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KingJamesProgramming [1] - a mashup of Knuth books [2] and the King James Bible with a Markov chain, is still one of my favorite reads for a laugh.

It was also the first place I was really exposed to probabilistic-based methods for generation of novel content.

You get gems like:

"they smote the city with the edge of the sword. 22:20 And one of his main motivations was the high cost of proprietary software houses."

and

"37:29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and leave it for an inheritance unto the children of Gad according to the number of steps that is linear in b."

[1] https://www.tumblr.com/kingjamesprogramming

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth

parent dfsegoat 1 year ago

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