Garkov
Posted by Dan on Jun 29th, 2008
2008
Jun 29
Here’s another something derived from the Garfield comic strip. Garkov is a Garfield strip with the dialogue generated more or less randomly using a Markov chain. The idea is that large quantities of real dialogue are loaded into a database and used to calculate the probabilities of one word following another. Then the new dialogue is generated one word at a time using these probabilities. The result is text that seems coherent on a small scale (”pork chops” makes sense) but not on a large scale.
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