PBEM Game: Yarnspinners 2 (Running) - Page 24

The_Tauren13 · #**231** June 8th, 2005, 08:22 PM

Yes. And I forgot to send gems for yarn writing thus far, so this turn I will do that.

The_Tauren13 · #**232** June 8th, 2005, 08:27 PM

I do wish there was a way to make the gui dissapear completely for the screenshots...

Sedna · #**233** June 8th, 2005, 10:16 PM

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And keep in mind that your neighbor to the N is not a ravening land-grabber like the purple-legionnaire-snake-people.

Yeah, what about them Pythites? Buying up the mercs and expanding like there's no tomorrow...

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Figuring out the cases where the bot is wrong is left as an exercice for the reader.

I'm going to guess that the bot is wrong in it's conclusion that some contributors are neither male nor female.

djo · #**234** June 9th, 2005, 09:16 AM

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Alneyan said:
And pointlessness galore: I have used the Gender Genie on all our yarns for turn 0 and turn 3, and it appears that we are all males, according to the bot. Sedna and myself are the least males, with a very marginal difference (virtually no difference at all), and Djo's male part doesn't have much of a lead over the female part.

I suppose I like being a well-balanced (male) person.

When a few more yarns are up, I'm thinking of feeding in my (and Sedna's) separate story threads to see how the different POV characters differ.

It might also be interesting to feed an author's posts in and see how much the results differ from the author's fiction.

In the list of words the site tagged as male was "said", which would seem to skew fiction. Also: "is" = male, "was" = female? Fiction is most often written in past tense, but I chose present tense for 1/3 of my work. Makes you wonder.

Alneyan · #**235** June 9th, 2005, 09:41 AM

Was is the weakest keyword for female, so it should not have much of an impact, I think. Said is more annoying though...

Still, it's only good for pointless statistics, though the bot appears to be correct 60% of the time. Not bad, but the advertisted result was 80% correct answers.

Sedna · #**236** June 9th, 2005, 09:39 PM

So... the bot is right 60% of the time for Yarnspinners 2 players? With 9 players that's really either 67% or 56% (3 or 4 females). I believe I know the genders of 5 players (of which one is female). 2 other players I have some reason to believe are male, leaving both "unknowns" female.

This could be an excellent logic puzzle: If A knows that 1 out of 5 are female, and B knows that 2 out of 6, how long will it take the train to reach St. Louis?

The Panther · #**237** June 9th, 2005, 11:25 PM

Puffyn, Alneyan, and Sedna are female. The rest are male.

Then again, I could be wrong.

PashaDawg · #**238** June 9th, 2005, 11:39 PM

What is this program that you are talking about?

Sedna · #**239** June 10th, 2005, 12:04 AM

I think this one:

http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.php

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Puffyn, Alneyan, and Sedna are female. The rest are male.

Just for kicks, I threw all of Yarnspinners 1 into the Genie. A bigger sample should be more accurate, no? All of the above show up as male. In truth, you are correct in at least one instance, and wrong in at least one.

Who are around what, said these many more?

Alneyan · #**240** June 10th, 2005, 06:05 AM

Well, at least one player will have to consider suing the bot for libel... for Sedna is indeed correct in hir assessment.

That should tell you the gender of all those three players, unless someone happens to be lying, of course.

The only "unknown" I can think of would be Djo. The Inquisition will have some work to do it seems; I mean, that's the whole point of having an Inquisition to begin with.