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Summary: a blog about machine learning is criticizing the writing in a culture magazine for being too florid. His argument is that all writing, no matter the au
by bww 6y ago
Summary: a blog about machine learning is criticizing the writing in a culture magazine for being too florid. His argument is that all writing, no matter the audience, should be written in a terse, declarative style at an 8th grade reading level.
He attempts to justify this ludicrous opinion by using "Hemingway", a presumably-ML-powered robot copy editor app, to prove that this magazine is "hard to read".
There, I saved you ten exasperating minutes.
- jpttsn 6y agoYou saved the reader time by writing clearly?!
- MrMan 6y agoI was going to run your comment through the Hemingway app but when I googled it I got to a site which has an expired SSL cert, and then instead of it being a harmless free hobby project where you paste text in, they want me to buy a 20 dollar app. Nice try, growth hackers critiquing NYT.