Show HN: Paul Graham Markov Chain Autocomplete for Twitter

[edmoyse]

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 :)

[bootload]

this is pretty good given the length for the return message is limited & answers are (usually) long.

    me: What should I do first?
    pgsays: what should I do first? - Get ramen profitable.
 
    me: Lisp
    pgsays: 'lisp programmers divide up their minds, 
             and excessive dilution in series A stage.'

    me: Computer language
    pgsays: 'computer language choice for founders 
            to read is Dale Carnegie's How to hack 
            also means that when you can tell them they'

    me: hackers, geeks & nerds
    pgsays: 'hackers, geeks & nerds should be 
             just as worried about premature design 
             - designing too early what a program 
             should do'

[edmoyse → bootload]

Haha, yea - although perhaps not quite ready for me to start following his advice ;)

[edmoyse]

Links to try them out:

https://twitter.com/letpgfinish (Paul Graham)

https://twitter.com/letkanyefinish (Kanye)

[edmoyse]

Okay, so it looks like the pg bot spouts complete startup gibberish... Kanye is doing much better though

[bardec]

This is a cool weekend project! Do you have the source available?

[edmoyse → bardec]

It's not available publicly just yet, but we'll put it up if you're interested