> The post did not explain what methods were used,
The post didn't but the original thread did, I tried matching the vocabulary of the samples to the corpus of HN comments.
> what work in authorship identification influenced his approach
This is not a scientific paper.
> nor did he provide his ranked findings.
I'm not giving my ranked results because I think two attempts from me is enough.
> The tries are actually failed guesses, rather than, say, different algorithms attempted.
They were the #1 and #2 outputs of my code.
> This item has now devolved into a guessing game, rather than a coding exercise.
No-one said that you had to guess, but human guesses are also powered by computation at some level, even if it would be very hard to figure out exactly what went on.
> Again, stop trying to identify this user.
If that request would be posted by 'onetimetoken', who posted three times then it would have some credibility.
If you are not him/her why does this upset you ?
The 'one time account used as a rhetorical device' says fairly clearly that it is just a gimmick, not some kind of terrible secret.
And if you are 'onetimetoken' you are increasing the sample size ;)
I assume this upsets the user because using a one time account indicates a desire not to be identified or associated with the posted content, and the user wants this preference to be honored.
The post didn't but the original thread did, I tried matching the vocabulary of the samples to the corpus of HN comments.
> what work in authorship identification influenced his approach
This is not a scientific paper.
> nor did he provide his ranked findings.
I'm not giving my ranked results because I think two attempts from me is enough.
> The tries are actually failed guesses, rather than, say, different algorithms attempted.
They were the #1 and #2 outputs of my code.
> This item has now devolved into a guessing game, rather than a coding exercise.
No-one said that you had to guess, but human guesses are also powered by computation at some level, even if it would be very hard to figure out exactly what went on.
> Again, stop trying to identify this user.
If that request would be posted by 'onetimetoken', who posted three times then it would have some credibility.
If you are not him/her why does this upset you ?
The 'one time account used as a rhetorical device' says fairly clearly that it is just a gimmick, not some kind of terrible secret.
And if you are 'onetimetoken' you are increasing the sample size ;)