On Asparagus

I'm trying to automate the internet. Think of how much time I can save in a day if I just convince my computer to do all of the online stuff I normally do. Respond to emails. Check sports scores. Get lost on Wikipedia determining what countries have non-rectangular flags.

Well, I'm one step closer to automating myself. I've created a python script that can create blog entries on my behalf with minimal effort of my own. Let's say, for instance, that I want to write about asparagus but don't have the time to bother with research, or don't actually have any asparagus opinions. In the olden days, I'd have had to call it a day, and the world would miss out on one more rambling post about asparagus. No longer is this the case!

Now the Trigram Post Simulator (TPS) reports what other bloggers have already thought about asparagus in the form of a simple, muddled post. Observe:

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Sure it's imperfect, but it's only at version 1.0. By version 3.0 no one will even want to talk to me; they'll just head straight for the TPS. And it's really easy - I just tell TPS what I want to post about, and it goes and finds 200 posts about it. Then it creates a trigram model of the posts it found and uses that model to construct a novel post of its own. How much time I'm saving! And it's no less coherent than most of my posts!