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Good job first of all.. So out of fun, I typed in "the dudes and dudettes were here" to test your system. The neutral responses as rewrites were a bit worrying.

Good job first of all.. So out of fun, I typed in "the dudes and dudettes were here" to test your system. The neutral responses as rewrites were a bit worrying. You may want to look into it. Congrats on it. EDIT: @Mikkiq, thank you for taking those words out promptly and correcting it. Cool site.

jaymzcampbell 11y ago
Agreed, it's nicely put together. I think this could grow into a handy tool, like an advanced thesaurus of sorts. Not sure if it was another word, but the word 'dudes' still has a suggestion to a word I'd firmly rank 'impolite' when I tried just now. That said it includes a whole bunch of swear words (marked impolite) - I could weirdly see using this to add a bit of flair to a put down. I do find these things quite fun; I put in "You are a sexy beast" and got "You are a hot dog" as neutral, "You are a beautiful dog" as neutral but "You are a beautiful horse" would be pushing it and impolite; though "You are a glamorous horse" (or hot) is neutral. Giving it a go with some Donald Trump twitter text, the suggestion was "President Obama was terrible on @60Minutes tonight" is impolite; a suggested change that would be more polite was "President obama was incredible on@60minutes last night.". I noticed with that it looped through the same words a few times - in some cases labelling the same phrase as both neutral and polite.
- pavornyoh 11y ago
  @Jaymzcampbell, The suggested rewrite for "the dudes and dudettes were here" and gave it a 60/100 and a neutral response was "The N(hint: for black) and fellas were here". All in all, this is a neat site for when I am angry and need to be polite with words. I like the responses you got though. I can see myself using you are a glamorous horse:)
  - tekromancr 11y ago
    This actually seems pretty profound. Semantically, in some contexts, those words could be used interchangeably. It seems that the algorithm simply didn't understand the context where it would be socially acceptable to use such language, It's kinda like a small child!
    - pavornyoh 11y ago
      >It seems that the algorithm simply didn't understand the context where it would be socially acceptable to use such language, It's kinda like a small child! Thats correct. I further used the the suggested rewrites and it came back with some wild suggestions. It is hard to get $100%.
  - dang 11y ago
    > @Jaymzcampbell, Please don't repeat the username you're replying to. HN's threaded comments make that redundant.
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- pavornyoh 11y ago
  I agree..
- tekromancr 11y ago
  Ahh, guilty. Sorry about polluting your dataset! My first reaction to seeing this tool was "Ohh, I wonder what it thinks about cursewords". I can't imagine that is a rare thought.

jaymzcampbell 11y ago

Agreed, it's nicely put together. I think this could grow into a handy tool, like an advanced thesaurus of sorts. Not sure if it was another word, but the word 'dudes' still has a suggestion to a word I'd firmly rank 'impolite' when I tried just now. That said it includes a whole bunch of swear words (marked impolite) - I could weirdly see using this to add a bit of flair to a put down. I do find these things quite fun; I put in "You are a sexy beast" and got "You are a hot dog" as neutral, "You are a beautiful dog" as neutral but "You are a beautiful horse" would be pushing it and impolite; though "You are a glamorous horse" (or hot) is neutral. Giving it a go with some Donald Trump twitter text, the suggestion was "President Obama was terrible on @60Minutes tonight" is impolite; a suggested change that would be more polite was "President obama was incredible on@60minutes last night.". I noticed with that it looped through the same words a few times - in some cases labelling the same phrase as both neutral and polite.

pavornyoh 11y ago
@Jaymzcampbell, The suggested rewrite for "the dudes and dudettes were here" and gave it a 60/100 and a neutral response was "The N(hint: for black) and fellas were here". All in all, this is a neat site for when I am angry and need to be polite with words. I like the responses you got though. I can see myself using you are a glamorous horse:)
- tekromancr 11y ago
  This actually seems pretty profound. Semantically, in some contexts, those words could be used interchangeably. It seems that the algorithm simply didn't understand the context where it would be socially acceptable to use such language, It's kinda like a small child!
  - pavornyoh 11y ago
    >It seems that the algorithm simply didn't understand the context where it would be socially acceptable to use such language, It's kinda like a small child! Thats correct. I further used the the suggested rewrites and it came back with some wild suggestions. It is hard to get $100%.
- dang 11y ago
  > @Jaymzcampbell, Please don't repeat the username you're replying to. HN's threaded comments make that redundant.

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pavornyoh 11y ago
I agree..
tekromancr 11y ago
Ahh, guilty. Sorry about polluting your dataset! My first reaction to seeing this tool was "Ohh, I wonder what it thinks about cursewords". I can't imagine that is a rare thought.