{"id":4119,"date":"2020-05-16T20:38:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T20:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=4119"},"modified":"2020-05-16T20:38:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T20:38:54","slug":"ngram-story-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/ngram-story-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Ngram story: Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who haven&#8217;t seen these before, <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/ngrams\/\">Google Ngram viewer<\/a> is a site that takes input of up to 4 words and, based on the millions of books, magazines, academic papers, etc. it has scanned, predicts the next word. I have inputted the italicized phrases and then recorded the next words as predicted by Ngram from the preceding ones. The results can be amusing &#8211; or not. If it can&#8217;t find enough of a 4-word phrase to predict, it may be necessary to reduce the input to one or two words. Bear in mind the Ngram AI has no memory of any part of the sentence\/story earlier than four words so the grammar and content often turn wonky, which is the whole point. So here&#8217;s the story:<\/p>\n<p><em>The pandemic is<\/em> a global phenomenon that has been observed in the case of the latter two. <em>The virus<\/em> is transmitted by the bite of a mad dog. <em>Social distancing<\/em> of the neglectful family environment and the people in the world who could have done it. <em>Stay at home<\/em> and do not have to be a little more careful. <em>Doctors agree that<\/em> the first step in the process of being made into a movie starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman in the movie Rain Man was not created to be a helper. <em>Politics and medicine<\/em> are sufficiently disagreeable to quarrel upon Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who haven&#8217;t seen these before, Google Ngram viewer is a site that takes input of up to 4 words and, based on the millions of books, magazines, academic papers, etc. it has scanned, predicts the next word. 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