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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: kgbsquirrel on September 29, 2010, 09:24:50 PM
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Interesting little website. You punch in a bit of your own writing and it compares it to other popular writers and tells you who it most closely matches. I'm apparently most closely mirroring Lovecraft and to a lesser extent Poe.
http://iwl.me/
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I'm apparently most closely mirroring Lovecraft and to a lesser extent Poe.
Well, that's a little unsettling.
=)
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I ended up with Kurt Vonnegut. I read most all of his books in high school and into college so it could make sense.
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I did this one or one like it once before...
It said I wrote like Ursula Leguin =|
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Well, that's a little unsettling.
=)
Isn't it? The darned thing is, I've never actually read any Lovecraft.
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I tried several different pieces. The three legal ones I tried resulted in Lovecraft. The non-legal ones--my fb notes--came back as: Cory Doctorow, HP Lovecraft, Stephen King, and David Foster Wallace.
I have not read anything written by any of these authors.
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I write like
David Foster Wallace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foster_Wallace
I had to look him up.
I'm satisfied.
stay safe.
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Isn't it? The darned thing is, I've never actually read any Lovecraft.
Could be worse.
Could have been Ursula.
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I just pasted 2 paragraphs from Slaughterhouse 5 into it and it thinks Kurt writes like Arthur Clarke ???
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Dan Brown.
*expletive deleted*ck. Where's my gun?
No, I can't, I have a wife... kids who need me. :'(
Dammit. Dan Brown?
Yeah. Let's get the gun... :mad:
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I'm apparently most closely mirroring Lovecraft and to a lesser extent Poe.
Knowing you for the length of time that I have, this information does not surprise me. At all. :laugh:
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Heh.
I entered "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" and it came back with Raymond Chandler.
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Stephen King for moi. Never read him... but if he writes like me:
It's dashed difficult to look debonair with two q-tips sticking out of your nose. Believe me, I've tried.
Then he's clearly worth looking into.
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Something I've found is it will change if you put in more of what you write, a few paragraphs from me gave the answer of Poe, a few pages worth, Lovecraft each time, even if it was different stuff I've done. Larger sampling would presumably be better in this case.
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Okay, put a third para in there - and I'm Chuck Palahniuk.
The characters in Palahniuk's stories often break into philosophical asides (either by the narrator to the reader, or spoken to the narrator through dialogue), offering numerous odd theories and opinions, often misanthropic or darkly absurdist in nature
Okay. I do that. Trying more for a P.G. Wodehouse does pulp fiction, though.
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
And, David Foster Wallace (whoever he was).
And Kurt Vonnegut, and James Joyce.
Depending on what snippets I drop in.
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Isn't it? The darned thing is, I've never actually read any Lovecraft.
Could be worse.
Could have been Ursula.
Ursula Lovecraft?
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Isaac Asimov or Cory Doctorow.
Who the hell is Cory Doctorow?
And by the way, if I submit "Who the hell is Cory Doctorow?" I get back "Cory Doctorow"
If I submit "Who the hell is Ernest Hemingway" I get Ernest Hemingway.
if I submit "Who the hell is Earnest Hemmingway?" <sic> I get Bram Stoker.
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According to this sight Niccolo Machiavelli writes like James Fenimore Cooper. ??? [tinfoil] =|
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Plugged in some of my stuff from here and Facebook:
Tuesday's at Chemo - William Gibson (Who ?)
Stupid Lieutenant Tricks - Harry Harrison (Who ?)
The Last Three Years - Margaret Atwood (Heard of her, but couldn't say what she wrote)
We're Doomed-id - Mario Puzo
Diversity Day - Kurt Vonnegut
I only recognize Puzo (never read anything by him, I'm not a Mafia book or movie fan) and Vonnegut.
After going back and wiki'ing the authors I didn't recognize, all except Puzo do science fiction, I wonder what that means......
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Hm. Apparently one of my American-History class responses, from a 2003 college class, smacks of Lovecraft.
I see a pattern here.
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I write like ... Mario Puzo?
Who ... or what ... is Mario Puzo?
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Made-up as a test out of the deep nooks of my cortex:
"The tumptubbing of the beer barrels bouncing down the ramp in the morning sun smudged the sound of the garbage trucks hoisting their trash high then depositing the offal in its innards."
Stephen King
"The tumptubbing of the beer barrels bouncing down the ramp in the morning sun formed a couterpoint to the sweet chirping of the birds."
James Joyce
"The sweet chirping of the birds formed a counterpoint to the tumptubbing of the beer barrels bouncing down the ramp."
James Joyce again. I'll bet it was the tumptubbing. I remember reading something like that in "Ulysses."
"The gun flew out of his hand when my big .45 bucked and the slug hit him in the guts, where it would hurt."
Stephen King again. I was shooting trying for Mickey Spillane.
"Made-up as a test out of the deep nooks of my cortex."
Ursula K. Le Guin Never read her. Hmmm... "Made-up" = "makeup?"
Feh.
Terry, 230RN
Footnotelike:
Grins galore
http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/
The "It was a dark and stormy night" worst novel beginnings contest. Looking over some of my junk, I get embarrassed.
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Heh.
I entered "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" and it came back with Raymond Chandler.
I got Chandler with a couple of my own paragraphs. Generally admire spare prose, but I doubt Chandler would have seen the similarity.
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I think the thing is FOS =D
I gave it a big sample of Louis L'Amour and it came back with Margaret Mitchell.
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Lovecraft
I don't recall ever using the word "eldritch".
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I pasted in Psalm 1 from the KJV and it came back "James Fenimore Cooper".
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I gave it several excerpts from Heinlein, from Stranger in a Strange Land and The moon is a Harsh Mistress. It came up with Arthur Clark, H.G. Wells, Harry Harrison and Shakespeare.
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I write like ... Mario Puzo?
Who ... or what ... is Mario Puzo?
He wrote the books the Godfather movies are based off of.
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I plugged in several samples of my writing, from forum posts to lengthy letters, and most of the time it came back with Cory Doctorow. (I got an Agatha Christie once. ;/ )
Who the heck is Cory Doctorow? ???
Wikipedia starts off by stating he was born in Toronto, Canada to Trotskyist teachers, and was raised in a "Jewish activist" household. He also became involved in the nuclear disarmament movement and was a Greenpeace campaigner as a child. Now he blogs and writes science fiction.
I'm a science fiction fan, but I never heard of him until now. From the way his Wiki bio starts off, we don't have much in common . . .
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Based on my own analysis:
HankB, you write like Paris Hilton. RoadKingLarry reminds one of E.J. Dionne and lee n. field writes like early Steve LaHay. Hawkmoon is almost indistinguishable from Molly Ivins, and Tommy Gunn is Barack Obama, all the way.
:P
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RoadKingLarry:
"I gave it a big sample of Louis L'Amour and it came back with Margaret Mitchell."
Not much actual information as to how it works in this test, but I figured I'd post it and save someone else the trouble:
Gone with the wind selection 1:
As he lounged up the walk, hand on holster, beady little eyes
glancing to right and left, a kaleidoscope of jumbled pictures spun
in her mind, stories Aunt Pittypat had whispered of attacks on
unprotected women, throat cuttings, houses burned over the heads of
dying women, children bayoneted because they cried, all of the
unspeakable horrors that lay bound up in the name of "Yankee."
Margaret Mitchell --got it!
Gone with the wind selection 2 (The very next paragraph):
Her first terrified impulse was to hide in the closet, crawl under
the bed, fly down the back stairs and run screaming to the swamp,
anything to escape him. Then she heard his cautious feet on the
front steps and his stealthy tread as he entered the hall and she
knew that escape was cut off. Too cold with fear to move, she
heard his progress from room to room downstairs, his steps growing
louder and bolder as he discovered no one. Now he was in the
dining room and in a moment he would walk out into the kitchen.
Got it again! (Margaret Mitchell)
Short selection from a later paragraph:
Quickly and noiselessly, she ran into the
upper hall and down the stairs, steadying herself on the banisters
with one hand and holding the pistol close to her thigh in the
folds of her skirt.
Got it again.
Gonna try to fool it with subject matter. One sentence, a few paragraphs later, when she shoots the intruder:
Like lightning, she shoved her weapon over the banisters and into
the startled bearded face.
Got it once more.
The rest of that paragraph:
Before he could even fumble at his belt, she pulled the trigger. The back kick of the pistol made her reel, as the roar of the explosion filled her ears and the acrid smoke stung her nostrils.
Got it again.
OK, tried to fool it with different subject matters, but I think once you get a hit on Margaret Mitchell, it sort of sticks it in a"favorite searches" queue or something, and knows where to look, so it pulls it up right away. And I didn't realize it at first, but the character name, "Aunt Pittypat" in the very first selection might have been a dead giveaway.
So my 'speriment with putting violent stuff in it (as opposed to "girly" stuff) did not fool it.
Is Louis L'Amour really a pen name of Margaret Mitchell? :) AFAIK, she never wrote another book under her own name.
Oh well, at least it was gun-related --concealed carry for women. :)
FWIW,
Terry, 230RN
Footnote
The "pistol" was a cap and ball single shot (similar physically to the typical dueling pistol of the time) that Charles, her husband, had left loaded with her in Atlanta. But its sounds like it was some kind of miitary issue gun. Never been able to determine what it actually was: "She fumbled in the leather box that hung on the wall below his saber and brought out a cap. She slipped it into place with a hand that did not shake."
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Plugged in some of my stuff from here and Facebook:
Tuesday's at Chemo - William Gibson (Who ?)
He's a famous Sci-Fi/Cyberpunk author. (Kind of invented the genera with "Neuromancer") although since about 2000 or so he's writing Cyberpunk set in "today", because technology moves so fast, (pervasive internet, smartphones, NGO's, pervasive media manipulation etc...) there's no point in trying to keep up.
I think "Tuesday's at Chemo" tripped as Gibson, because he's a very descriptive and visual writer. Conveying a lot of plot and meaning through descriptions of people and scenes, so I think the adjective count or whatnot in that piece tripped whatever metric they use as being Gibson for that one.
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Entered a snippet of Dickens; it came back with Mark Twain.
???
"That is, of course, Dikkens with two 'k's, the well known Dutch author."
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Based on my own analysis:
HankB, you write like Paris Hilton. RoadKingLarry reminds one of E.J. Dionne and lee n. field writes like early Steve LaHay. Hawkmoon is almost indistinguishable from Molly Ivins, and Tommy Gunn is Barack Obama, all the way.
:P
I write like Paris Hilton? Hey, the only thing she and I have in common is that we'd both like to visit Japan and see the Great Wall.
On the other hand, my analysis of your writing suggests that Fistful is actually the pen name used by Barney Frank . . .
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I pasted in a column from my blog on concealed carry in WI, and it came back Shakespeare. ???
"Hark, what .45 slug through yon window breaks?" Doesn't quite work, does it?
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"Hark, what .45 slug through yon window breaks?" Doesn't quite work, does it?
Was dragging on a cigarette and my guffaw made it fly across the room and bang on the wall, showering sparks all over.
Gotta go. I hear the sirens now. You owe me. Not just a keyboard. Not just a monitor. You owe me big time. They're coupling the hoses up to the hyd
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I pasted in a column from my blog on concealed carry in WI, and it came back Shakespeare. ???
"Hark, what .45 slug through yon window breaks?" Doesn't quite work, does it?
I dunno - did your blog include a line that said "The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers."?
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I put in something short and it came up Jack London, something quite a bit longer got me George Orwell.
Those work for me.
bob
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I plugged in several samples of my writing, from forum posts to lengthy letters, and most of the time it came back with Cory Doctorow. (I got an Agatha Christie once. ;/ )
Who the heck is Cory Doctorow? ???
Wikipedia starts off by stating he was born in Toronto, Canada to Trotskyist teachers, and was raised in a "Jewish activist" household. He also became involved in the nuclear disarmament movement and was a Greenpeace campaigner as a child. Now he blogs and writes science fiction.
I'm a science fiction fan, but I never heard of him until now. From the way his Wiki bio starts off, we don't have much in common . . .
He wrote, among other things, a book called 'Little Brother'. He opposes things like DRM and unwarranted state surveillance of average citizens, supports liberalized (less-restrictive) copyright laws, etc. George Orwell for the 21st Century, maybe - or that's what he's shooting for, at least. His work tends to be available for free online, with his permission, if you're into reading ebooks. Worth a look, IMO - I read 'Little Brother' in ebook format and asked for a deadtree copy for Christmas a couple of years ago, and I've downloaded a ton of his other stuff onto my Droid as well. APS'ers would seem to me to be good candidates to enjoy his work.
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He's a famous Sci-Fi/Cyberpunk author. (Kind of invented the genera with "Neuromancer") although since about 2000 or so he's writing Cyberpunk set in "today", because technology moves so fast, (pervasive internet, smartphones, NGO's, pervasive media manipulation etc...) there's no point in trying to keep up.
Yeah, what's the deal with that? I miss Ono-Sendai cyberspace decks, monofilament whips, and riding the backs of Russian virii into bad-ass corporate mainframes. I liked Pattern Recognition and am presently into Spook Country, but for these kinds of plots I could read Neal Stephenson(Cryptonomicon!). I want the old Gibson back.
Really, he kept specifics pretty well in check... the only real "gotcha" I can think of is the "huge" 32GB figure from Johnny Mnemonic, and even that may have been from the movie rather than the book.
Burning Chrome is a pretty good selection of short stories by Gibson. Quite worth reading.
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I fed it Edgar Rice Burroughs, and it said I write like Vladimir Nabokov.
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First story snippet gave me Kurt Vonnegut. [barf]
Second, Stephen King. ???
Third, Dan Brown. :mad:
I don't get it.
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I fed it a nibble of War and Peace
Amazingly enough it came back with Tolstoy.
A second dose of War and Peace returned Lovecraft.
A dose of Atlas Shruged also came back with Lovecraft.
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Looks like the output is a slightly biased random variable biased only by key words, and possibly things like number of syllables per word and such..
The longer the sample, the more key words it will pick up. But I don't think it's really looking at any kind of "style" parameters --if one can really define a "style," computer-wise.
Atlas Shrugged is quite possibly not in their search data base at all.
The whole premise of it reminds me of the old "Can you draw this?" come-ons that were in packs of matches, if anyone can remember those. A very simple drawing anyone with at least one hand and two fingers could draw. Then: "You may have artistic talent! Enroll now in our Artist's Course!"
Or something like that.
Final conclusion: Just a merchandising gimmick with a thin (very thin) veneer of something to stimulate your interest.
And judging by the number of responses herein, at least partially successful. Got a lot of "walk-in" traffic, didn't it?
Also sprach Terry, 230RN
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I plugged in several samples of my writing, from forum posts to lengthy letters, and most of the time it came back with Cory Doctorow. (I got an Agatha Christie once. ;/ )
Who the heck is Cory Doctorow? ???
Wikipedia starts off by stating he was born in Toronto, Canada to Trotskyist teachers, and was raised in a "Jewish activist" household. He also became involved in the nuclear disarmament movement and was a Greenpeace campaigner as a child. Now he blogs and writes science fiction.
I'm a science fiction fan, but I never heard of him until now. From the way his Wiki bio starts off, we don't have much in common . . .
I got Cory Doctorow too. Google came up with this:
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