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Shannon's paper becomes a lot more fun once you've grokked Markov chains.

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pd...

There's a bunch of fun stuff that suddenly becomes possible.

It's gently distressing that by far the most use that Markov chains have seen so far is to generate English-like gibberish text to beat spam filters.

It's gently distressing that by far the most use that Markov chains have seen so far is to generate English-like gibberish text to beat spam filters.

I don't think that's the most use they've gotten, just the most obvious and visible use.

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