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So far, the majority of the samples I've fed into the analyzer have me writing like James Joyce. But there's a smattering of James Fennimore Cooper, Vladimir Nabakov, Raymond Chandler, and, yes, Dan Brown.
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I've gotten both David Foster Wallace and Stephen King with multiple writing samples. Dan Brown once.
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Chuck Palahniuk, Cory Doctorow, Ursula LeGuin, Stephen King, Edgar Allen Poe.
I don't think I have much confidence in this algorithm. Those were all forum posts. My style doesn't vary that much.
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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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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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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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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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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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quote: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.
It says I write like Cthulu. I don't know what that means ... AAAHHHH
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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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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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Sadly, I suspect they use a very simple approach to discern this. A nuanced approach could be quite interesting.
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"I'm a little teapot" got me James Joyce. And apparently so did "Stephen King" copied several times.
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It's the same algorithm (or something similar) as what gmail-type-things use to create spam filters. There was an interview about it, I'll dig it up if anyone cares.
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Every single text I entered got me a different author, except for when I fed it different pieces of the same paper. It seems like this site only analyzes diction and nothing else...
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quote:Originally posted by Nighthawk: I write like Cory Doctorow.
Apparently I do as well. At least it wasn't Stephenie Meyer.
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.
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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.
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quote: 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.
LOL! I put in a review article I wrote on Acai berry and got Margaret Atwood as well. I guess the two aren't that disimilar! =)
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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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quote: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.)
Dang!!! And here I was feeling proud of getting Shakespeare. *sigh* Can't win for losing.
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I posted a few paragraphs without dialogue from a story I've been working on and got Stephen King. Then from the same story, used only dialogue and got James Joyce.
Then I used a journal entry from two months ago and got Edgar Allen Poe.
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