back then when i was introduced to computers and Linux the first time, i struggled to learn Bash Programming . But just yesterday to automate a few tests (so that i could start the bash file and run the tests , and i could go to bed , to check out the results the next morning) i needed to program a bash file..... and i did it in just a few minutes (kidding , took an hour). Engineering has a few advantages after all. Almost all my friends , me included always say that the engineering course we take is really useless......all the topics are out of date..... but it gives us the skill sets to understand new things and also to bring them into being. this is the most important and least appreciated benefit of the engineering course.
A few days back, I saw this article “ How to fake a sophisticated knowledge of Wine with Markov Chains ” on the programming subreddit. To my utter delight, the article referenced the code, along with a very detailed explanation, so I spent an hour getting it all to work. The hour taken was no fault of the original authors, it was taken because I wanted to get a good hang of XPath, which will be the topic of a later post. The program auto-generates wine reviews, by using Markov Chains to come up with a sequence of most probable trigrams. It was great fun spouting my expert-level sommelier reviews, especially considering that I can count on one hand the number of times I have actually tasted wine! The reviews were just the right amount of ambiguous with a hint of snobbishness (which, according to me, just made the whole thing perfectly more believable). While I was showing off my new-found expertise in wines, my partner in crime, Rupsa , told me it could probably be used for ot...
Comments
Post a Comment