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I'm sure they can achieve a degree of certainty, but not enough to hold up in a court of law because writing styles can be faked as well
by mwattsun 5y ago
I'm sure they can achieve a degree of certainty, but not enough to hold up in a court of law because writing styles can be faked as well
- tehjoker 5y agoI think one can pose the question of effectiveness in adversarial vs non-adversarial situations. I do think there are occasional "tells" someone has, but they're probably obvious things if you know the person. However, I'd still be skeptical because there are so many factors to consider in whether it works such as corpus selection. I'm not a statistician, but my spider sense prickled when I saw mention of "thousands" of features in the vector due to the curse of dimensionality.
- mwattsun 5y ago> but they're probably obvious things if you know the person An example of this is how Ted Kaczynski got caught: His brother recognized his writing and turned him in