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pknerd
on Feb 18, 2015
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“A spambot barfed its post recipe on my blog”
WOW. Loved this
comment template
. It could have a legitimate use in software development to generate some meaningful random text for mockups.
nerfhammer
on Feb 18, 2015
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You can use a context-free grammar to produce amusing and sometimes convincing writing if the writing style it's intended to imitate is sufficiently obtuse, e.g.:
http://davidsd.org/2009/01/the-real-theorem-generator-a-cont...
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
digi_owl
on Feb 18, 2015
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In other words, a bullshit generator?
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