RE: Scouted: The Gender Genie

2003-09-09 Thread Chad Cooper
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 Gender Genie Jon Gabriel wrote

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

2003-09-05 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 on

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.html Very cool, even though

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 13:17:14 -0500 Jon Gabriel wrote: http://www.bookblog.net/gender

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

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,

Scouted: The Gender Genie

2003-08-22 Thread Jon Gabriel
http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html Very cool, even though it got the two graphs I ran wrong. Jon Le Blog: http://zarq.livejournal.com _ Get MSN 8 and enjoy automatic e-mail virus protection.

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

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 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

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 against anything