First off, if you don't know what a Markov chain is, this won't make much sense to you. It'll still make some sense, I suppose, but it's mostly nonsense of a fancy, computery sort. Advanced nonsense. The Markov chain you're most likely to be familiar with is a phone's autocomplete guessing at what the next word you're going to type will be, and we all know how great THAT is.
Secondly, if you don't know what Calvin and Hobbes is, this will make even less sense to you than the poor fool who isn't hep to the latest stochastic models. Probably if you think they're John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes this will make slightly more sense than if you think they're Calvin Kline and his secret nickname for Lorraine Baines, but the point is that this doesn't work without some basic background in both statistics and comics of the late 80s/early 90s.
On the plus side, if you don't know who Calvin and Hobbes are you have some wonderful reading ahead of you and if you don't know what Markov chains are you have some math ahead of you, which I can only assume is your personal favourite pastime or you'd have just clicked on the link already to see the comics.
Anyway, some dude tried Markov chains with Calvin and Hobbes, and the results are ... well, see for yourself.
10/10.
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