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<node id="255648" title="Re: Re: What are the monks doing with Perl and Linguistics?" created="2003-05-05 11:26:32" updated="2005-03-20 09:03:40">
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thraxil</author>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;After a few years, I learned that what I had implemented is a very common algorithm in a lot of different fields: Markov Chains :).&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;yay, markov chains! i use markov chains to generate random posts for my &lt;a href="http://thraxil.org/"&gt;weblog&lt;/a&gt;. it uses the database of all other posts to build the transition matrix.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p align="right"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~anders/"&gt;anders pearson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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