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Why Your Online Impersonation of a 16-year Old Girl Won't Last Long

Posted by timothy on from the because-soon-enough-you'll-be-17-anyhow dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Can computers pick up your age and gender from your tweets? If you want to give it a try, here's your chance: 'To develop your software for age and gender identification, we provide you with a training data set that consists of blog posts, Twitter tweets, social media texts, as well as hotel reviews.' Well, at least my paid Amazon reviews are safe for the time being..."

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  1. If you want to read a summary that makes sense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    here's your chance to write one.

  2. Re:This is a software contest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    What they forget to mention is that if your program also identifies ethnicity, you will be fined for racism.

  3. Just what I need ... by MacTO · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now both people and computers will call me a girl.

  4. A couple of rules to live by. by dietdew7 · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. You can assume that someone is female if they act like a man without reason or accountability. 2. Anyone that shows interest in you sexually is an undercover police officer.

  5. Re: assuming too much by lucm · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gotcha, you're a dude. Girls never use "btw": they use "fyi" with a whiny, self-righteous sarcastic undertone.

    Thinking of that, this applies to flamboyant gay males as well.

    So you are either an overweight straight guy in his early 30s or a Perl script written by an overweight straight guy in his early 30s.

    --
    lucm, indeed.