On: Political Speech Generator

[nicklo]

From a technical standpoint, the paper is somewhat lacking. It's a standard Markov-chain generator with an additional prior defined on the cohesiveness of the generated text.

I'm guessing all the press is due to it being US election season, but this is really no different from King James Programming (http://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com), which was entertaining, but nothing revolutionary.

[runn1ng → nicklo]

Yep, Markov chain generators are always fun.

I remember there being Markov chain generator for Hacker News, but it was a few months (maybe years) back.

[icebraining → runn1ng]

http://news.ycombniator.com

[TheOtherHobbes → icebraining]

That's more interesting than great. But:

SpaceX DSCOVR Launch – The Decision to Embrace Dinkiness

is gold.

[CPLX → icebraining]

"Interesting New Startup Developed Using The Restroom" was my favorite.

[cmdrfred → CPLX]

"$690 for an hour minimum wage for state management in haskell" I knew I should of learned Haskell!

[amyjess → CPLX]

"Color blind accessibility on Bootstrap and JQuery to make Vim more accessible"

This made me physically cringe.

[pekk → amyjess]

The real thing makes me physically cringe, so I would count that as a success.