words are the heartbeat of language ... or something like that

[truepenny]

matociquala pointed me to this story about a program, originally designed to predict heart-attacks, which is apparently doing very well at determining authorship of various early modern English plays.

There's something so sfnal about this that it just fills me with giddy delight.

(But please ignore the crack about "most Shakespeare scholars" down near the end of the article. Shakespeare scholars have been using computer programs to argue about authorship for decades.)