Linear Digressions

Random Kanye


Listen Later

Ever feel like you could randomly assemble words from a certain vocabulary and make semi-coherent Kanye West lyrics? Or technical documentation, imitations of local newscasters, your politically outspoken uncle, etc.? Wonder no more, there's a way to do this exact type of thing: it's called a Markov Chain, and probably the most powerful way to generate made-up data that you can then use for fun and profit. The idea behind a Markov Chain is that you probabilistically generate a sequence of steps, numbers, words, etc. where each next step/number/word depends only on the previous one, which makes it fast and efficient to computationally generate. Usually Markov Chains are used for serious academic uses, but this ain't one of them: here they're used to randomly generate rap lyrics based on Kanye West lyrics.
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

Linear DigressionsBy Ben Jaffe and Katie Malone

  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8

4.8

353 ratings


More shows like Linear Digressions

View all
99% Invisible by Roman Mars

99% Invisible

26,135 Listeners

You Are Not So Smart by You Are Not So Smart

You Are Not So Smart

1,713 Listeners

Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn by Jon Krohn

Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

297 Listeners

The Daily by The New York Times

The Daily

111,438 Listeners

The Ezra Klein Show by New York Times Opinion

The Ezra Klein Show

15,207 Listeners

WSJ's Take On the Week by The Wall Street Journal

WSJ's Take On the Week

131 Listeners

The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott by Audacy, Red Hour, Great Scott

The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott

2,162 Listeners