The Shakespeare sonnet wasn't written by a computer. IIRC Nate just had a text editor with a type-ahead suggest box that was weighted by an n-gram lookup into y

The Shakespeare sonnet wasn't written by a computer. IIRC Nate just had a text editor with a type-ahead suggest box that was weighted by an n-gram lookup into your corpus of choice. It was up to the human to choose which word to use.