in a nutshell: This post will be a little different in nature as I’m still working on a couple hacks that will require a few more weeks of work. In the interim I’ll explain the very basics of web scraping/crawling. This is a great skill to have as it will open the doors to the limitless [...]
Archive | October, 2011
Markov Model for English Text (a.k.a automatic article/essay/blog writer)
in a nutshell: This experiment used the Markov model for analyzing text. Sounds complicated, but really isn’t. However it does have some pretty awesome results. Basically, this model analyzes the probability of a character following some fragment of characters and then uses these probabilities to create some text. penny scale: The penny scale denotes the difficulty [...]
