So, like starfishstar, I was struck between the similarity between this guessing game and puzzles like sudoku, and being a bit of a computer programmer, I just had to try my hand at creating a program to do some guessing for me. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to train a neural network on everyone's styles (maybe next time), but I have managed to pull something together akin to a sudoku solver.
Since I also used a computer program to gather all the information about everyone's sign-ups and submissions, I only used information that was easy for me to access on dreamwidth (the tags provided for the gifts and what type of gift, for which sources, pairings, and characters people volunteered to make). I admit, most of the time so far has been spent trying to figure out how to get the data into a usable form so I could finally run the algorithm on it, and I don't have too much to show just yet because as it is now everything has to match perfectly and it will only come to a conclusion if, based on the information provided, that's the only gift that creator could have possibly made (or vice-versa), but so far my bot has concluded that:
natrix_natrix/two-nipples-maybe-more probably made With Times A-Changin'.
yakichoufd and strampunch made "Whispering soft nothings, receiving hard somethings in exchange." and Soft moments (but it can't tell which of the two made which piece)
It also outputs a table of all the possible creators for the gifts it wasn't able to guess, but I don't have that in an uploadable form just yet. If anyone has any questions about the code, I'd be more than happy to go into it a bit more!
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Guessing by the bot
Date: 2020-12-18 11:17 pm (UTC)Since I also used a computer program to gather all the information about everyone's sign-ups and submissions, I only used information that was easy for me to access on dreamwidth (the tags provided for the gifts and what type of gift, for which sources, pairings, and characters people volunteered to make). I admit, most of the time so far has been spent trying to figure out how to get the data into a usable form so I could finally run the algorithm on it, and I don't have too much to show just yet because as it is now everything has to match perfectly and it will only come to a conclusion if, based on the information provided, that's the only gift that creator could have possibly made (or vice-versa), but so far my bot has concluded that:
It also outputs a table of all the possible creators for the gifts it wasn't able to guess, but I don't have that in an uploadable form just yet.
If anyone has any questions about the code, I'd be more than happy to go into it a bit more!