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Show HN: Paul Graham Markov Chain Autocomplete for Twitter

14 points by edmoyse ↗ HN
Start a tweet with @letpgfinish, and it will be finished as if by Paul Graham himself.

This was a weekend project I undertook with a couple of friends just for fun. The original one was @letkanyefinish, so you might like to try that out too... in fact, it seems to work much better (funnily enough, there's a definite inverse relationship between literacy of bot and literacy of its human counterpart).

Anyway, the output is based on pg's essays and various tweets/quotes. Having used HN silently for a while, we thought we'd share this - so hope you enjoy :)

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edmoyse
Okay, so it looks like the pg bot spouts complete startup gibberish... Kanye is doing much better though
bootload
this is pretty good given the length for the return message is limited & answers are (usually) long.

    me: What should I do first?
    pgsays: what should I do first? - Get ramen profitable.
 
    me: Lisp
    pgsays: 'lisp programmers divide up their minds, 
             and excessive dilution in series A stage.'

    me: Computer language
    pgsays: 'computer language choice for founders 
            to read is Dale Carnegie's How to hack 
            also means that when you can tell them they'

    me: hackers, geeks & nerds
    pgsays: 'hackers, geeks & nerds should be 
             just as worried about premature design 
             - designing too early what a program 
             should do'
edmoyse
Haha, yea - although perhaps not quite ready for me to start following his advice ;)
bardec
This is a cool weekend project! Do you have the source available?
edmoyse
It's not available publicly just yet, but we'll put it up if you're interested