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A curated list of delightfully amusing and facetious Markov chain output.
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A curated list of delightfully amusing and facetious Markov chain output.

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# Awesome Funny Markov Chains [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)



A facetiously curated list of delightfully amusing Markov chain output, inspired by [memorylessness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorylessness).



If you want to [contribute](https://github.com/sublimino/awesome-funny-markov/blob/master/contributing.md) to this list (please do), send a pull request or contact me [@sublimino](https://twitter.com/sublimino).



Looking for more information on Markov Chains? Try [Awesome Machine Learning](https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning).



## Table of Contents



- [Web and Tech](#web-and-tech)

- [Twitter](#twitter)

- [Media](#media)

- [Tools](#tools)

- [A history of funny Markov chains](#a-history-of-funny-markov-chains)

- [Sober applications](#sober-applications)



## Web and Tech



- [Headline Smasher](http://www.headlinesmasher.com/best/all) - Fake headlines created by smashing up real headlines.

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

- [Alternative Hacker News](https://news.ycombniator.com/) - Hacker News dataset eats itself.

- [Phaker News](http://namuol.github.io/phaker-news/) - Another spin on Hacker News.

- [Cybersauce Broadcasting Corporation](http://www.x11r5.com/radio/) - A computer generated and dictated podcast.

- [Java! Real or Not?](http://java.metagno.me/) - Guess the Spring Framework class name.

- [Your Swimsuit Jumped Over Its Own Weathercock, You Liar!](https://patchydollgames.itch.io/yourswimsuit) - A dating sim about the futility of dating sims.

- [The Doom That Came to Puppet](http://thedoomthatcametopuppet.tumblr.com/) - Mutations on Puppet documentation and the assorted works of H. P. Lovecraft.

- [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.

- [Git man page Generator](http://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/) - Suspiciously believeable (but incorrect) Git documentation.

- [Jon Skeet bot](https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/01/15/thanks-million-jon-skeet/) - Stack Overflow's homage to their greatest ever user, Jon Skeet.

- [StackExchange Simulator](https://se-simulator.lw1.at/) - Random question and answers based on the StackOverflow/StackExchange data dumps.

- [4chan Text Generator](https://github.com/02sh/4chanMarkovText) - With sample inputs for /biz/ /pol/ /b/ /fit/ (NSFW).



## Twitter



- [@erowidrecruiter](https://twitter.com/erowidrecruiter) - Erowid trip reports and tech recruiter emails.

- [@TwoHeadlines](https://twitter.com/TwoHeadlines) - Takes two headlines about different things and then confuses them.

- [@SarowidPalinUSA](https://twitter.com/SarowidPalinUSA) - Sarah Palin speeches and Erowid trip reports.

- [@twatterhose](https://twitter.com/twatterhose) - A mashup of the Twitter public timeline.

- [@redditron](https://twitter.com/redditron) - Reddit comments.

- [@markovmtg](https://twitter.com/markovmtg) - [Magic] Markov the Gathering.

- [@HNTitles](https://twitter.com/HNTitles) - HN Titles.

- [@BeerSnobSays](https://twitter.com/BeerSnobSays) - Drunk tweeting nonsensical beer reviews.

- [@icowid](https://twitter.com/icowid) - a markov bot trained on erowid trip reports and ICO whitepapers.

- [@hipsterwid](https://twitter.com/hipsterwid) - An hipster bot trained on Erowid trip reports and Pitchfork's album reviews.



## Media



- [Calvin and Markov](http://joshmillard.com/markov/calvin/) - Calvin and Hobbes strips reimagined.

- [Garkov](http://joshmillard.com/garkov/) - Transcripts of old Garfield strips.

- [The Big Markovski](http://joshmillard.com/markov/lebowski/) - The Big Lebowski.

- [Jesus Markoving Christ](http://joshmillard.com/markov/christ/) - An incoherent savior for an incoherent age.

- [XKCD](https://xkcd.com/210/) - 90's Flowchart.

- [Markov Bible](https://web.archive.org/web/20081224025955/http://www.markovbible.com/) - The whole book (archive.org).

- [Automatic Donald Trump](https://filiph.github.io/markov/) - Donald Trump's smart keyboard.

- [Insta-Trump](http://trump.frost.works/) - create a mathematically generated Trump speech.



## Tools



- [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.

- [Mark V. Shaney at Your Service](http://www.yisongyue.com/shaney/) - Interactie Markov examples.

- [foswig.js](http://mrsharpoblunto.github.io/foswig.js/) - Generate awesome Javascript project names from the popular JavaScript library names on GitHub.

- [Benedict Cumberbatch Name Generator](http://benedictcumberbatchgenerator.tumblr.com/) - Permutations on the gentleman's names.

- [Reimagined Yo Mama](https://github.com/Trshant/reimagined-yomama) - yo mama jokes using markov chains (code only).



## A history of funny Markov chains



- ["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).

- [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).

- [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".



## Sober applications



- [PageRank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank?oldformat=true#Damping_factor) - Google is built on Markov Chains.

- [Digital Music Programming](http://peabody.sapp.org/class/dmp2/lab/markov1/) - MIDI Markov music.

- [A visual explanation of Markov chains](http://setosa.io/blog/2014/07/26/markov-chains/) - A useful guide to Markov chains by Victor Powell.



## License



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