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Great article. If nothing else, spreading the word about the severe limitations of stylometry is very important. This stuff gets used in forensics, and like oth
by syllogism 11y ago
Great article. If nothing else, spreading the word about the severe limitations of stylometry is very important. This stuff gets used in forensics, and like other oversold forensic techniques, causes some terrible injustices. Once the court has allowed some expert testimony, the jury is instructed to take it at face value.
- joshdickson 11y agoI am by no means an expert, in fact, it was really that having no expertise led me to dismiss it from what I ended up doing. I still wanted to mention it because (1) it's super interesting, (2) I think that it's not well known about, and (3) maybe I could catch someone who is only sort of tangentially into code or engineering, and hook them in with this sort of use case. Probably asking for a little too much on the last part ;)