interesting. i never knew what a markov chain was before… even though i have implemented more than one… after all getting a distribution from data and then using it to produce a model by sampling the distribution isn’t really a big leap of understanding. i’d always just labelled this as “a monte-carlo method” and never accorded it special distinction…
interesting that it is so effective for langauge too… although still, the sentences are gibberish. however… i wonder if a more comprehensive model of writing could not be made by analysing more than just the constituent letters of words or their order in text.
something for me to mess with coding whilst bored at work anyway… 