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		thegeomaster on Dec 6, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Markov chain trained on the Puppet documentation... Of what order is this Markov chain? To me at least, this looks a lot more sensible than the usual gibberish produced by chains of order 1. Anyhow, hilarious.

brananaphone on Dec 7, 2014 | [–]

They are mostly made with 3- and 4-grams. Any lower and it's not particularly coherent, any higher and there's not enough crossover.

failrate on Dec 6, 2014 | [–]

I can get similar coherence with N-Grams where N >= 3

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