Happy birthday to me!

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As a quick fun thing to do today, I've created a personalized birthday wish generator using Markov chains. The code is pretty simple and unremarkable, and I've made it available as a gist.

Play with the online version here!

Sorry, I'll also party normally later :-) #nerd


Hi, I'm Marco Cecconi. I am the founder of Intelligent Hack, developer, hacker, blogger, conference lecturer. Bio: ex Stack Overflow core team, ex Toptal EM.

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