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by complaintdept 675 days ago
My favorite markov experiment was feeding it the works of Nietzsche from Project Gutenberg. Really brought out the late stage syphilis, but was still very distinctly Nietzsche.
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I love messing with Markov chains, and before Reddit dunked their API, I would feed my Markov chain comments from NSFW subreddits and political subreddits at different sample sizes. I would spend ages just watching it whiplash about some political topic and sampling thirst comments.
The live feeds are all dead now, but you can still download archives of Reddit posts/comments from before they locked down the API:

https://academictorrents.com/details/9c263fc85366c1ef8f5bb9d...