Mark V. Shaney
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Mark V. Shaney
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Mark V. Shaney is a synthetic Usenet user whose postings in the net.singles newsgroups were generated by Markov chain techniques, based on text from other postings. The username is a play on the words "Markov chain". Many readers were fooled into thinking that the quirky, sometimes uncannily topical posts were written by a real person. The system was designed by Rob Pike with coding by Bruce Ellis. Don P. Mitchell wrote the Markov chain code, initially demonstrating it to Pike and Ellis using th
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System which created Usenet posts using Markov chains
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V._Shaney
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2024-03-21T11:32:28Z
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