This was a simple project to learn React.js, a library for building functional web applications. The goal of Connoisseur is to generate either hilarious or believable notes about a food or beverage, using text from a particular author to flavor the verbage. I used a poor man's Markov Chain to do the generation. Some notes end up hilarious, while others are just gibberish. There is also support for adding your own persona or tasting subject!

A demo is available here.

This repository is not very polished, not up to date, and not actively developed.

src contains source javascript files.

dist contains the runnable site. For now, track it in github and edit things like index.html there. May make sense in the future to have an index that is copied in.

1. Derive stats about average sentence length, use in generation
2. Multiple personas
3. With #2, parameters for weighting them
4. order configurable
5. speed up, separate out crappy markov chain
6. make persona optional

• sentence length is hardcoded and random (sucks)
• sentence ends are naively detected via punctuation at the end of the word, would fail on things like M.D. or Mr.
• disallow uploading multiple corpora of the same name