 'train' them on a text corpus, and then by repeatedly generating random numbe

Markov Chains are really cool. One of the many applications [0] being that you can 'train' them on a text corpus, and then by repeatedly generating random numbers, create sentences that are (mostly) gramatically sound but otherwise absolute nonsense [1], [2]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain#Applications http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain#Applications [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V_Shaney http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V_Shaney [2] http://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/ http://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/