F# Hands-On: Let's Build a Markov Bot! With sfsharp!

We have been invited by the San Francisco F# meetup to join them online for an extra meetup this month!

A Markov Bot is a simple computer program built to simulate a conversation. Such programs are often designed to engage in small talk with the aim of passing the Turing test by fooling the conversational partner into thinking that the program is a human. Markov Bots pull from an existing text, and create human-looking (hopefully) sentences by stringing together sequences following a Markov chain. So... let's see if we can build fun, or even (seemingly) smart bot friends!

This session will be organized as an interactive workshop/coding session. Come over, and learn yourself some F# for great good! F# beginners are very welcome - it will be a great opportunity to see F# in action, and why it's awesome.

To get the most from the session please try and bring a laptop along with F# installed (ideally either Xamarin Studio, MonoDevelop or Visual Studio); you can find detailed instructions for OSX, Linux and Windows on fsharp.org.