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Post by Elliot Kane on Jul 3, 2009 12:27:11 GMT
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Jul 3, 2009 12:40:06 GMT
Woo, what a brilliant find.
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Post by Elliot Kane on Jul 3, 2009 15:58:28 GMT
I thought so. I can totally see how it would work and it's something that's scientific and easy to understand. The two don't usually go together
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Post by Dark Phoenix Rising on Jul 3, 2009 16:18:01 GMT
don't be so happy though, as search engines like google are investing heavily in intellegent language tracking - so that they can try to match up people that are not logged in to a user that is logged in - and thus improve their profiles.
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Jul 4, 2009 4:55:09 GMT
Huh? Could you explain that more clearly?
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Post by Dark Phoenix Rising on Jul 5, 2009 15:12:38 GMT
They've developed programs and algrothims that can be applied to mountains of raw text and index lingustic styles, thus improving their advertinsing techniques.
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Jul 6, 2009 0:46:11 GMT
Ah I see and how does that have to do with this: " so that they can try to match up people that are not logged in to a user that is logged in - and thus improve their profiles. " ?
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Post by Dark Phoenix Rising on Jul 6, 2009 9:17:59 GMT
Say you have a gmail account that you use to send emails.
Google then has a copy of every email that you send using that account (and every email you receive).
They can then go through all of those emails with their algrothmn and build a profile of how you write. Then while their trawling the web for forum, blog, wiki, etc, posts they build a profile of each post they come accross, and if it give it a confidence score against the internal profiles, and the profiles they have of other people. As they get more and more information their confidence scores get more accurate, and if you happen to put any personally identifying information in your post that they can match up to their internal records, or to another virtual profile, their scores get even more accurate.
Fortunatily at the moment it's a fairly slow process...
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Jul 6, 2009 15:44:46 GMT
Yeah, times they are a'changing - nowadays it's "Big GOOGLE is watching you...!" You'll start to miss the good old 'big brother'
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Post by rhiian on Jul 9, 2009 12:59:19 GMT
ahaha i saw that in the paper :']
ever since i've been going around and recognising all the little things my friends do.
for example i have one friend who never EVER uses capitals, one who uses them for stressing the word, and Another Who Does It At The Start Of Every Single Word. the last one does my head in. xD
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Post by Elliot Kane on Jul 9, 2009 13:52:09 GMT
LOL. I hate that too, Rhiian, I have to admit ;D
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Jul 9, 2009 16:15:48 GMT
Well then German is not your language... (While ist is by far not EVERY word, it is a lot of them)
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Post by The Sonar Chicken on Jul 9, 2009 16:30:39 GMT
What is "ist"? You mean... German has a lot of unusual punctuation rules? ;D Ich bin Hmmm... Oh anyways... Google can try to analyse me but there's just one thing: many people evolve throughout their entire lives. Just how are they uhm going to piece everything together when one's style of writing and thinking change from to time? Oh and moodswings too: how is a piece of software going to detect that it's all from the same person?
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Jul 9, 2009 22:19:26 GMT
What is "ist"?Well, occasionally I do make and overlook a typographical error - this is one. (Also 'ist' is 'is' in German)
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Post by Hildor on Jul 11, 2009 9:51:58 GMT
Isn't It Quite Hard To Type When You Start Each Word With A Capital. Or do you get used to it?
Typing that sentence took me twice as long as typing a normal one. Well, you actually think longer of what you will say, before you say it, when you type slower. And that can only be a good thing ^^
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Jul 11, 2009 11:33:55 GMT
"Für uns ist das Normal. Es ist eine Frage der Gewohnheit und der Übung." (6 capitals)
= For us this is normal. It's a question of habit and excercise. (2 capitals)
3:1 = That should be about the ratio between German and English.
The easy part is 'all names, all nouns are capitalized'. The tricky part comes with 'substantivated adjectives', which are capitalized also.
The 'Big Bang' came with the 1998 orthography reform (A very German idea to let linguistic professors in the ivory tower develop a 'reform' of the official language of three sovereign nations, one of which a multi-dialect federal republic of 16 states, and one with 4 separate official languages - and then codify it into law, in all 19 legislatures!). The intent of 'making German easier to learn' fired back, with the result that a number of unpopular and /or (rightly) critized rules are now officially 'old and/or new are correct' - Now that makes easy learning!^^
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Post by Dark Phoenix Rising on Jul 13, 2009 9:00:30 GMT
When You Can Touch Type, Adding A Capital To The Beginning Of Every Word Becomes Just A Matter Of Habit Rather Than Speed.
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Post by Hildor on Jul 13, 2009 10:25:31 GMT
What is touch typing?
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Post by Dark Phoenix Rising on Jul 13, 2009 10:41:42 GMT
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Jul 13, 2009 14:42:13 GMT
Ah - we call that 'blind typing'.
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