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 dumb word association sentences
 
 generates a weighted map of immediate word assocations from a given source file, then generatesd a sentence given a prompt word and a length.
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+the given source, `hpmor.txt`, was pilfered from the repository [HPMOR_NLP](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jozdien/HPMOR_NLP/master/hpmor.txt). the _original_ source is Eliezer Yudkowsky, and the story can be read in full at [hpmor.com](https://hpmor.com).