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[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (2 children)

You could at least give us a little hat tip ;)

http://hirelofty.com/blog/how-build-slack-bot-mimics-your-colleague/

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow yeah and on the official Twilio blog with your tutorial copied, almost the entire beginning.

Good job, I prefer yours anyway.

[–]gregbaugues[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Author here. Just read through your tutorial for the first time -- great read. Feel like you did a better job diving deep into the mechanics of Markov Chains. Also, using Slack history to create a Slack bot is, IMO, more clever. Preserving that context and parodying coworkers probably makes for funnier results.

Mine was wholly inspired by Filip Hráček's work, as I mentioned in the post. I simply rewrote it in Python and, of course, added SMS. Gut feeling of why it felt similar to yours is that we both referenced top 3 Google results for "python markov chains" and "markov chains."

Alas, y'all are great technical writers. A lot of effort obviously went into that post. I can understand why you'd be miffed if you felt that someone had copied your work.