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Awesome Funny Markov Chains

A facetiously curated list of delightfully amusing Markov chain output, inspired by memorylessness.

If you want to contribute to this list (please do), send a pull request or contact me @sublimino.

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Table of Contents

• Web and Tech
• Twitter
• Media
• Tools
• A history of funny Markov chains
• Sober applications

Web and Tech

• Headline Smasher - Fake headlines created by smashing up real headlines.
• Subreddit Simulator - The most confusing subreddit (often on the front page).
• Alternative Hacker News - Hacker News dataset eats itself.
• Phaker News - Another spin on Hacker News.
• Cybersauce Broadcasting Corporation - A computer generated and dictated podcast.
• Java! Real or Not? - Guess the Spring Framework class name.
• Your Swimsuit Jumped Over Its Own Weathercock, You Liar! - A dating sim about the futility of dating sims.
• The Doom That Came to Puppet - Mutations on Puppet documentation and the assorted works of H. P. Lovecraft.
• King James Programming - Combined King James Bible, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, and some of Eric S. Raymond’s writings.
• Git man page Generator - Suspiciously believeable (but incorrect) Git documentation.
• Jon Skeet bot - Stack Overflow’s homage to their greatest ever user, Jon Skeet.
• StackExchange Simulator - Random question and answers based on the StackOverflow/StackExchange data dumps.
• 4chan Text Generator - With sample inputs for /biz/ /pol/ /b/ /fit/ (NSFW).

Twitter

• @erowidrecruiter - Erowid trip reports and tech recruiter emails.
• @TwoHeadlines - Takes two headlines about different things and then confuses them.
• @SarowidPalinUSA - Sarah Palin speeches and Erowid trip reports.
• @twatterhose - A mashup of the Twitter public timeline.
• @redditron - Reddit comments.
• @markovmtg - [Magic] Markov the Gathering.
• @HNTitles - HN Titles.
• @BeerSnobSays - Drunk tweeting nonsensical beer reviews.
• @icowid - a markov bot trained on erowid trip reports and ICO whitepapers.
• @hipsterwid - An hipster bot trained on Erowid trip reports and Pitchfork’s album reviews.

Media

• Calvin and Markov - Calvin and Hobbes strips reimagined.
• Garkov - Transcripts of old Garfield strips.
• The Big Markovski - The Big Lebowski.
• Jesus Markoving Christ - An incoherent savior for an incoherent age.
• XKCD - 90’s Flowchart.
• Markov Bible - The whole book (archive.org).
• Automatic Donald Trump - Donald Trump’s smart keyboard.
• Insta-Trump - create a mathematically generated Trump speech.

Tools

• That Can Be My Next Tweet - Generates your future tweets based on the DNA of your existing messages.
• Mark V. Shaney at Your Service - Interactie Markov examples.
• foswig.js - Generate awesome Javascript project names from the popular JavaScript library names on GitHub.
• Benedict Cumberbatch Name Generator - Permutations on the gentleman’s names.
• Reimagined Yo Mama - yo mama jokes using markov chains (code only).

A history of funny Markov chains

• “I Spent an Interesting Evening Recently with a Grain of Salt” - The Original Prank (archive.org).
• Mark V. Shaney’s Website - Mark V. Shaney’s finest hours (archive.org).
• Fun With Markov Chains - Featuring “Alice in Elsinore: The Alice books and Hamlet”, and “The Revelation of St. Alice: The Alice books, and the books of Genesis and Revelation”.

Sober applications

• PageRank - Google is built on Markov Chains.
• Digital Music Programming - MIDI Markov music.
• A visual explanation of Markov chains - A useful guide to Markov chains by Victor Powell.

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