https://www.rostrum.blog/tags/furrr/ Recent content in Furrr on rostrum.blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/04/30/markov-chain-phd-2/ Tue, 30 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/04/30/markov-chain-phd-2/ This is science, I promise. tl;dr A Markov chain perfectly summarises my entire PhD thesis: In general, litter chemical composition and decomposition. {markovifyR} I posted a while back about using a Markov chain to generate sentences using my PhD thesis as input. I also posted about the {markovifyR} package for generating lyrics by The Mountain Goats. This is a quick update to that original post, but this time I’m using {markovifyR}. https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/04/25/gen-tmg-lyrics/ Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/04/25/gen-tmg-lyrics/ John Darnielle with the green-scaled slipcase for In League with Dragons (Merge Records, via Giphy) The Mountain Goats released In League with Dragons today, their seventeenth studio album. John Darnielle has written a lot of words across the Mountain Goat’s back catalogue. His lyrics are poetic and descriptive, covering fictional and autobiographical themes that include substance abuse, professional wrestling and cadaver-sniffing dogs. Can we generate new Mountain Goats lyrics given this rich text data set?