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Posted: 18th July 2010 17:21
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Here's something that's quite fun. I Write Like is a calculator that determines which author your writing is closest to. I pasted some in, getting results from Ian Fleming (who I've never read) to Cory Doctorow (who I've never heard of before now).
If anyone fancies trying it out here's the link: http://iwl.me/ -------------------- Scepticism, that dry rot of the intellect, had not left one entire idea in his mind. Me on the Starcraft. |
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Posted: 18th July 2010 18:34
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I put my old, terrible fanfic into the analyzer and it gave me Stephen King, so take THAT, Stephen King.
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Posted: 18th July 2010 22:23
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Pretty neat, but I would like to know how they coming up with this.
Just for s&g's I put my own fanfics in got Edgar Allen Poe (for Afterstorm) and Dan Brown (for the prequel). Huh... Also rated my senior research paper as HP Lovecraft. That is completely awesome, but I don't know where it came from. This post has been edited by Sherick on 18th July 2010 22:26 -------------------- I fear my heart and fear my soul Life goes on, it surely will, Without me and I wonder: Will I ever see light again? Life goes on... |
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Posted: 18th July 2010 22:58
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I also got Cory Doctorow based on combining three news posts that I have written in the last month. I don't really write enough otherwise to put together a sample.
I suppose I would benefit more from a "who do you write code like" tool.  -------------------- "To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN? |
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Posted: 18th July 2010 23:02
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I got L. Frank Baum for a story I've been writing for a game I might make.
I got Cory Doctorow three times; for fan-fiction, a regular short story, and some homework. -------------------- |
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Posted: 19th July 2010 00:21
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My spin-off Thundercats fanfic resulted in Cory Doctorow.
My post-game FFVI fanfic (in the site submissions forum) got Edgar Allan Poe. These results were gathered using only the latest chapter of each fanfic. |
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Posted: 19th July 2010 00:52
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I put in some old essays, got Cory Doctorow once and J.K. Rowling once.
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Posted: 19th July 2010 01:20
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Based on some paragraphs stolen from one of the short stories I've tinkered around with, I apparently write like Mark Twain.
I wonder what different authors the program has to choose from? -------------------- Currently Playing : Final Fantasy V Most Recently Beat : Elder Scrolls: Skyrim Favorite Game : Final Fantasy X The newest CoNcast is up! Have a listen! |
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Posted: 19th July 2010 02:44
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typing "I will shotgun-f*** you until you die, you lying taco-vacuum." means i write like Ernest Hemingway. cool beans.
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Posted: 19th July 2010 03:24
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Posted: 19th July 2010 03:28
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Quote typing "I will shotgun-f*** you until you die, you lying taco-vacuum." means i write like Ernest Hemingway. cool beans. LOL I wonder if this thing takes errors and slang into account. Try words from another language and see what comes up... On that note I typed in a line from one of my fanfic's OC, a line riddled with grammar errors. "I here from Coporal order. Oops that I'm did no realize you fall." When I asked for analysis on this wonderful piece articulation, I got Stephanie Meyer.  This post has been edited by Frozen_Aura on 19th July 2010 03:29 |
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Posted: 19th July 2010 03:32
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Quote (Frozen_Aura @ 18th July 2010 20:28) When I asked for analysis on this wonderful piece articulation, I got Stephanie Meyer. LMAO That's awesome. In my opinion, that line is BETTER than that hack. -------------------- |
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Posted: 19th July 2010 07:25
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I posted an email I wrote to a friend and got James Joyce. This is cool and all, but I think it must be random. I decided to try again, drawing a goldfish out of e's and 2's, and got William Shakespeare. <-<
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Posted: 19th July 2010 07:29
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Quote (Frozen_Aura @ 19th July 2010 04:28) "I here from Coporal order. Oops that I'm did no realize you fall." When I asked for analysis on this wonderful piece articulation, I got Stephanie Meyer. That's pretty funny.  Quote (Rangers51 @ 18th July 2010 23:58) I suppose I would benefit more from a "who do you write code like" tool. I'm no expert but I'd say you code most like Cory Doctorow. Quote (Sherick @ 18th July 2010 23:23) Pretty neat, but I would like to know how they coming up with this. Just for s&g's I put my own fanfics in got Edgar Allen Poe (for Afterstorm) and Dan Brown (for the prequel). Huh... Also rated my senior research paper as HP Lovecraft. That is completely awesome, but I don't know where it came from. I probably should've added a bit more. There's a post that explains it. Quote Actually, the algorithm is not a rocket science, and you can find it on every computer today. It’s a Bayesian classifier, which is widely used to fight spam on the Internet. Take for example the “Mark as spam” button in Gmail or Outlook. When you receive a message that you think is spam, you click this button, and the internal database gets trained to recognize future messages similar to this one as spam. This is basically how “I Write Like” works on my side: I feed it with “Frankenstein” and tell it, “This is Mary Shelley. Recognize works similar to this as Mary Shelley.” Of course, the algorithm is slightly different from the one used to detect spam, because it takes into account more stylistic features of the text, such as the number of words in sentences, the number of commas, semicolons, and whether the sentence is a direct speech or a quotation. Either that or a Cory Doctorow publicity generating Bayesian algorithm that detects writing and produces Cory Doctorow. This post has been edited by sweetdude on 19th July 2010 07:32 -------------------- Scepticism, that dry rot of the intellect, had not left one entire idea in his mind. Me on the Starcraft. |
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Posted: 19th July 2010 12:19
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This seems to be making some headlines
And apparently, Herman Melville writes like Stephen King. Go figure! This post has been edited by BlitzSage on 19th July 2010 12:19 -------------------- |
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Posted: 19th July 2010 17:23
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Using various bits of text I have written, I got: James Joyce, H.P Lovecraft (twice), Arthur C. Clarke, David Foster Wallace, H. G. Wells, and J. K. Rowling.
I'm thinking it picks up on keywords and then maybe a basic grammar/spell check or vice versa. -------------------- "Only the dead have seen the end of their quotes being misattributed to Plato." -George Santayana "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here..." -Abraham Lincoln, prior to the discovery of Irony. |
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Posted: 19th July 2010 23:38
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Quote (Narratorway @ 18th July 2010 19:24) I think it's just giving random answers. Stephen King Neil Gaiman H. P. freaking Lovecraft William Shakespeare!? Yeah, this is B.S. This. Using various pieces of mine, I've come up with H.P. Lovecraft and James Joyce, with all of them at the same time yielding Chuck Palahniuk. |
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Posted: 20th July 2010 07:21
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I got James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov and J.K. Rowling for different parts of one story I write. Sounds good to me.
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Posted: 21st July 2010 21:13
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I got James Joyce for a letter that I wrote and David Foster Wallace for some blogging and a few essays. I suppose my writing is consistent until I'm writing a letter! Haha!
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Posted: 24th August 2010 15:16
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I pasted in an excerpt from a story I'm working on and got J.D. Salinger as my result. I thought that was cool.
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Posted: 24th August 2010 18:08
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" Ek wil nou 'n hond wat blaf he. Dit moet baie gelukig wees."
This both badly spelt and in Afrikaans which only two countries in the world speak. Apparently James Joyce is either South African or Namibian and badly versed in Afrikaans. Also it isn't random because just inputting the same line of text gets you the same answer 3 times in a row. "I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day." Also James Joyce writes like Vladmir Nabokov which sort of explains the Afrikaans thing since both cultures are stereotypically Large Angry Men who shoot things and Very Sexy Ladies who may or may not be for sale "1/2 ab sinC 1/2 (12)(12) sin80=70.9" The William Shakespeare Quote no one ever knew about. I should probably give this thing a rest now but one last one shouldn't hurt anyone. "qaz wsx edcv rfv tgb yhn ujm ik ol p qwertyuiop asdfghjkl zxcvbnm" Stephen King at his finest! I love this thing! This post has been edited by R8.50 Mango on 24th August 2010 18:31 -------------------- Since I advertise CoN there I think it's only fair that I advertise The Wiki here. |
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Posted: 24th August 2010 19:10
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One of my poems came up like Lovecraft...the best day of my life! Then I put up a short story and it said Cory Doctorow...easily, the worst day of my life.
I need to refine my technique, yeesh... -------------------- "If art doesn't risk upsetting expectations and challenging its audience, it can only stagnate." |
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Posted: 24th August 2010 19:30
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Well, R8.50 Mango, its problem is partly that it doesn't have a None of the Above option that works competently.
After all, how would you do that? Also, it might be nicer if it did a sort of "X% like [writer]" score, than just giving you a score. In other news, Shakespeare was a secret mathematical genius. ~~~~ By the way: Similarly useless but amusing tool: http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php This post has been edited by Glenn Magus Harvey on 24th August 2010 19:32 -------------------- Check the "What games are you playing at the moment?" thread for updates on what I've been playing. You can find me on the Fediverse! I use Mastodon, where I am @[email protected] ( https://sakurajima.moe/@glennmagusharvey ) |
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Posted: 24th August 2010 19:48
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this thing is a crock. i wrote a paragraph that i came up with at the top of my head and it gave me James Joyce. I changed ONE WORD (unto - onto) and i got J. K. Rowling.
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Posted: 24th August 2010 19:48
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"Gurgley fwurgle, lurgle shmadurgle" gets me HP Lovecraft. I get it, it's Cthulhu-speak!
Interesting, just typing in "Cthulhu Cthulhu Cthulhu Cthulhu" says I write like Jonathan Swift. Go figure. -------------------- Squenix games completed: FFIII FFIV FFVI FFVII FFIX FFX FF Tactics: Advance 2 Chrono Trigger Dragon Quest 8 Dragon Quest 11 Super Mario RPG |
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Posted: 25th August 2010 16:58
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Just tried that Gender Genie tool, using an excerpt from the same story that yielded the Salinger result. Even though my narrator is a man, it still figured out that I'm female. (I did have a fairly high masculine percentage, but the feminine was just a little higher and won out.) Apparently, words like if, when, and should are "feminine," and words like above, below, and around are "masculine." Who knew?
 On a different note, I pasted a passage from a different story on I Write Like.... and got Chuck Palahniuk. I guess that's to be expected, since this story had a different narrator. Still thought it was a cool result, though. |
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