Twitter Bot Finds Anagrams of Twitter Statuses

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Post by nateguchi » Wed, Aug 13, 2014, 10:20 AM UTC

Twitter Bot Finds Anagrams of Twitter Statuses
anagramatron.tumblr.com

Re: Twitter Bot Finds Anagrams of Twitter Statuses

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Post by Igglyboo » Wed, Aug 13, 2014, 12:26 PM UTC

"Mustache got thicker" vs "git checkout hamster"

This bot is pretty funny.

Anyone know how it works? I'm assuming it just sorts the string and puts it in a hashmap/table and looks for collisions.

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Post by breyten » Wed, Aug 13, 2014, 12:36 PM UTC

Igglyboo wrote: post #2

"Mustache got thicker" vs "git checkout hamster" This bot is pretty funny. Anyone know how it works? I'm assuming it just sorts the string and puts it in a hashmap/table and looks for collisions.

The source is on github : https://github.com/cmyr/anagramatron

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Post by subir » Wed, Aug 13, 2014, 12:47 PM UTC

Igglyboo wrote: post #2

"Mustache got thicker" vs "git checkout hamster" This bot is pretty funny. Anyone know how it works? I'm assuming it just sorts the string and puts it in a hashmap/table and looks for collisions.

This particular one had me in splits (:

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Post by bussiere » Wed, Aug 13, 2014, 12:55 PM UTC

Nice one :)

I love when people use programming to play with words.

Sad it's english only. I may work on a french version.

But really nice idea.

Re: Twitter Bot Finds Anagrams of Twitter Statuses

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Post by madcaptenor » Wed, Aug 13, 2014, 1:30 PM UTC

I'm a bit surprised that there are anagrams to be found. It's easy to find them if they exist, but there's no guarantee at all that there actually should be collisions.

Re: Twitter Bot Finds Anagrams of Twitter Statuses

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Post by DanBC » Wed, Aug 13, 2014, 1:35 PM UTC

madcaptenor wrote: post #6

I'm a bit surprised that there are anagrams to be found. It's easy to find them if they exist, but there's no guarantee at all that there actually should be collisions.

I'm not a statistician.

Is it really that surprising? English has plenty of redundancy; Twitter statuses have limited length.

What's surprising to me is the niceness of the found anagrams. "another math genius" / "he ain't smart enough".

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Post by madcaptenor » Wed, Aug 13, 2014, 1:42 PM UTC

DanBC wrote: post #7

madcaptenor wrote: post #6

I'm a bit surprised that there are anagrams to be found. It's easy to find them if they exist, but there's no guarantee at all that there actually should be collisions.

I'm not a statistician. Is it really that surprising? English has plenty of redundancy; Twitter statuses have limited length. What's surprising to me is the niceness of the found anagrams. "another math genius" / "he ain't smart enough".

I am a statistician. Maybe I should sit down and actually do some calculations.

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Post by duiker101 » Wed, Aug 13, 2014, 1:55 PM UTC

Igglyboo wrote: post #2

"Mustache got thicker" vs "git checkout hamster" This bot is pretty funny. Anyone know how it works? I'm assuming it just sorts the string and puts it in a hashmap/table and looks for collisions.

I found "another math genius" vs "He ain't smart enough." pretty funny

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Post by cmyr » Wed, Aug 13, 2014, 2:40 PM UTC

bussiere wrote: post #5

Nice one :) I love when people use programming to play with words. Sad it's english only. I may work on a french version. But really nice idea.

hey, author here: It's english only mostly because of volume, and because I review results. Making a french language version would mostly just be a matter of hosting. If you're interested let me know, I'd love to help you out.