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Hm, that’s a multinomial classification with a very high cardinality. It’s really weird it works. I’m sure it does as the author states, but for how many author

by vslira 5mo ago

Hm, that’s a multinomial classification with a very high cardinality. It’s really weird it works. I’m sure it does as the author states, but for how many authors (out of the whole web) does this work?

kelseyfrog 5mo ago
Sure the cardinality is high, but the model isn't using a uniform prior. What do you suppose all the the values in each of the terms are, P(Text sample | Kelsey Piper) * P(Text sample) / P(Kelsey Piper)?
astrange 5mo ago
Maybe it just says all writing is Kelsey Piper.
dmd 5mo ago
It worked on me, and I would be shocked if my blog (dmd.3e.org) has more than a dozen readers. I am stunned.
- skeledrew 5mo ago
  It's not about the readers, just the fact that there's enough of a sample that it can use, with sufficient differentiation from other content.
  - dmd 5mo ago
    I’ve posted on average 3 things a year.
londons_explore 5mo ago
There are ~8 billion people. Sounds big, but it's only 2^33. Ie if you can find 33 things about the text which halve the number of possible writers, you have narrowed it down to 1 person. Just a couple more things and you can accommodate some of your things being mistaken/wrong/uncertain too.