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Postby **t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư** » 2010.07.16 (10:19)

SlappyMcGee wrote:Do you read the AV Club, Tsukatu?

Nope.

http://nmaps.net/user/geti · Postby **Geti** » 2010.07.16 (11:18)

Techno wrote:Flawed system is fail.

Oh come on, it's for fun and wasting time on the internet, not serious analysis or whatever.

http://nmaps.net/user/rennaT · Postby **Tanner** » 2010.07.16 (13:42)

I got Stephen King which is total BS.

Postby **SlappyMcGee** » 2010.07.16 (16:37)

Tsukatu wrote:
SlappyMcGee wrote:Do you read the AV Club, Tsukatu?
Nope.

AH. You posted this at almost the exact same moment they did.

Postby **t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư** » 2010.07.16 (19:54)

SlappyMcGee wrote:
Tsukatu wrote:
SlappyMcGee wrote:Do you read the AV Club, Tsukatu?
Nope.
AH. You posted this at almost the exact same moment they did.

I heard about it at work, because the process of identifying the author you're most like is relevant to the projects my lab works on. I wouldn't be surprised if the student who sent the email around read about it in the AV Club.

http://nmaps.net/user/guy_zap · Postby **fawk** » 2010.07.16 (21:31)

David Foster Wallace.

Postby **otters~1** » 2010.07.16 (22:13)

Inspired wrote:formally I write like Kurt Vonnegut.

Bahahahaha.

EDIT: Lovecraft. I was writing a factual paper about the fucking /Okefenokee Swamp/.

http://nmaps.net/user/yungerkid · Postby **yungerkid** » 2010.07.17 (04:48)

I don't know exactly who Dan Brown is, but I was not under the impression that he primarily wrote in highly structured and syllogistic logical arguments, which was what I submitted (a debate with a friend). Kind of weird. Wasn't he the one that wrote the Da Vinci Code?

Just submitted one of my reviews from numa, and got J.K. Rowling. Ack!

http://nmaps.net/user/ · Postby **noops** » 2010.07.17 (14:09)

hairscapades wrote:I got Stephen King which is total BS.

this

http://nmaps.net/user/rennaT · Postby **Tanner** » 2010.07.17 (15:21)

yungerkid wrote:I don't know exactly who Dan Brown is, but I was not under the impression that he primarily wrote in highly structured and syllogistic logical arguments, which was what I submitted (a debate with a friend). Kind of weird. Wasn't he the one that wrote the Da Vinci Code?

Just submitted one of my reviews from numa, and got J.K. Rowling. Ack!

I just submitted this post and got the author of the comic Cathy. Ack!

http://nmaps.net/user/maestro · Postby **乳头的早餐谷物** » 2010.07.17 (15:27)

I just submitted this post and got Agatha Christie.

Postby **otters~1** » 2010.07.17 (16:46)

I submitted a review of mine with about thirty commas and got Mary Shelley. Next I'm going to try copying Joyce and see how close I get.

EDIT: Just asked my dad something about David Foster Wallace and got: "Killed himself because he was such a terrible writer."

http://nmaps.net/user/scythe33 · Postby **scythe** » 2010.07.17 (21:02)

Edgar Allen Poe, apparently. No shit. I submitted a ~1300 word paper I wrote a few years ago.

Postby **blackson** » 2010.07.17 (22:33)

Like everyone else, David Foster Wallace.

http://nmaps.net/user/maxson924 · Postby **Rose** » 2010.07.18 (00:18)

Yahoozy wrote:Submitted some nonfiction and two poems. Got Vladimir Nabokov, Margaret Atwood and David Foster Wallace.

This website is an ego-buffer.

EDIT: As an experiment, I submitted, "fuck fuck shit beer beer alcohol prostitute fuck," but got William Gibson instead of Bukowski. Alright then.

I put in this post and got Vladimir Nabokov. I then tried posting the same thing again and it came up with... Vladimir Nabokov. Awwww. So even though its system sucks, at least it has one that's consistent.

http://nmaps.net/user/NachoCheese · Postby **NachoCheese** » 2010.07.18 (02:01)

Put this in:

The program is pathetic. Not only does it have numerous flaws, the fact "which famous writer you write like " is highlighted is crap. First, adding an extra word, even if it is the same word, gives you a different author. Second, a three-year-old, according to this site, writes like Douglas Adams. That's an insult. Third, something one of these famous author wrote comes up as an entirely different author. And fourth, its sexist. Case closed. Meh.

Got James Joyce.

Put this in...

The program is pathetic. Not only does it have numerous flaws, the fact "which famous writer you write like " is highlighted is crap. First, adding an extra word, even if it is the same word, gives you a different author. Second, a three-year-old, according to this site, writes like Douglas Adams. That's an insult. Third, something one of these famous author wrote comes up as an entirely different author. And fourth, its sexist. Case closed.

Got H. P. Lovecraft

Timewaster...
This link is a good read, regardless...http://www.codingrobots.com/blog/2010/0 ... rite-like/

http://nmaps.net/user/eternal_moonlight · Postby **moonlight** » 2010.07.20 (02:27)

Finally got a paper I could put in from school.

I got H.P Lovecraft. Nice.

Postby **t̷s͢uk̕a͡t͜ư** » 2010.07.20 (18:09)

Ran across something relevant just now:

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/ar ... 12497.html

It seems to make sense. That's what I was afraid it was doing.

http://nmaps.net/user/maestro · Postby **乳头的早餐谷物** » 2010.07.21 (15:42)

Tsukatu wrote:Ran across something relevant just now:

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/ar ... 12497.html

It seems to make sense. That's what I was afraid it was doing.

http://www.theawl.com/2010/07/a-qa-with ... et-science

Edit: Ugh. Reading through the blogosphere's reaction to this site is making me angry. At them. Of course a web tool that analyses a couple of paragraphs and compares it to a small selection of famous authors isn't going to be anything more than a curiosity. What the fuck is wrong with you?

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