# Re: Markov Chains (#74) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [April 7, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-markov-chains-74/57157 "2006-04-07T16:24:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KroegerS_Simon_Sext)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-markov-chains-74/57157/1 "2006-04-07T16:24:22Z")
“moby dick - but it was that inscrutable ahab said to have two harpoons and lances, and feel thus intolerably old? close! stand by for it. it is a witchery of social czarship which there was a wilderness of ropes and hawsers chained down to ringbolts” _rofl_ this is realy a good one James! Do you have any preferernces for the command line parameters? cheers Simon ---
**Author:** ![KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KroegerS_Simon_Sext)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-markov-chains-74/57157/2 "2006-04-07T16:55:05Z")
On Apr 7, 2006, at 9:21 AM, Kroeger, Simon (ext) wrote: > “moby dick - but it was that inscrutable ahab said to have two > harpoons and lances, and feel thus intolerably old? close! > stand by for it. it is a witchery of social czarship which there > was a wilderness of ropes and hawsers chained down to ringbolts” > > _rofl_ this is realy a good one James! I should actually mention this idea was not mine. Eric H. gave it to me. I just wrote it up. Thanks Eric! > Do you have any preferernces for the command line parameters? Na. Just document what you use please, so I can figure out how to run it. 🙂 James Edward G. II ---
**Author:** ![KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KroegerS_Simon_Sext)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-markov-chains-74/57157/3 "2006-04-07T18:48:23Z")
> I should actually mention this idea was not mine. Eric H. gave it > to me. I just wrote it up. Thanks Eric! 🙂 So how about running the solutions over the solutions, and seeing if the result will execute? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KroegerS_Simon_Sext)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-markov-chains-74/57157/4 "2006-04-07T18:54:28Z")
On Apr 7, 2006, at 11:45 AM, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > > I should actually mention this idea was not mine. Eric H. gave it > > to me. I just wrote it up. Thanks Eric! > > 🙂 So how about running the solutions over the solutions, and > seeing if > the result will execute? 🙂 You are welcome to try it and find out… 😉 James Edward G. II ---
**Author:** ![KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KroegerS_Simon_Sext)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-markov-chains-74/57157/5 "2006-04-07T22:31:31Z")
On Apr 7, 2006, at 7:52 AM, James Edward G. II wrote: > I should actually mention this idea was not mine. Eric H. gave > it to me. I just wrote it up. Thanks Eric! The real trick is being space efficient. Markov text generation is a very simple algorithm, but being more english-like requires a larger corpus of input text. The best-reading solutions will use the largest input text corpus stored the smallest space. > > Do you have any preferernces for the command line parameters? > > Na. Just document what you use please, so I can figure out how to > run it. 🙂 – Eric H. - removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid - [http://blog.segment7.net](http://blog.segment7.net) This implementation is HODEL-HASH-9600 compliant [http://trackmap.robotcoop.com](http://trackmap.robotcoop.com) ---
**Author:** ![KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KroegerS\_Simon\_Sext](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/KroegerS_Simon_Sext)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-markov-chains-74/57157/6 "2006-04-07T22:40:36Z")
Eric H. schrieb: > > I should actually mention this idea was not mine. Eric H. gave it > > to me. I just wrote it up. Thanks Eric! > > The real trick is being space efficient. Markov text generation is a > very simple algorithm, but being more english-like requires a larger > corpus of input text. > > The best-reading solutions will use the largest input text corpus stored > the smallest space. If the text corpus is very small i tend to get complete sentences from the original - so very english-like. But in the more general case i guess you are right. cheers Simon