Re: Scouted: The Gender Genie

2003-09-09 Thread Julia Thompson
Chad Cooper wrote: > > I ran this on some messages for a self-help list I subscribe to. I found > that in almost every case, it resolved the messages as female. This list is > characteristic in that little confrontation occurs between members, even > when a post is decidely aggressive. However, a

RE: Scouted: The Gender Genie

2003-09-09 Thread Chad Cooper
- perhaps creating a confrontation index based upon a lists masculinity or feminity tendencies. Nerd From Hell > -Original Message- > From: Julia Thompson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 11:17 AM > To: Killer Bs Discussion > Subject: Re: Scouted: The Gen

Re: Scouted: The Gender Genie

2003-09-05 Thread Julia Thompson
Jon Gabriel wrote: > > >From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: Scouted: The Gender Genie > >Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:17:

Re: Scouted: The Gender Genie

2003-09-05 Thread Jon Gabriel
From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Scouted: The Gender Genie Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 13:17:14 -0500 Jon Gabriel wrote: > > http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.

Re: Scouted: The Gender Genie

2003-09-05 Thread Julia Thompson
Jon Gabriel wrote: > > http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html > > Very cool, even though it got the two graphs I ran wrong. My mom *just* got hold of this one. She used the same sort of technique for feeding it passages, i.e., cutting and pasting something already written. She participates

Re: Scouted: The Gender Genie

2003-08-23 Thread Julia Thompson
Jan Coffey wrote: > > I am sure we will all agree this algorithum is somewhat flawed. In practice, > only half were acurate. > > This algorithum does not seem to work. In practice it was acuate only %50 of > the time. What's interesting is that it had me pegged correctly for 70% of my responses,

Re: Scouted: The Gender Genie

2003-08-23 Thread Jan Coffey
I am sure we will all agree this algorithum is somewhat flawed. In practice, only half were acurate. This algorithum does not seem to work. In practice it was acuate only %50 of the time. --- Jon Gabriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html > > Very cool, even t

Re: Scouted: The Gender Genie

2003-08-22 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon Gabriel wrote: > > > > http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html > > > > Very cool, even though it got the two graphs I ran > wrong. > > I submitted 10 quotes from things I'd sent out to > the list in the past 7 > days, carefully selecting agai

Re: Scouted: The Gender Genie

2003-08-22 Thread Julia Thompson
Jon Gabriel wrote: > > http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html > > Very cool, even though it got the two graphs I ran wrong. I submitted 10 quotes from things I'd sent out to the list in the past 7 days, carefully selecting against anything that even hinted at pregnancy. :) It came back 7 fe

Re: Scouted: The Gender Genie

2003-08-22 Thread TomFODW
> Very cool, even though it got the two graphs I ran wrong. > I just typed in the first 3 paragraphs of my draft novel, and it guessed the author is female. Hmmm...not the last time I went to the bathroom... Tom Beck www.prydonians.org www.mercerjewishsingles.org "I always knew I'd see the

Re: Scouted: The Gender Genie

2003-08-22 Thread Erik Reuter
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 02:39:21PM -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote: > http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html > > Very cool, even though it got the two graphs I ran wrong. Not so cool. It got me wrong, which doesn't prove much. But if you tell it whether or not it was wrong, it pops up statistics for