Build a Text Analyzer program, and fed it "The Teachings Of Don Juan". Here are the results.

General Knowledge u/devbret_ 2020-12-20 17:52 UTC 13 points deleted

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u/TovanZero 2 points 2020-12-20 18:04

Not sure I understand the purpose of this?

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u/[deleted] 1 points 2020-12-20 18:11 deleted

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u/ANewMythos 3 points 2020-12-21 03:21

In what situation is this data valuable? Curious as well.

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u/[deleted] 0 points 2020-12-21 03:44 deleted

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u/mystify___ 2 points 2020-12-20 18:13

It's looking at the book from a "bird's view"... another perspective, but not necessarily interesting for everyone i guess

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u/mystify___ 1 points 2020-12-20 18:12

Interesting, thanks for sharing OP !

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u/fluffymckittyman 1 points 2020-12-20 19:38

Awesome! Great Not-Doing! I tried my own and tried to read it in order and make it into a story. Doesn’t work so well but it’s kinda trippy lol

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u/dirgable_dirigible 4 points 2020-12-20 19:47

It would be interesting to train GPT3 on the books to see what it spits out.

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u/HappyGoLuckyBoy 1 points 2020-12-20 19:47

OP -

I appreciate this and was wondering if you could do a different one of Carlos' books, or all of them? In particular, Tales of Power, The Fire Within, or Power of Silence?The whole series would also be fascinating.

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u/chaoticalheavy 1 points 2020-12-20 21:29

All four of these are pretty consistent with each other.

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u/danl999 6 points 2020-12-20 19:53

I learned Russian that way. Ran millions of random Russian texts through a program, found the common words, and paid a Russian woman to read them for me.

But I found something odd about Russian. It has a lot more unique words than other languages. Many of them swear words.

So the result was poor. I can memorize 6000 words to learn an average language, but you'd need 36000 for Russian.

I also discovered that Russian is nearly unique among languages. There's a thing called, "Intonational consonance". It's like a lower frequency side band channel in the sentences, which conveys emotional information.

Japanese is the only other language I could find with such a thing. And it only had a few.

Russian had so many, the scholar who studied it never got a true count.

So it's impossible to learn Russian, unless you live there a very long time.

I suspect there's also "side band" information in the books Carlos wrote. Possibly a program could discover that.

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u/samplist 2 points 2020-12-21 02:02

I speak another slavic language and i'm curious about this "intonational consonance". Can you give me an example?

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u/danl999 4 points 2020-12-21 16:21

I never understood it!

But as I recall, they've counted 36 kinds in Russian.

The voice "rises" and "falls", sort of like Mandarin's 4 combinations.

But it doesn't rise and fall on each word, it does that over a sentence.

The lack of understanding this has hurt the USA's negotiations with the Russians at times.

So let's say the sentence goes flat the entire way, but rises at the end.

Versus it rises in the middle, drops low, then comes back up level.

It's like that. Extra info is contained in there.

But it's such a rare topic, you can't even find info on it, in the top google search results.

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u/illuminated42 1 points 2020-12-21 17:47

It's interesting. I live in Russia and have never thought about it

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u/danl999 2 points 2020-12-21 18:42

I live in Russia and have never thought about it

You pick it up by listening as a child. I suppose, it's the first thing a child can hear. And small dogs too.

The rise and fall, conveying emotional information and other such things.

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