Coding Challenge #42.1: Markov Chains – Part 1

Coding By Builder

In Part 1 of this Coding Challenge, I discuss the concepts of “N-grams” and “Markov Chains” as they relate to text. I use Markova chains to generate text automatically based on a source text.

Programming from A to Z – Markov Chains URL: http://shiffman.net/a2z/markov

Part 2: http://youtu.be/9r8CmofnbAQ

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Links discussed in this session:
Google’s Ngram Viewer: https://books.google.com/ngrams
n-gram on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-gram
Chris Harrison’s Web Trigrams: http://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Visualizations/WebTrigrams
Allison Parrish’s(https://twitter.com/aparrish) Generative Course Descriptions: http://static.decontextualize.com/toys/next_semester?
Allison Parrish’s website: http://www.decontextualize.com/
Michael Walker’s King James Programming: http://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/
Victor Powell’s Markov Chains Explained: http://setosa.io/ev/markov-chains/
Flooper’s Perlin Noise song: https://soundcloud.com/fl00per/perlin-noise

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Processing: https://processing.org

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