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Trigram count can be enough. I saw a demo of that on HN users to look for alt account a year or two ago. Worked great. Found all my alts.
by whatnow37373 1y ago
Trigram count can be enough. I saw a demo of that on HN users to look for alt account a year or two ago. Worked great. Found all my alts.
- flashblaze 1y agoWas it this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016
- johnisgood 1y agoSadly I cannot access https://stylometry.net/ https://stylometry.net/. :( I really want to know what it would have said about me. Edit: https://antirez.com/hnstyle https://antirez.com/hnstyle does work though!
- flashblaze 1y agoOh yeah! I remember someone mentioning that on Twitter as well. Bookmarked
- littlestymaar 1y agoThere's a big flaw with the algorithm that was detecting similarly between users: it only works if your different accounts discusses the same topics.
- SchemaLoad 1y agoIt doesn't though. It was going off usage of very common words like "its", "he", "and" rather than topic specific ones. Just that alone seems to work shockingly well. If you combined it with a few more data points like timestamps and topics of interest it would get even more accurate.
- littlestymaar 1y agoI can guarantee you it doesn't work in practice. If you put aside my former account, it mostly matches the current one with other rust developers and absolutely not with my alt (which doesn't discuss Rust at all). I'm not questioning what would theoretically be possible to do, but the one that I saw failed the test.