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Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by rspeer »

akavel wrote: post #154
wingerlang wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what I though, at least while reading the "type 'cat'" one.

I thought about it for a while, and then it occurred to me, that there are actually many ways one could possibly understand that -- thus replying e.g.: - cat - "cat" - 'cat' - panther (not exactly a cat, but kinda -- that's why it was in quotes, no?) - [one could type "cat" in one's terminal] - "Whiskers", etc. (i.e. name of one's cat) then, one could make a typo (thus e.g. "ca" or "catt"), or finally something more…

In a bit of "don't tell me what to do" pique, I typed the cat emoji, .

Turns out something in Google Forms uses UCS-2 internally, so it rejected my whole survey.

EDIT: I guess Arc isn't very good at this either.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by cromulent »

VikingCoder wrote: post #9
kittenfluff wrote: post #7

=== SPOILER ALERT! === The most interesting question, to me, is the one about which words you know the meaning of. About half of them aren't real words. I assume this question is used partly as a gauge of vocabulary (how many of the real words do you recognize) and partly of honesty (how many of the fake words do you claim to recognize).

I thought all of the words were perfectly cromulent.

Agreed ;)

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by TJSomething »

lotsofcows wrote: post #138
dudul wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And not at all biased toward native english speakers...

Really? I thought it was biased toward native USAian speakers. What the fuck is Cilantro?

Technically that's a bias toward Spanish speakers too, since cilantro is just "coriander" in Spanish, usually referring to the leaves.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by heynk »

jawns wrote: post #6

If you like this sort of thing, you may also enjoy: 1) My website Correlated.org ( http://www.correlated.org ), which has been generating weird correlations based on users' survey responses for more than four years. 2) Spurious Correlations ( http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations ) by Tyler Vigen, which also offers wacky correlations, but based on publicly available datasets rather than survey responses. 3)…

Can anyone explain how Google Correlate works? I understand how a brute-forced approach might work, but is there any way of optimizing this?

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by rspeer »

lotsofcows wrote: post #138
dudul wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And not at all biased toward native english speakers...

Really? I thought it was biased toward native USAian speakers. What the fuck is Cilantro?

Coriander leaves.

Does this not have its own word in British English? Even given their international cuisine?

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by organsnyder »

akavel wrote: post #154
wingerlang wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what I though, at least while reading the "type 'cat'" one.

I thought about it for a while, and then it occurred to me, that there are actually many ways one could possibly understand that -- thus replying e.g.: - cat - "cat" - 'cat' - panther (not exactly a cat, but kinda -- that's why it was in quotes, no?) - [one could type "cat" in one's terminal] - "Whiskers", etc. (i.e. name of one's cat) then, one could make a typo (thus e.g. "ca" or "catt"), or finally something more…

I included the quotes, just to be cute.

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by VikingCoder »

cromulent wrote: post #192
VikingCoder wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought all of the words were perfectly cromulent.

Agreed ;)

I saw a Reddit post once about how Google was releasing Cromcast.

I immediately pictured a device with an HDMI interface that continuously forces your TV to change to that input, turn up the volume, and then repeatedly play short videos from different scenes, of Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan the Barbarian, yelling "CROM!"

Re: The xkcd survey

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Post by splawn »

Balgair wrote: post #137

I wonder how many responses of : Cantaloupe');DROP TABLE Food;-- ol' Randal is going to get (or some permutation thereof). Figuring that Randal is pretty smart, I bet he has a piece of code to parse out that. Still, anyone here have a good hack that can just nuke days of his time whilst completing this form? Only other one I can think of him using is (for Matlab): Cantaloupe'); clear all; clc; close all;

He is hip to sql injection. https://xkcd.com/327/
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