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What would I say?: The Facebook App that generates statuses so you don't have to

Ever wished you could instantly pop up on Facebook as your usual funny, inspirational and urbane self without the bother of actually coming up with the words? A team in the US has invented a new app which, thankfully, takes all the work out of posting a status on the social media site. It works by accessing every previous post a user has ever done, mixing them all up and then regurgitating bits of them in an order that (roughly) makes sense. And it has the dubious added bonus of sounding just like you or at least how you come across to other Facebook users. What would I say? is the brainchild of a team of techies who got together for the Hack Princeton 2013 hackathon even over the weekend, a place where computer hardware and software developers meet to work on real-life, practical projects. Technically speaking, the experts said of their app, it trains a Markov Bot based on mixture model of bigram and unigram probabilities derived from your past post history. They also reass...