Every time I analyze a different story or even a different chapter of the same story, I get a new author. Either this analyzer isn't so hot, or I have no consistency (I suspect the latter).
I can imagine it has some sort of "keywords" list to narrow a random list. I guess the best way to test it would be to see if there's any consistency to it when you add or remove a paragraph of the same work. I don't think my stories were written like any of those authors it compared me to, but ~shrug~
Still, all that aside, it's a toy that provides an amusing few minutes diversion.
Every time I analyze a different story or even a different chapter of the same story, I get a new author. Either this analyzer isn't so hot, or I have no consistency (I suspect the latter).
ReplyDeleteI put in "The Orphan, the Baron" and got
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Neil Gaiman
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I wonder if it just randomizes the authors in its database. I'm pretty sure I write like Steve Doyle.
Then I put in "White Death" (a story about a Russian soldier) and got "you write like Leo Tolstoy". Hmmmm.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine it has some sort of "keywords" list to narrow a random list. I guess the best way to test it would be to see if there's any consistency to it when you add or remove a paragraph of the same work. I don't think my stories were written like any of those authors it compared me to, but ~shrug~
ReplyDeleteStill, all that aside, it's a toy that provides an amusing few minutes diversion.
Okay, seriously. One selection gave me Tolstoy, and another gave me Dan Brown. I ain't buying. :)
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