Happy birthday to me!
July 01, 2014 by Marco Cecconi
July 01, 2014 by Marco Cecconi
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
I am the Chief R&D at BaxEnergy, developer, hacker, blogger, conference lecturer. Bio: ex Stack Overflow core, ex Toptal core.
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