How much can Artificial Intelligence learn from your writing? Your gender? Your MBTI personality type? Can someone find out such things about you from your writing?
uClassify is a free text classifier web service, using which you can develop your own text classifiers. Several have been developed already, the most popular being GenderAnalyzer and Typealyzer.
Gender Analyzer
GenderAnalyzer …
Category Archives: personality
Classifying a Blog’s Writing Style
Superlative Style of Composition — In Action
I’ve written before about what I call the Superlative Style of Composition with regards to writing - where a writer blends conceptual and perceptual styles into the most persuasive style of writing. Let us take an example to illustrate this. I’m referring to Ergo talking about why India is not a tourist brochure.
The goal of the …
Poetically Speaking, What is Poetry for me?
Again, something I’d written long time back, in 1990, to be precise. All criticisms welcome!
What do I write about?
The mountains, lakes, skies;
Or birds, flowers, and the like?
Here I am, amongst my daily troubles,
Wanting some peace of mind
Thought I would write a poem
But what do I write about?
I wonder what poets possess
That makes them poets
I wonder how their …
Which half of your brain are you using at the moment?
There are some truths you figure out yourself without needing to study them elsewhere.
I learnt a bit of yoga when I was a child, and while doing pranayama, learnt that the left nostril leads to the right part of the brain and vice versa.
Some years later, I bought the book Whole Brain Thinking, and discovered the …
Styles of Composition — Music
This is a sequel post to Styles of Composition — Writing. Please read it before you read this post. Thanks.
Structural Music
On the one hand, we have complex, heavy, and unemotional compositions, which are vigorous and characterized by structure and grandeur. When listening to such music, personal and emotional responses are minimal, as the mind is involved …
Styles of Composition — Writing
This is a piece I’d written in 1991, with minor edits. I’m not sure what ‘categories’ I should post this in. When I read it today, it sounds too simplistic and I could be justifiably accused of over-simplification and generalization. However, I think it is still a humble and worthwhile exercise in the tenuous conceptual …
Yawning to Compliment
I knew it, and it’s now proven: A yawn is actually a compliment.
BBC Reports:
Yawning may appear the height of rudeness, but in fact your body is desperately trying to keep you awake, according to research from the US.
The common wisdom is that people yawn because they need oxygen, but the researchers at the University of Albany …
I’m in the queue, so I have lesser IQ?
My cousin, an eldest sibling, alerted me to this news finding: The eldest children in families tend to develop higher I.Q.’s than their siblings, researchers are reporting, in a large study that could settle more than a half-century of scientific debate about the relationship between I.Q. and birth order.
Salient Points
The study was carried out only on men. Researchers say …
INTJ Resources and Links
I have consistently found a lot of traffic to my blog with searches related to INTJ. One of the reasons for this, I think, is that there is no good “Index” site for INTJs. One needs to search and then visit a lot of pages in an exploratory fashion to really get what you’re looking …
26 Cognitive Biases You Never Knew You Had
Thanks to Bernie, who empathized with the plagiarism of my poem, I stumbled upon this excellent list!
A cognitive bias is something that our minds commonly do to distort our own view of reality.
More interestingly, “you’ll never be able to truly gauge any of the biases you might be operating under since it’s not possible to …
