The Glade 4.0

I put in my review of Alice in Wonderland, and got Lewis Carroll (and only Lewis Carrol). LOL.

As she said thoughtfully to herself, `whenever I eat one of the
tribe of Juda, the Root of David, he that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit of God was opened in heaven, and devoured them.

And he discerned him not, because his hands through his hair--
And chanted in mimsiest tones
Words whose utter inanity proved his insanity,
While he served
them: and I will give him
glory.

And Jacob was a long way. Did you go
on turning round like that.'

`Didn't you hear the words:--

`I speak severely to my couch.

`So much obliged!' added Tweedledee. `You like poetry?'

`Ye-es. pretty well -- SOME poetry,' Alice said to herself
`Suppose it should be arrayed in fine linen, white and clean.

And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe.

Quite frankly, your mastery of the English language is insufficient for that comparison. And, since you apparently have little understanding of Nabokov or his linguistic and literary skills, I find it rather ironic. As it stands, Lolita is the definitive American Romance; and it was written in English by Nabokov while he lived in the United States.

That said, the comparison mechanism is only keying in on the frequency of 10-15 words per sample set, as opposed to comparing morphological similarities in the language used. I would not put too much stock in anything.

I posted my own writings and got Chuck Palahniuk. I posted a sample of Palahniuk's "Guts" and got Corey Doctorow. I posted some of Doctorow's works and got Stephen King. I posted a sample from "It" and got Chuck Palahniuk.

Put in "Lorem ipsum ...", got back James Joyce.

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.

Khross sorta was getting at this before, but it's not that this is inaccurate so much as it compares very little.

Here is a bit of a quote from the author on how it works, from http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/a-qa-with ... et-science



Even if it had great depth, one paragraph alone probably isn't going to give good results no matter what.

Edit: I wonder what they are doing with all of the submitted text?

Arafys is a turd. He thinks he is a Moose. I have only ever called him Arafys, and maybe Moose once or twice, but I have not once referred to him by the pretentious handle that he has currently chosen for himself. Arafys. The original Moose turd. Totally.

Wow. You managed to insult my writing skills--(based on no actual data other than what I post hastily, and somewhat carelessly, often from a mobile phone??)

You've not seen anything I've written with a significant degree of care to have any basis for that statement, and we don't all go out of our way to sound as pretentious and condecending as possible in everything we write. If you were as literate as you claim, you would understand that a good writer makes stylistic choices as to the words they use for effect, not because they know no other way.

I write the way I write here, because of a shared sense of style the board tends to adapt, not because I am incapable of writing in any other fashion.