[sublimino]

Markov Chains can be quite amusing when applied to a corpus of similar texts, and often stunningly human-like. I maintain a list of humourous applications: https://github.com/sublimino/awesome-funny-markov

Some favourites:

- Erowid trip reports and tech recruiter emails - https://twitter.com/erowidrecruiter

- Calvin and Markov - Calvin and Hobbes strips reimagined http://joshmillard.com/markov/calvin/

- Generate your future tweets based on the DNA of your existing messages - http://yes.thatcan.be/my/next/tweet/

- Fake headlines created by smashing up real headlines - https://www.headlinesmasher.com/best/all

- The most confusing subreddit (often on the front page) - https://www.reddit.com/r/subredditsimulator

The original Markov-generated content prank: "I Spent an Interesting Evening Recently with a Grain of Salt" https://web.archive.org/web/20011101013348/http://www.sincit...

And of course (un-amusingly!) - Google's PageRank algorithm is built on Markov Chains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank#Damping_factor

n.b. there used to be parodies of Hacker News, but both are down: https://news.ycombniator.com/ and https://lou.wtf/phaker-news