Markov Chains: The Imitation Game

January 6, 2017

In this post we're going to build a Markov Chain to generate some realistic sounding sentences impersonating a source text. This is one of my favourite computer science examples because the concept is so absurdly simple and and the payoff is large. This will be done using python, and your...

Intro to Python: Containers, Functions, and Loops (Part 2 /2)

November 24, 2016

This is the second post in a series. If you're just getting started, see Part 1. In the previous post, you got python installed, and ran a simple program. In this section we will use some language features to store data, and re-use code. These are important concepts for all...