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Re:Carnegie Mellon face recognition study has unsettling res... by anigbrowl on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @04:25PM (#3049727)
Forensic textual analysis predates the internet, actually, and I can say with near certainty that someone out there is working on this right now.

Plagiarism detection software is increasingly common in education. I've actually been looking for something similar to filter news commentary systems, to get a sense of what %age of comments on political stories are actually astroturf.

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Re:Carnegie Mellon face recognition study has unsettling res... by yanowitz on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @10:57PM (#3050929)
Please build this. It sound fantastic. You might even find a market for selling information about what AstroTurf campaigns are being run.
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Re:Carnegie Mellon face recognition study has unsettling res... by anigbrowl on Thursday September 29, 2011 @06:50PM (#3054653)
You know, I've just recently started studying law, so I really don't have the time to work up the required scraping/webdev skills from scratch. In fact, I don't have as much time to post on HN either, and should probably be posting less :-) But I would love to collaborate on this part-time if there's anyone in the Bay Area for whom scraping and hashing would be trivial tasks. Same name at gee mail.
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