Generating Text with RNNs in 4 Lines of Code

Generating text is one of those projects that seems like a lot of fun to machine learning and NLP beginners, but one which is also pretty daunting. Or, at least it was for me. Thankfully, there are all sorts of great materials online for learning how RNNs can be used for generating text, ranging from the theoretical to the technically in-depth to those decidedly focused on the practical. There are also some very good posts which cover it all and are now considered canon in this space. All of these materials share one thing in particular: at some point along the way, you have to build and tune an RNN to do the work.