Paul Graham Markov Chain Autocomplete for Twitter
Start a tweet with @letpgfinish, and it will be finished as if by Paul Graham himself. This was a weekend project I undertook with a couple of friends just for fun. The original one was @letkanyefinish, so you might like to try that out too... in fact, it seems to work much better (funnily enough, there's a definite inverse relationship between literacy of bot and literacy of its human counterpart). Anyway, the output is based on pg's essays and various tweets/quotes. Having used HN silently for a while, we thought we'd share this - so hope you enjoy :)
Paul Graham Markov Chain Autocomplete for Twitter launched on December 9, 2014 with 14 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches.
In plain words
This tool automatically completes tweets started with @letpgfinish by generating text in the style of Paul Graham, using his essays and published quotes as training data. Created as a weekend project, it uses Markov chain technology to produce continuations that mimic Graham's writing patterns. The bot is designed for Twitter users who want to see how their tweet starts would be finished by the noted tech entrepreneur and essayist.
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