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# edu-9kuk
title: 'Markov lesson: Text Generation with Markov Chains'
status: completed
type: task
priority: high
created_at: 2026-03-10T23:30:01Z
updated_at: 2026-03-10T23:30:01Z
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Write Section 6 of edu/markov.md: 'Text Generation with Markov Chains'\n\nLearning objectives:\n- Explain how words (or characters) become states in a text Markov chain\n- Define bigrams and how they form a transition table from a corpus\n- Discuss why generated text sounds locally plausible but globally incoherent\n- Introduce the concept of order-n chains and the tradeoff between coherence and novelty\n\nContent to produce:\n- 3–5 paragraphs of prose\n- A short worked bigram example from a 2-sentence sample text (show the table)\n- No code in this section\n\nTarget: replace the stub in edu/markov.md §6