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by harvestmoon 4219 days ago
Ensuring quality when you randomly generate things is hard.

I made a word generator tool. In doing so, for just 6-14 letter words, I had to develop a large amount of quality regulation formulas that would detect unnatural patterns ("xamxo" for instance might be a questionable pattern to have in a word).

Anyway, the thought of coming up with a generator to make a whole book (at least one that is coherent) is an interesting one - and much, much more challenging.

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Ah, your note reminds me of The Automated Curse Generator story on The Daily WTF...:

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Automated-Curse-Generato...

Fun article, thanks - gave me a good laugh!