Re:Git manpage generator
by Silkebacon on Thursday April 10, 2014 @10:00AM
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The generator doesn't use markov chains, it's grammar-based similar to the Dada Engine which powers the postmodernism generator. There's a link to a markov chain based generator in the footer, check it out, it's pretty funny and a lot more random.
I stand corrected on that point, then. But still, I guess it's no surprise that something tailored to look/sound like something else looks/sounds like that something else ;-)
> Heck, there have been automatically-generated conference papers that have been accepted and went through peer review
Those papers were used to prove that those conferences weren t actually peer reviewed.
git manpages are apparently full of very git-specific terminology and quite dense. I would guess the same model applied to the J documentation would be equally unreadable for the uninitiated. If the source material was more readable and easier to grasp the automatically-generated versions would reflect that (to some degree, until it's obvious that's nonsense).