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grebcyesterday at 7:59 PM3 repliesview on HN

There’s absolutely nothing existential about a program that guesses the next word based on the last.


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ricketycricketyesterday at 9:16 PM

There’s absolutely nothing existential about a tiny powder that just combusts very quickly.

arjieyesterday at 8:06 PM

Truly such a first-order Markov chain would not be a threat but it turns out that they have built a program that guesses the next word based on the last few hundred thousand and it turns out that it works pretty well for writing software.

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tptacekyesterday at 8:00 PM

There is if you're a software developer!

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