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mk  ·  3163 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Personality Insights about You Delivered by IBM's Watson

    You are shrewd and somewhat insensitive.

    You are empathetic: you feel what others feel and are compassionate towards them. You are philosophical: you are open to and intrigued by new ideas and love to explore them. And you are proud: you hold yourself in high regard, satisfied with who you are.

    You are motivated to seek out experiences that provide a strong feeling of well-being.

    You are relatively unconcerned with tradition: you care more about making your own path than following what others have done. You consider helping others to guide a large part of what you do: you think it is important to take care of the people around you.

I'll buy it. I put this text in if you want to see the rest:

Taking a bunch of comment and post text, I got this:

    You are inner-directed.

    You are unconcerned with art: you are less concerned with artistic or creative activities than most people who participated in our surveys. You are independent: you have a strong desire to have time to yourself. And you are intermittent: you have a hard time sticking with difficult tasks for a long period of time.

    You are motivated to seek out experiences that provide a strong feeling of prestige.

    You consider helping others to guide a large part of what you do: you think it is important to take care of the people around you. You are relatively unconcerned with tradition: you care more about making your own path than following what others have done.

I guess I am relatively unconcerned with tradition. I'd say that is true. Saying that I am unconcerned with art is flat out wrong.





thundara  ·  3163 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Said I'm shrewd too :(

    You are shrewd, skeptical and can be perceived as indirect.

    You are intermittent: you have a hard time sticking with difficult tasks for a long period of time. You are unconcerned with art: you are less concerned with artistic or creative activities than most people who participated in our surveys. And you are independent: you have a strong desire to have time to yourself.

    You are motivated to seek out experiences that provide a strong feeling of efficiency.

    You are relatively unconcerned with tradition: you care more about making your own path than following what others have done. You consider achieving success to guide a large part of what you do: you seek out opportunities to improve yourself and demonstrate that you are a capable person.

Some of this seems accurate, some not so much. It kept a few of its evals even when I sampled from different sections of my comment history, so at least it's consistent?

If anyone cares, I can put up my python scrips for scraping comments so you don't have to load-copy-paste your comments by hand. Linky

thundara  ·  3163 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Tried a few other people... it definitely does not overlap very well with how I've come to view them... It also drops the intermittent / art / tradition comments on almost everyone I fed into it (including non-hubski people).

b_b  ·  3163 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My original test was with a blog post I wrote about dualism. Then I repeated with just hubski comments. The hubski content flattened out a lot of the extreme 99% this, 1% that, but things were mainly trended similarly. The written synopsis was similar in both cases.

I'm surprised how often it says that the writer doesn't value art. I wonder what that's based on. Maybe we can get _refugee_ to drop some poetry on it, and see what it says.

thundara  ·  3162 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I'm surprised how often it says that the writer doesn't value art. I wonder what that's based on. Maybe we can get _refugee_ to drop some poetry on it, and see what it says.

Yeah, maybe it's just got a narrow definition of "art"? I've definitely discussed movies, music, and fiction on here... but maybe it's only accepts content found in a museum... that or the entire engine is overtrained.

Looks from the docs that it was trained on <500 people, so I'm tempted to say it's not the most comprehensive of classifiers / judgers...

_refugee_  ·  3162 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I threw 20p worth of poetry in (only about 4k words; i'll have to add 2k more from somewhere) and this is what I got (I have bolded the particularly hilarious bits):

    You are a bit compulsive.

    You are laid-back: you appreciate a relaxed pace in life. You are proud: you hold yourself in high regard, satisfied with who you are. And you are independent: you have a strong desire to have time to yourself.

    You are motivated to seek out experiences that provide a strong feeling of self-expression.

    You consider independence to guide a large part of what you do: you like to set your own goals to decide how to best achieve them. You are relatively unconcerned with tradition: you care more about making your own path than following what others have done.

      Openness54%

    - Adventurousness33%

    - Artistic interests26%

    - Emotionality66%

    - Imagination59%

    - Intellect43%

    - Authority-challenging73%

    Conscientiousness25%

    - Achievement striving27%

    - Cautiousness28%

    - Dutifulness10%

    - Orderliness59%

    - Self-discipline20%

    - Self-efficacy25%

    Extraversion46%

    - Activity level3%

    - Assertiveness52%

    - Cheerfulness35%

    - Excitement-seeking25%

    - Outgoing12%

    - Gregariousness7%

    Agreeableness38%

    - Altruism10%

    - Cooperation18%

    - Modesty7%

    - Uncompromising16%

    - Sympathy50%

    - Trust9%

    Emotional range72%

    - Fiery68%

    - Prone to worry66%

    - Melancholy71%

    - Immoderation68%

    - Self-consciousness44%

    - Susceptible to stress73%

    Needs

    - Challenge11%

    - Closeness39%

    - Curiosity55%

    - Excitement35%

    - Harmony49%

    - Ideal55%

    - Liberty45%

    - Love17%

    - Practicality24%

    - Self-expression60%

    - Stability45%

    - Structure22%

    Values

    - Conservation16%

    - Openness to change86%

    - Hedonism63%

    - Self-enhancement35%

    - Self-transcendence79%

_refugee_  ·  3162 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Here is almost 9k words of poems. Almost everything is the same. FWIW they are not mostly the same poems.

    You are a bit inconsiderate.

    You are laid-back: you appreciate a relaxed pace in life. You are proud: you hold yourself in high regard, satisfied with who you are. And you are independent: you have a strong desire to have time to yourself.

    You are motivated to seek out experiences that provide a strong feeling of self-expression.

    You are relatively unconcerned with tradition: you care more about making your own path than following what others have done. You value independence a bit more: you like to set your own goals to decide how to best achieve them.

      Openness58%

    Adventurousness45%

    Artistic interests25%

    Emotionality53%

    Imagination68%

    Intellect52%

    Authority-challenging64%

    Conscientiousness32%

    Achievement striving25%

    Cautiousness36%

    Dutifulness14%

    Orderliness43%

    Self-discipline21%

    Self-efficacy19%

    Extraversion56%

    Activity level2%

    Assertiveness48%

    Cheerfulness37%

    Excitement-seeking20%

    Outgoing20%

    Gregariousness12%

    Agreeableness40%

    Altruism14%

    Cooperation26%

    Modesty7%

    Uncompromising17%

    Sympathy35%

    Trust14%

    Emotional range55%

    Fiery56%

    Prone to worry53%

    Melancholy63%

    Immoderation64%

    Self-consciousness32%

    Susceptible to stress56%

    Needs

    Challenge6%

    Closeness25%

    Curiosity39%

    Excitement23%

    Harmony27%

    Ideal47%

    Liberty34%

    Love9%

    Practicality10%

    Self-expression53%

    Stability30%

    Structure12%

    Values

    Conservation20%

    Openness to change74%

    Hedonism69%

    Self-enhancement33%

    Self-transcendence74%

I find it interesting I don't score about a 74% in any category in this one. And in the above I think I don't go above 86.

b_b  ·  3163 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's almost verbatim what mine said. Did you feed them technical or philosophical writing, by chance?

thundara  ·  3163 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Only hubski comments / irc comments (see my reply just now to parent)