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- aaronsw and pg share mcphageThe "analyze" feature works pretty well. My comments underindex on "this" - because I have drilled into my communication style never to use pronouns without clear one-word antecedents, meaning I use "this" less frequently that I would otherwise. They also underindex on "should" - a word I have drilled OUT of my communication style, since it is judgy and triggers a defensive reaction in others when used. (If required,…
"Ought to" is essentially a synonym. Anyone that gets upset when you said they should do something but is fine when you say that they ought to do something is truly a moron.
This is actually super easy. The data is available in BigQuery.[0] It's up to date, too. I tried the following query, and the latest comment was from yesterday.
SELECT
id,
text,
`by` AS username,
FORMAT_TIMESTAMP('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ', TIMESTAMP_SECONDS(time)) AS timestamp
FROM
`bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full`
WHERE
type = 'comment'
AND EXTRACT(YEAR FROM TIMESTAMP_SECONDS(time)) = 2025
ORDER BY
time DESC
LIMIT
100
Maybe I talk too much on HN. :) When I ran it, it gave me 20 random users, but when I do the analyze, it says my most common words are [they because then that but their the was them had], which is basically just the most common English words. Probably would be good to exclude those most common words.
I figured it maybe would cluster me with other non-native speakers but it doesn't appear to. Of all the accounts where I could identify a country of origin, all were American.
we have Dissociative Identity Disorder, I wonder if our different personalities would also have different fingerprints? we do have different writing styles
The "analyze" feature works pretty well. My comments underindex on "this" - because I have drilled into my communication style never to use pronouns without clear one-word antecedents, meaning I use "this" less frequently that I would otherwise. They also underindex on "should" - a word I have drilled OUT of my communication style, since it is judgy and triggers a defensive reaction in others when used. (If required,…
I prefer to avoid such absolutes and portray causality instead.
For example, in place of “you should not do drugs at work” I prefer “if you take drugs at work you’ll get in trouble”.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, the way that these things work is usually by focusing exclusively on the usage patterns of very common (top 500) words. You get better results by ignoring content words in favor of the linking words.
Interesting, I think it also doesn't help that outside of a throw away on a blue moon, I don't really use alts...
The "analyze" feature works pretty well. My comments underindex on "this" - because I have drilled into my communication style never to use pronouns without clear one-word antecedents, meaning I use "this" less frequently that I would otherwise. They also underindex on "should" - a word I have drilled OUT of my communication style, since it is judgy and triggers a defensive reaction in others when used. (If required,…
I think “should” and “ought to” end up being equivalent. I prefer to avoid such absolutes and portray causality instead. For example, in place of “you should not do drugs at work” I prefer “if you take drugs at work you’ll get in trouble”.