MB-01

MB-01 (or Moby for short) might one day be a cool IRCbot by Screwtape.

1. Take a botbase like dagny
2. Add a Markov Chaining engine like this
3. Mix together thoroughly with Python magic.. and presto!

MB-01!

I'm very impressed with dagny - it's largely the shell of an IRC bot, with the ability to plug in arbitary event handlers, that trigger then the bot gets a message that matches your specified regexp.

An infobot-style bot is a simple application of a regexp that matches "is" and "are" and whatever comes before and after them.

For the Markov chainer, I'd like to store each word along with the people who used it, and maybe the channel where it was used - so you can get an entirely random Markov chain, or a Markov chain that imitates the style of a particular person.

See also:

• /Implementation
• /Competitors

After some consideration, I *don't* need an SQL backend for an infobot. I probably don't even need a DBM backend. I can make do with a text-file of comma-separated values, I bet. The only three columns I need are "previous word", "next word", and "author".

To find the first word of a chain from all #afda users, I'd do the equivalent of a statement like this:

select NextWord from Markov where PrevWord='';

Then I get a list of words, pick one a random (say, "jordanb:"), and then run:

select NextWord from Markov where PrevWord='jordanb:';

Lather, rinse, repeat.

For a markov based on a particular person, something like the following:

select NextWord from Markov where PrevWord='' and Author='Screwtape';

I stop, of course, when NextWord is empty.