Crate markovish

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Dead simple text generation using markov chains. The text generator behind pandoras_pot.

Right now this generator only supports second order Markov chains, that is, it looks at two symbols at a time and then guesses what the third might be (weighted depending on how likely the three-word combination is in the source text). The randomness is built using a weighted distribution (see rand_distr::weighted_alias::WeightedAliasIndex).

markovish uses hashbrown internally for extra speed. However, the default hasher used by hashbrown does not provide the same level of protection against HashDoS attacks as the standard library hasher. If you are only going to use markovish on texts you trust, you can ignore this.

use markovish::Chain;
let fortune = r#"
This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.  If this had been an
actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you?
"#;
let chain = Chain::from_text(fortune).unwrap();
let new_fortune = chain.generate_str(&mut rand::thread_rng(), 300);

The examples in this crate use rand::thread_rng(), but if you want things to go fast you could try using rand::rngs::SmallRng, which is generally faster but not as safe (but you should NOT use this crate to generate passwords anyway).

§Features

markovish comes with some feature(s) that you can disable (or enable) at will. They are:

  • inline-more: Enables the hashbrown inline-more feature, improving performance at the cost of compilation time. Enabled by default.
  • serde: Allows for serializing and deserializing some of the data structures in this library, so they can be stored and reused once created. Especially serializing ChainBuilder is useful, since the same chain can be recreated without having to parse the text again.

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