I made a quick interactive that guesses your name based on your sex, the decade you were born, and what your name starts with.
It worked surprisingly well for a lot of people.
Since people often ask where my ideas come from or how a chart like this happens, I’ll use this name guesser as an example of my non-elegant process.
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