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my second highest hit (ie, third in the list) is gwern at 0.45 who i'm fairly sure is not me.
I was actually just looking at near hits for gwern and found what's almost definitely a defunct alt for him.
On an unrelated topic, I'm starting a service to write comments in the style of others to provide plausible deniability for other alt accounts. Rates negotiable.
Funny thing would be to find most unique user account stylistically. Which user has lowest best match? Mine is 0.58 so I'm really not that unique.
I played a little bit with it and it is baffling how well it finds accounts of people that know each other in real life. So it's not only good for finding alternate accounts but could be used to find peer groups.
The method used, i.e. to calculate the cosine of the two authors' word vectors, is poorly suited for stylometric analysis because it is based on a poster's lexicon and the word frequencies of each word, but ignoring stylistically relevant factors like word order. Also, the cosine of the vectors of word frequencies conflates author-specific vocabulary and topics; in other words, my account is grouped (with >51% simila…
This is an evil website. We won’t have any anonymity soon. The highest match is my years old banned account that I forgot about. Where did you get the data from?
HN Firebase API. I just wrote a program in C++ with libcurl to get https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/1.json , https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/2.json , https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/3.json , ...
After a few tries on boring accounts, I thought to try the account of somebody who was notorious for an incident outside of HN, and had a (deservedly) bad time at HN for a couple of years before the account went dark. And yeah, there's a bunch of high confidence (.6-.8) hits for that account, and from a quick browse of the comments of the recently active ones, they look really likely to be alts. Like, all three that…
I keep no alternate accounts, but this tool reports best matches for me that appear to be Slavic or just Russian - and I am Russian. Best match score in my list is just above 0.5. There are some clearly alternate accounts on the list, their match scores with this tool are well above 0.7. It is probable that persons of same cultural origin will have similar writing style and vocabulary. It is also probable that person…
Inserting random Unicode blank, 1/4, 1/2, or zero space characters into your writing may help thwart it too, if you are paranoid
There's someone (michaelmior if you're around!) with a false positive 0.46 match to me. Maybe we could be friends :)