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Consider doing some language processing using the excellent NLTK library: http://www.nltk.org/

It wasn't on the lists of "wants", but implementing the Raft consensus protocol could be neat too. It was designed to be understandable and implementable. The video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbZ3zDzDnrw. The research paper is here: https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/1137...

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looks ambitious, I'll have a look at it in a bit

For the NLTK idea, I think you can get a long way by adapting one of the examples from the (free) book: http://www.nltk.org/book_1ed/

Raft is conceptually deep, but code wise isn't actually that hard to do. However, it gives you a beautiful introduction to consensus algorithms which appear in many distributed systems.

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