Today a guy whom i know - a religious kind of guy - was telling me that prostitution was the worst profession since prostitutes sell their body....what just occurred me was that man is man because of our mind and our capacity to imagine and dream and then bring our imagination into being.....and we sell this mind to the highest bidder(we call it salary),.....what's worse - selling your mind or selling your body.......just a thought.....
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...
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