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Re: Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)

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btgeekboy wrote: post #99
eli wrote: post #54

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Wouldn't that also require a hundred same sized differently colored buttons, just like this site?

Not necessarily. What if the un-visited box was set to display:none? That would leave you with just the visited boxes showing. Now make it even less obvious: create a false box with the proper :visited color. That's your bottom layer, your fallthrough if the user hasn't visited any of them. Now position all of the :visited boxes as exactly the same size and position over that bottom layer. Now, when the user clicks t…

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Re: Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)

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Post by ralfd »

espadrine wrote: post #132
keerthiko wrote: post #75

I could probably post a similar gizmo on HN with a results static page that says Your interests are: (some subset of) Programming Science Technology Games With literally no scripting, and everyone would find it "reasonably accurate" :D

> Your interests are: (some subset of) Programming Science Technology Games Me being me, I clicked on random grey squares. I got exactly that. There is a selection bias from the choice of URLs it provides.

Haha, tried it out and you are right.

I an a bit disappointed by the results anyway. Something like gender guess, sexual orientation, age range and political leaning would have been more impressive than the programming/movies graph.

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Post by Conlectus »

kephra wrote: post #133
staccatomeasure wrote: post #93

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fwiw, my results were very wrong

The selected sites are very biased towards things you can do in front of a computers. So this nice "Who am I?" trick only shows an intersection of my interest with those of the author. e.g. its completely missing my 3 main hobbies, as sailing, sewing and vaping had not been on his list of selected sites.

I tried not to make the subjects biased, and many (most) of the interests are not those that I have.

However, I could only include high-level, reasonable common interests, as including more would cause there to be too many squares.

Re: Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)

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Post by martin-adams »

asadlionpk wrote: post #84
joev_ wrote: post #3

Heh. I clicked a few before I realized what was going on (looking at the status bar shows the link, which somewhat gives it away). You could prevent this by adding mouseover/out and onclick logic that removed the :href on hover and just colored itself red.

but i guess then it won't be red on hover.

But in that case, you can add CSS to make it red on hover.

Re: Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)

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Post by xor-ed-wolf »

indralukmana wrote: post #131
xor-ed-wolf wrote: post #126

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Did you ever heard of cold reading?

hey thanks, i just googled it. I knew something about it (like reading expression or something, from watching 'the mentalist'), but i did not know what it was called. but CMIIW the technique used in the linked app is categorized as 'hot reading' right? because it somewhat gather information from our "browsing history". Somewhat same technique used by google for user 'profiling' maybe? just a little bit of assumption.

The hot reading is researching information on you directly which is less relevant in this case as you don't leave implicit traces of "I love reading Konan Doyle" in your researchable browser history. You may have visited some Konan Doyle sites but you can still do it for other reasons than actually liking his books so any such attempt will include a lot of guesswork.

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Post by Conlectus »

espadrine wrote: post #132
keerthiko wrote: post #75

I could probably post a similar gizmo on HN with a results static page that says Your interests are: (some subset of) Programming Science Technology Games With literally no scripting, and everyone would find it "reasonably accurate" :D

> Your interests are: (some subset of) Programming Science Technology Games Me being me, I clicked on random grey squares. I got exactly that. There is a selection bias from the choice of URLs it provides.

That's because you probably clicked in roughly the same area. The squares are grouped on the page by interest.

Somebody else clicked all of the squares, and art was #1, with painting #3.

Re: Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)

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Post by Conlectus »

deeteecee wrote: post #115
Conlectus wrote: post #91

For anyone interested in the source, I started hosting it on GitHub at https://github.com/Conlectus/WhoAmI .

do you plan to put the graph into the source anytime soon? i was curious at looking through the code.

I just added the graph to the source.

Re: Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)

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Post by danielweber »

amjd wrote: post #101
analog31 wrote: post #92

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For those of us who don't know Javascript, I'll just ask in broad terms: What is it, how's it work, what's it do?

It's a neat little hack to predict your interests among various categories. The hundreds of grey boxes that you see are actually links to sites belonging to different categories like programming, science etc. and the red ones are those that you have visited (based on your browser history). The basic idea here is of using the CSS selector a:visited to highlight visited links in red, and by clicking the red boxes the u…

I thought it was going going to be a psychological experiment in how patient I was in clicking the little boxes.
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