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ShingleBot: A random sentence generator based on rejection sampling Monte Carlo (shinglebot.com)
2 points by wordlibrarian 3907 days ago
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This is neat. (but when using it, it kinda feels like I could get as good or better results with just Math.random & a large collection of words each assigned a random value)
True. I think it's a size problem. It would be interesting to have a bigger vocabulary and play with the distribution to allow rarer words in it. Without grammar, though, a random selection of words would look like in libraryofwords.com, i.e. most of the time non-sensical