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by killerstorm 1188 days ago
"Markov chain" might mean:

* a kind of stochastic model * a "naive" realization of that model which directly counts frequencies of N-dimensional vectors

This naive implementation is sometimes used for language modeling, e.g. for the purpose of compression. So people might think you mean that particular implementation rather than a theoretical model.

This sort of a description can be unhelpful.