The Gist

Stylometry for Dummies

Sep 11, 2018 · 27 min · Episode 1087 · 26.8 MB
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On The Gist, are we having a national crisis?

The New York Times' publication of an anonymous op-ed has sparked rounds of speculation as to who's behind it—and the deep-state trappings it describes. Some see the word "lodestar" as signature Mike Pence, but as Sadia Afroz explains, stylometry—the analysis of prose to uncover its author's identity—is a little more complicated than looking at individual words. Afroz is a senior research scientist at the International Computer Science Institute.

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