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Re:Using a Markov chain to generate readable nonsense with 2... by hermitcrab on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:20PM (#38833943)
I did a markov reworking of some of Trump's speeches and got:

"Hillary brought death and disaster to Iraq, Syria and Libya, she empowered Iran, and she unleashed ISIS. Now she wants to raise your taxes very substantially. Highest taxed nation in the world is a tenant of mine in Manhattan, so many great people. These are people that have been stolen, stolen by either very stupid politicians ask me the question, how are you going to get rid of all the emails?” “Yes, ma’am, they’re gonna stay in this country blind. My contract with the American voter begins with a plan to end government that will not protect its people is a government corruption at the State Department of Justice is trying as hard as they can to protect religious liberty"

Details at: https://successfulsoftware.net/2019/04/02/bloviate/

Re:Using a Markov chain to generate readable nonsense with 2... by vorticalbox on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:59PM (#38834343)
When ngrams is high (10) how do you pick "what" to start from?
Re:Using a Markov chain to generate readable nonsense with 2... by hermitcrab on Monday January 01, 2024 @02:23PM (#38834548)
IIRC it starts with the same few characters as the source text.