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I created the Robot Donald Trump twitter bot in a few days during summer 2016. It uses Markov chains, trained on Trump campaign speeches, random songs, and crazy conspiracy theory sites to generate a tweet every 15 minutes. Automated grammar-correction functions turn the gibberish Markov chain output into something resembling English. Noun phrase chunking finds subjects to turn into hashtags and Sentiment analysis is used to add Trump’s characteristic terminating mood statements. It also occasionally adds a link to a site related to the tweet.

As of Dec. 2016 it was getting 100,000+ hits a month.

I shut it down in Jan. 2017 because it just got so depressing – passion projects should be fun!

Here’s it’s latest tweets:
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My work on Sapling Detector at the 2015 New York Museum of Natural History ‘Hack the Dinos’ hackathon got me a quoted in a New York Times article:‘Hack the Dinos’ Helps Paleontologists