{"id":78,"date":"2009-10-31T15:09:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T15:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/78\/fun-markov-chains-book-mormon-names\/"},"modified":"2010-05-17T19:54:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T01:54:49","slug":"fun-markov-chains-book-mormon-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/fun-markov-chains-book-mormon-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with Markov chains and Book of Mormon names"},"content":{"rendered":"

So a guy posted on Reddit<\/a> yesterday about the Markov text generator that he wrote to generate pseudo-Greek names. \u00a0 If you don’t know what a Markov chain is, Wikipedia explains<\/a> that “Markov processes can also be used to generate superficially ‘real-looking’ text given a sample document”. \u00a0 In his case, he put in all of the names of characters from Homer’s Iliad to create new, similar words automatically<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Greek<\/a><\/p>\n

My first thought was to plug in Book of Mormon names. \u00a0 I noticed that the guy had already done Bible Names<\/a> (along with Prescription Drugs<\/a> and Rock Bands<\/a>), but I wanted pseudo-Book of Mormon names. \u00a0 What if you wanted to name a baby something distinctly “Mormon”, but thought that “Nephi” and “Moroni” — and even “Aminadab” — were too popular already?<\/p>\n

I found this list of BoM names<\/a> on Wikipedia and took out all the repeats and the explanations, and plugged it into the generator as a source text to create this : Word-o-Matic – Book of Mormon names<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Book<\/a><\/p>\n

It spits out stuff like “Helakish”, “Koriancumer” and “Zerahemish”. \u00a0 Try it out to see if it creates your next baby name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So a guy posted on Reddit yesterday about the Markov text generator that he wrote to generate pseudo-Greek names. \u00a0 If you don’t know what a Markov chain is, Wikipedia explains that “Markov processes can also be used to generate superficially ‘real-looking’ text given a sample document”. \u00a0 In his case, he put in all… Continue reading Fun with Markov chains and Book of Mormon names<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[32,31,33],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-web-stuff","tag-book-of-mormon","tag-markov-chains","tag-names","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtisgibby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}