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Originally posted by Samprimary:
http://whatawonderful.tumblr.com/post/820508648/i-write-like-science

also of interest:

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-write-white.html

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I wonder if the thing would indeed get more accurate with a larger list of authors. Right now it's fun but pretty much useless.
 

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Posted by Cor (Member # 4295) on :
 
Someone I know tested out a theory. Seems if you type in "magic" over and over, you get Rowling, and if you type "horror" or something like that, you get King.

It's a fun gimmick, but I also heard that it's being funded or at least used as a promotion for a self-publisher of questionable reputation.
 

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Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
 
More importantly, it's not accurate unless you put in some crappy writing and get "The kid that sat next to me in kindergarten and ate the paste."
 

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Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
 
Not "accurate," then. "Representative"?

I wonder why this thing went viral. NPR even did a piece on it.
 

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Posted by Baron Samedi (Member # 9175) on :
 
I did "robot robot robot robot..." and got Isaac Asimov. I did the first few stanzas of The Jabberwocky and got Lewis Carroll. So I guess that's OK.

I then gave the program a few brief, profane suggestions for what it could go do with itself, and it told me I wrote like Jonathan Swift. I guess all these years I was missing the point of Gulliver's Travels.
 

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Posted by Baron Samedi (Member # 9175) on :
 
I put a few of Sarah Palin's tweets in there, and it says she writes like William Shakespeare. So I guess we all owe someone an apology.

(Actually, I copied and pasted Moroni Chapter 10, and it came back as Shakespeare. But it's surely all the "cometh" and "denieth" and such.)
 

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Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
 
I write like Cory Doctorow.

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Wait... What?
 

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Posted by Baron Samedi (Member # 9175) on :
 
I thought I'd try for Steven King, so I entered the following text:

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blood guts artery spurt blood murder kill death tear out disembowel dismember cut into pieces slash with a knife and spray with blood.

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Originally posted by advice for robots:
I wonder if the thing would indeed get more accurate with a larger list of authors. Right now it's fun but pretty much useless.

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Originally posted by Samprimary:
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you write like the matrix?
 

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Posted by Wingracer (Member # 12293) on :
 
It tells me Anne Rice. Not sure why, maybe because the character's name is Anna, haha.

One problem, I have never read an Anne Rice novel. Now I want to just to see if I do write like her but I'm vampired out.
 

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Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
 
Turns out that is a viral marketing campaign for a self publishing company.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
I apparently write like:
David Foster Wallace
Kurt Vonnegut (got this result twice, on completely unrelated samples)
Cory Doctorow
Ursula K. Le Guin
 

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Posted by Godric (Member # 4587) on :
 

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Originally posted by Nighthawk:
I write like Cory Doctorow.

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Originally posted by PSI Teleport:
Baron, according to this article, Margaret Atwood got Stephen King when she tried it.

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That is classic.
 

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Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
 
Presumably they're using naive bayes with the term frequencies (possibly including n-grams).
 

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Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
 

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Originally posted by Raymond Arnold:
Doesn't diction refer to actually "speaking?"

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Originally posted by Godric:

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Originally posted by Nighthawk:
I write like Cory Doctorow.

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Apparently I do as well. At least it wasn't Stephenie Meyer.

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Don't worry about it, I typed a bunch of excerpts from Ender's Game into the reader, and it came out as Cory Doctorow. I guess we should all migrate over to Mr. Doctorow's forum if Mr. Card ever kicks the bucket.

edit: I also typed, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" over and over but I got P. G. Wodehouse not Steven King.

second edit: Apparently I'm not the first to try the latter experiment.

[ July 21, 2010, 04:22 AM: Message edited by: BlackBlade ]
 

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Posted by Mr. Y (Member # 11590) on :
 
Based on only one sample (one of my recent posts) I apparently write like P.G. Wodehouse.

Another sample, which consisted of several short posts (all from the same thread) informed me that I write like Stephen King.

To get some level of certainty in the outcome I checked the above sentences as well; P.G. Wodehouse again... Perhaps I should try to read some of his work.

And checking an e-mail message I just wrote for work I got the following outcome: Stephenie Meyer.

[ July 21, 2010, 06:02 AM: Message edited by: Mr. Y ]
 

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Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
 

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I also typed, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" over and over but I got P. G. Wodehouse not Steven King.

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I thought I'd try for Steven King, so I entered the following text:

quote:blood guts artery spurt blood murder kill death tear out disembowel dismember cut into pieces slash with a knife and spray with blood.

It gave me Margaret Atwood. So much for that.

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Originally posted by Mr. Y:

And checking an e-mail message I just wrote for work I got the following outcome: Stephenie Meyer.

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Posted by Herblay (Member # 11834) on :
 
An article I wrote for the company newsletter came out as William Shakespeare. Passages from the YA novel I'm working were rated as Stephen King.
 

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Posted by Flaming Toad on a Stick (Member # 9302) on :
 
Forum post looked like Cory Doctorow.

Random keyboard mashing looked like David Foster Wallace.

Huh.
 

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Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
 
http://lamrot-hakol.blogspot.com/2010/07/who-do-i-write-like.html
 

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Posted by T:man (Member # 11614) on :
 
Mario Puzo?
 

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Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
 
Right?
 

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Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
 

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Originally posted by Baron Samedi:
I put a few of Sarah Palin's tweets in there, and it says she writes like William Shakespeare. So I guess we all owe someone an apology.

(Actually, I copied and pasted Moroni Chapter 10, and it came back as Shakespeare. But it's surely all the "cometh" and "denieth" and such.)

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