Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror wrote a good introductory post to Markov chains, with a link to Garkov, a Garfield comic generator that uses them.
I think that the humor in Garkov is probably the same as could be achieved by just putting random captions from other strips together, however. For something truly generated-awesome, see Atwood’s example Paul Graham essay:
You can feel the need to take advantage of increased cheapness, however. You're not all playing a zero-sum game. There's not some fixed number of startups; we fund startups we fund to work on matters of passing importance. But I'm uncomfortably aware that this is part of any illusions about the problem of overeating by stopping eating. I couldn't simply avoid the Internet had become, because the company is the new trend of worrying obsessively about what it meant for someone, usually an outsider, who deliberately stirred up fights in a startup than just start it. You know how the A List is selected. And even that is more work.
I tried running the last 100 Blogger known issues through the online Markov generator. I don’t think there’s quite enough diversity, though, as I recognize a lot of full sentences, but here are some random Blogger problems:
- Some users are experiencing problems with the new version of Blogger in draft users are experiencing problems with FTP publishing that may affect image upload do not have "www" at the very bottom in the Blogger edit post form to upload one photo at a time or shrink photos larger.
- Some users have been affected by this bug. If a blog or post, regardless of how many total comments the blog reviewed and the iGoogle gadget. Update, 1/28: This has been.
- Some users report that they can be moderated. Comment feeds should now show the earliest comments. A temporary workaround is to click on the fix, one quick recommendation would be to clear your browser's cache and cookies and then go to.
- Some users may be able to set your blog's language. Readers with Internet Explorer security settings set to a FeedBurner feed. The workaround is to exit Picasa.
Once you’ve had enough fun with Markov chains, move on to the Metropolis algorithm to generate samples based on a distribution that you can’t sample directly.
