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I write like...
... J.D. Salinger, apparently. I posted a "Dear Body" entry, a short blogpost, and a paragraph from a recent essay, to get a bit of variety.
To be honest, I've no idea why it thinks I write like Salinger.
What about you?
To be honest, I've no idea why it thinks I write like Salinger.
What about you?
"Only for today, I will devote 10 minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul." -- Pope John XXIII
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By complete coincidence, or not, I'm currently in a discussion about this with a *chan. Having put in large chunks of novels I've written/given up on, several short stories, and some essays, the general consensus by the program is that I write like Chuck Palahniuk.
A big deal on /v/, though, is that people are putting in chunks of famous stories and having them come out by different authors. One example is To Kill a Mockingbird comes out written by Stephen King, which I am arguing makes some sense: King tends to write about small-town, down-to-earth characters in a friendly, "talking to a real person" narrative voice. He avoid adverbs, extremely long descriptions, and enjoys focusing on character development and interaction, which sounds almost like Harper Lee, to my unsophisticated reading-ear.
Of course, I haven't read any documentation on the sophistication of the programming for "I Write Like..." so who even knows what it's doing?
A big deal on /v/, though, is that people are putting in chunks of famous stories and having them come out by different authors. One example is To Kill a Mockingbird comes out written by Stephen King, which I am arguing makes some sense: King tends to write about small-town, down-to-earth characters in a friendly, "talking to a real person" narrative voice. He avoid adverbs, extremely long descriptions, and enjoys focusing on character development and interaction, which sounds almost like Harper Lee, to my unsophisticated reading-ear.
Of course, I haven't read any documentation on the sophistication of the programming for "I Write Like..." so who even knows what it's doing?
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I put in a bunch of different texts individually and got a bunch of different authors (a talk on St. Petronella got me Kurt Vonnegut; a piece on dactylic hexameter and Latin got me Stephen King; a personal reflection got me George Orwell; a fragment of a story I've been a long time working on got me Chuck Palahniuk) and then I put them all together in that order and got H. P. Lovecraft. This strikes me as absolutely foreboding. Hilarious and foreboding.
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I plugged in everything from my last creative writing class in college (the last time I even somewhat-seriously wrote fiction; I mostly dabble, anymore), and these are the results:
H. P. Lovecraft - 5
James Joyce - 3
Stephen King - 3
William Shakespeare - 1
J. R. R. Tolkien - 1
Ray Bradbury - 1
My law journal work apparently also reads like H. P. Lovecraft for all but one article (which reads like Jonathan Swift).
H. P. Lovecraft - 5
James Joyce - 3
Stephen King - 3
William Shakespeare - 1
J. R. R. Tolkien - 1
Ray Bradbury - 1
My law journal work apparently also reads like H. P. Lovecraft for all but one article (which reads like Jonathan Swift).
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Kurt Vonnegut? who is this guy?
JohNathan Swift, now, i know this one.
Dan Brown... well, i guess that not being native speaker can do that to you.
James Joyce? am i really so hard to understand?
Edgar Allan Poe O.o
Margaret Atwood... who is she?
Well, i'll stop, this is from the posts of manly scientific truthiness, and every single post has a different style XD what means i have no style at all lol.
It is unsurprising many physics papers have the same style as either Dan Brown or Isaac Asimov, also.
Kurt Vonnegut? who is this guy?
JohNathan Swift, now, i know this one.
Dan Brown... well, i guess that not being native speaker can do that to you.
James Joyce? am i really so hard to understand?
Edgar Allan Poe O.o
Margaret Atwood... who is she?
Well, i'll stop, this is from the posts of manly scientific truthiness, and every single post has a different style XD what means i have no style at all lol.
It is unsurprising many physics papers have the same style as either Dan Brown or Isaac Asimov, also.
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In my journal I write like Dan Brown and Margaret Atwood, and Stephen King when I'm writing about my adventures.
My most recent fiction was Shakespeare, while my older stuff appears to be Joyce.
Stephen King also popped up for my Econ essay and my bio paper about AIDS.
And my report on Francis Drake: Danel DeFoe. Go figure.
My most recent fiction was Shakespeare, while my older stuff appears to be Joyce.
Stephen King also popped up for my Econ essay and my bio paper about AIDS.
And my report on Francis Drake: Danel DeFoe. Go figure.
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Kurt Vonnegut is probably best known for Slaughterhouse-Five, although I prefer his other novels.Lesee
Kurt Vonnegut? who is this guy?
JohNathan Swift, now, i know this one.
Dan Brown... well, i guess that not being native speaker can do that to you.
James Joyce? am i really so hard to understand?
Edgar Allan Poe O.o
Margaret Atwood... who is she?
Well, i'll stop, this is from the posts of manly scientific truthiness, and every single post has a different style XD what means i have no style at all lol.
It is unsurprising many physics papers have the same style as either Dan Brown or Isaac Asimov, also.
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author who won some scifi awards for The Handmaid's Tale and has written quite a few other books (I like her a lot).
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OR it's not set up to detect pranks, because what if it misinterpreted a poor writer for a pranker?I put in "No U" about a million times, and it said I write like Isaac Asimov.
This thing is worthless.
I'm not saying it isn't worthless, but experiments like yours do not convince me.
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Even if it's not set up to deal with pranks, the fact that it gives a bull answer for my lack of anything resembling a writing style - means, in my opinion, that it's not seriously analyzing and crosschecking your writing style with those of the people it says.(or maybe it is, but doing a laughable job)
It might be good for lols and laughing at how hard it fails, but otherwise its worthless.
It might be good for lols and laughing at how hard it fails, but otherwise its worthless.
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I tried a few different stories to check for algorithmic consistency. One said Dan Brown, another Agatha Christie, the longest one Stephen King, and my favorite one Douglas Adams. All of them at once says Stephen King. The first half of the Douglas Adams one results in Isaac Asimov.
I'm glad it didn't compare me to anyone I hadn't heard of, but I've never actually read anything by Stephen King... weird.
How does the algorithm work, does anyone know? My best guess is comparing frequency of word lengths. If it were comparing unique phrases or letter frequency, I doubt the "No U" repetitions would produce such consistent results. Unless Issac Asimov is just it's default fallback answer.
Hehe, it's instructions are apparently written in the style of H. P. Lovecraft.
I'm glad it didn't compare me to anyone I hadn't heard of, but I've never actually read anything by Stephen King... weird.
How does the algorithm work, does anyone know? My best guess is comparing frequency of word lengths. If it were comparing unique phrases or letter frequency, I doubt the "No U" repetitions would produce such consistent results. Unless Issac Asimov is just it's default fallback answer.
Hehe, it's instructions are apparently written in the style of H. P. Lovecraft.
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Exactly what I was thinking.
ETA: My dissertation Lit Review, Methods, and Results chapters read, overall, like Isaac Asimov. The final paragraph of the results chapter, though, reads like Nabokov (which I found amusing). The discussion, however, reads like Margaret Atwood.
ETA: My dissertation Lit Review, Methods, and Results chapters read, overall, like Isaac Asimov. The final paragraph of the results chapter, though, reads like Nabokov (which I found amusing). The discussion, however, reads like Margaret Atwood.
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There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
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There's another life out there...
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There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...
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Well, yeah, it's definitely good for lols or laughing at how hard it fails.
Reminds me of this twenty-questions game, where the computer program would ask a buch of questions and then guess what you're thinking.
It went up to 32 questions, though, and lost twice with some funny dialogue about how "This is embarassing". And I lold.
Reminds me of this twenty-questions game, where the computer program would ask a buch of questions and then guess what you're thinking.
It went up to 32 questions, though, and lost twice with some funny dialogue about how "This is embarassing". And I lold.
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Scary beyond all reason.A short, terrifying woman. Not mean (in my experience) but an intimidating soul. Her daughter is really friendly, though.Margaret Atwood... who is she?
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Sorry for the bump, but this looked fun.
The first thing I put in was my post in "Complete Randomness" about anonymous/onymous internet communities. That gave me Cory Doctorow, which makes me gag... but I suppose it makes sense given the content.
Then I put in some other post about *chans, which got me David Foster Wallace. I've never heard of him, but from a glance at wikipedia, he doesn't look much better.
Then I put in one of the less BS-y papers I wrote for a university class, which gave me Chuck Palahniuk. I think that's a lot better; I've never read anything by him, but I hear good things.
The first thing I put in was my post in "Complete Randomness" about anonymous/onymous internet communities. That gave me Cory Doctorow, which makes me gag... but I suppose it makes sense given the content.
Then I put in some other post about *chans, which got me David Foster Wallace. I've never heard of him, but from a glance at wikipedia, he doesn't look much better.
Then I put in one of the less BS-y papers I wrote for a university class, which gave me Chuck Palahniuk. I think that's a lot better; I've never read anything by him, but I hear good things.
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