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?
Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
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#122Re: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
#123Ingenious idea. At the very least, this is just about finding people who write like us, the same way we seek those with similar tastes (music...) How long before large commercial indexers start offering an efficient (AI based ?) stylometry to agencies and states ? wait... do you think the NSA is already doing this?
(Statistical stylometry is a little newer and more rigorous than manual stylometry, which essentially involved a human being's judgement call around the similarity of documents.)
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#124Re: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
#125nice one. are you using gpt3 under the hood?
I'm not that smart - my site is basically just doing some calculations on word frequencies. You can read https://academic.oup.com/dsh/article-abstract/17/3/267/92927... and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09296174.2011.53... and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755898 for more information.
One small nit from a user experience point of view..: it'd be easier on the eyes if you just truncated those cosine similarity scores (or whatever score you're using) after the, say, 5th digit. Showing the entire float is kinda messy to my eyes.
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#126Re: Show HN: Using stylometry to find HN users with alternate accounts
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
FWIW, top 20 was necessary for mine. The bolding was a brilliant move. Several of my accounts were ranked 10-20, but popped out due to the bolding.
What does the bolding indicate?
As far as I’m concerned, it’s the killer feature of the app. The top 20 results may be noisy, but the bolded results have a signal to noise ratio close to infinity.