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dariusk / NaNoGenMo

National Novel Generation Month. Because.
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I'm in, and I'm doing horrible things to fanfiction. #60

Open ianrenton opened 10 years ago

ianrenton commented 10 years ago

My plan involves Fanfiction.net, and it is going to be awful.

ianrenton commented 10 years ago

The script is coming along nicely. It's like one of those viagra spam mails that try not to look like spam - only it's about Doctor Who.

Here's the repository: https://github.com/ianrenton/NaNoGenMo

And an example of what it currently generates: http://pastebin.com/9q62dtwr

lilinx commented 10 years ago

this could have fooled me, I didn't know there were Viagra spam generated in a similar way

ianrenton commented 10 years ago

I think it's a new technique that's still relatively rare among spammers - I've only received a few messages like it.

The technique is called "Bayesian Poisoning" (according to Wikipedia, anyway) and tries to both evade and degrade the performance of Bayesian spam filters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_poisoning

dariusk commented 10 years ago

Wow, very very cool.

jseakle commented 10 years ago

I think it's a new technique that's still relatively rare among spammers

I don't think this is the case. I was under the impression that most spam these days uses Bayesian Poisoning; at the very least I've personally been receiving it in bulk for at least five years (I think more).

aandnota commented 10 years ago

This is great!

ianrenton commented 10 years ago

@jseakle Fair enough - I only assumed it was rare because I rarely receive that kind of spam, and the Wikipedia page was pretty difficult to find since I didn't know the name of it!

ianrenton commented 10 years ago

Since the last example I've added HTML generation using an ERB template, and the story can now be split into a number of chapters.

I've put up a new example output on GitHub Pages here: http://ianrenton.github.io/NaNoGenMo/example.html

Advance warning: this was generated from My Little Pony / Sonic the Hedgehog cross-over fanfiction, so it's... special. Not in a good way.

ianrenton commented 10 years ago

Well, November's gone so I guess I should call time on this script! Thanks to everyone who's offered tips and praise for my junk code, and every poor fool who has incorporated my code into their own NaNoGenMo script!