uncommon interests

[cellio]

Ok, I'm game. What uncommon interests held by my friends does this program think might interest me?

Interests Processed: conversion to judaism, aethelmearc, chassidism, shlomo carlebach, al-andalus, torah study, dnrc, renaissance counterpoint, internet history, squirrel hill, medieval heresies, barony-marche of debatable lands, ohr somayach, hammer dulcimer.

Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in
1. jerusalem score: 16
2. orthodox judaism score: 16
3. yiddish score: 15
4. shabbos score: 14
5. bmdl score: 11
6. garb score: 11
7. zohar score: 10
8. g-d score: 10
9. tanach score: 9
10. ישראל score: 8
11. medieval reenactment score: 8
12. shul score: 8
13. atenveldt score: 8
14. judaica score: 8
15. shadyside score: 8
16. yiddishkeit score: 8
17. jew score: 8
18. heraldry score: 7
19. zionism score: 7
20. medieval cookery score: 7

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Commentary

There seem to be two main threads here, Judaism and SCA, with some minor inputs elsewhere. Surprisingly, music does not make an appearance.

Redundant: bmdl, shabbos.

Ones they got right and I should probably add: medieval cookery, orthodox judaism (I'm interested even if that's not how I identify).

Yeah I'm interested, but I'm not sure about elevating to a listed interest: g-d, tanach, medieval reenactment, shul.

Not particularly interested: garb, zohar, judaica, yiddishkeit, zionism, jerusalem.

Definitely not interested: yiddish, atenveldt, heraldry.

Not a well-formed interest: jew.

Huh? #10.

AI is still no match for an informed human: shadyside.

Comments

[geekosaur]

#10 is a chunk of UTF-8-encoded Hebrew which is being mishandled (emacs likes to feed me that stuff when I edit files including Hebrew strings).

[cellio]

Ah, thanks. Any idea which particular Hebrew it might be? (Is there an easy way to decode?)

[geekosaur]

Best way I've found is to save the offending sequence to a file of its own, open it in a browser, then set the encoding to UTF-8. Which in this case reveals that it's actually worse than I originally said: it was originally UTF-8, but LiveJournal misread it as ISO8859/1 and re-promoted it to UTF-8, so now it's pretty well scrambled. I'm not quite sure how to recover, as I don't seem to be able to cut-and-paste it properly from the browser either. (When I do, I get:

�?שרא�

where the beginning and end are corrupted because the characters making them up aren't being copied right.)

[geekosaur]

Okay, the beginning and end are lost; they got converted into non-ISO8859/1 characters, which is why they won't convert back properly. You'll have to find whoever has that interest and ask them what it was originally.

[geekosaur]

And it looks like LJ isn't handling it right even in its current form; I get "interest not found". Bleh.

[cellio]

Thanks for giving it a shot!

[geekosaur]

Got it; I started poking around your friends list. Pretty obvious once it's complete: ישראל

[cellio]

Aha. Yeah, that makes sense. :-) Thanks.

[cafemusique.livejournal.com]

I didn't bother posting what I got because it was perfectly useless. I don't think any of them were things I'd add. Only two were music-related (and they were rather low on the list), and I had 17 character names (and one character pairing) from The West Wing. Um. Whatever.

[cellio]

Character names? Boggle. Yeah, that sounds pretty disappointing.

[mommyathome.livejournal.com]

I didn't have enough interests

[cellio]

Hmm, that's surprising. Or maybe you don't have enough "uncommon" interests. Dunno. (I haven't read the code for the script.)

[mommyathome.livejournal.com]

I think that was it. I don't have enough uncommon interests. Oh well.