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Try [Awesome Machine Learning](https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning).\n\n## Table of Contents\n\n- [Web and Tech](#web-and-tech)\n- [Twitter](#twitter)\n- [Media](#media)\n- [Tools](#tools)\n- [A history of funny Markov chains](#a-history-of-funny-markov-chains)\n- [Sober applications](#sober-applications)\n\n## Web and Tech\n\n- [Headline Smasher](http://www.headlinesmasher.com/best/all) - Fake headlines created by smashing up real headlines.\n- [Subreddit Simulator](https://www.reddit.com/r/subredditsimulator) - The most confusing subreddit (often on the front page).\n- [Alternative Hacker News](https://news.ycombniator.com/) - Hacker News dataset eats itself.\n- [Phaker News](http://namuol.github.io/phaker-news/) - Another spin on Hacker News.\n- [Cybersauce Broadcasting Corporation](http://www.x11r5.com/radio/) - A computer generated and dictated podcast.\n- [Java! Real or Not?](http://java.metagno.me/) - Guess the Spring Framework class name.\n- [Your Swimsuit Jumped Over Its Own Weathercock, You Liar!](https://patchydollgames.itch.io/yourswimsuit) - A dating sim about the futility of dating sims.\n- [The Doom That Came to Puppet](http://thedoomthatcametopuppet.tumblr.com/) - Mutations on Puppet documentation and the assorted works of H. P. Lovecraft.\n- [King James Programming](http://kingjamesprogramming.tumblr.com/) - Combined King James Bible, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, and some of Eric S. Raymond's writings.\n- [Git man page Generator](http://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/) - Suspiciously believeable (but incorrect) Git documentation.\n- [Jon Skeet bot](https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/01/15/thanks-million-jon-skeet/) - Stack Overflow's homage to their greatest ever user, Jon Skeet.\n- [StackExchange Simulator](https://se-simulator.lw1.at/) - Random question and answers based on the StackOverflow/StackExchange data dumps.\n- [4chan Text Generator](https://github.com/02sh/4chanMarkovText) - With sample inputs for /biz/ /pol/ /b/ /fit/ (NSFW).\n\n## Twitter\n\n- [@erowidrecruiter](https://twitter.com/erowidrecruiter) - Erowid trip reports and tech recruiter emails.\n- [@TwoHeadlines](https://twitter.com/TwoHeadlines) - Takes two headlines about different things and then confuses them.\n- [@SarowidPalinUSA](https://twitter.com/SarowidPalinUSA) - Sarah Palin speeches and Erowid trip reports.\n- [@twatterhose](https://twitter.com/twatterhose) - A mashup of the Twitter public timeline.\n- [@redditron](https://twitter.com/redditron) - Reddit comments.\n- [@markovmtg](https://twitter.com/markovmtg) - [Magic] Markov the Gathering.\n- [@HNTitles](https://twitter.com/HNTitles) - HN Titles.\n- [@BeerSnobSays](https://twitter.com/BeerSnobSays) - Drunk tweeting nonsensical beer reviews.\n- [@icowid](https://twitter.com/icowid) - a markov bot trained on erowid trip reports and ICO whitepapers.\n- [@hipsterwid](https://twitter.com/hipsterwid) - An hipster bot trained on Erowid trip reports and Pitchfork's album reviews.\n\n## Media\n\n- [Calvin and Markov](http://joshmillard.com/markov/calvin/) - Calvin and Hobbes strips reimagined.\n- [Garkov](http://joshmillard.com/garkov/) - Transcripts of old Garfield strips.\n- [The Big Markovski](http://joshmillard.com/markov/lebowski/) - The Big Lebowski.\n- [Jesus Markoving Christ](http://joshmillard.com/markov/christ/) - An incoherent savior for an incoherent age.\n- [XKCD](https://xkcd.com/210/) - 90's Flowchart.\n- [Markov Bible](https://web.archive.org/web/20081224025955/http://www.markovbible.com/) - The whole book (archive.org).\n- [Automatic Donald Trump](https://filiph.github.io/markov/) - Donald Trump's smart keyboard.\n- [Insta-Trump](http://trump.frost.works/) - create a mathematically generated Trump speech.\n\n## Tools\n\n- [That Can Be My Next Tweet](http://yes.thatcan.be/my/next/tweet/) - Generates your future tweets based on the DNA of your existing messages.\n- [Mark V. Shaney at Your Service](http://www.yisongyue.com/shaney/) - Interactie Markov examples.\n- [foswig.js](http://mrsharpoblunto.github.io/foswig.js/) - Generate awesome Javascript project names from the popular JavaScript library names on GitHub.\n- [Benedict Cumberbatch Name Generator](http://benedictcumberbatchgenerator.tumblr.com/) - Permutations on the gentleman's names.\n- [Reimagined Yo Mama](https://github.com/Trshant/reimagined-yomama) - yo mama jokes using markov chains (code only).\n\n## A history of funny Markov chains\n\n- [\"I Spent an Interesting Evening Recently with a Grain of Salt\"](https://web.archive.org/web/20011101013348/http://www.sincity.com/penn-n-teller/pcc/shaney.html) - The Original Prank (archive.org).\n- [Mark V. Shaney's Website](https://web.archive.org/web/19970418070034/http://softway.com.au/people/mvs/) - Mark V. Shaney's finest hours (archive.org).\n- [Fun With Markov Chains](http://www.eblong.com/zarf/markov/) - Featuring \"Alice in Elsinore: The Alice books and Hamlet\", and \"The Revelation of St. Alice: The Alice books, and the books of Genesis and Revelation\".\n\n## Sober applications\n\n- [PageRank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank?oldformat=true#Damping_factor) - Google is built on Markov Chains.\n- [Digital Music Programming](http://peabody.sapp.org/class/dmp2/lab/markov1/) - MIDI Markov music.\n- [A visual explanation of Markov chains](http://setosa.io/blog/2014/07/26/markov-chains/) - A useful guide to Markov chains by Victor Powell.\n\n## License\n\n[![CC0](http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/buttons/88x31/svg/cc-zero.svg)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fsublimino%2Fawesome-funny-markov","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fsublimino%2Fawesome-funny-markov","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fsublimino%2Fawesome-funny-markov/lists"}