Comment on Show HN: Markov chains explained visuallyparentComments−DanBC12yShannon'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.−dragonwriter12yIt'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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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.
I don't think that's the most use they've gotten, just the most obvious and visible use.