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Re: Show HN: Comments by Top HN Posters Analysed by IBM's Watson User Modelling API

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Post by kolinko »

agilebyte wrote: post #46
kolinko wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IBM's/Watson's documentation is really vague on what these things are, but there's some explaination to that in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits One thing that we're wondering is whether a score 1% means that it believes that the person has little of this treat, or that it has little proof to believe that the person has this treat. If I'm not mistaken it's the former.

Yes, former. It may be useful to translate these into other systems[0] so that you see what each end of the spectrum means. [0] http://similarminds.com/global5/g5-jung.html

That would be fun - to see if a person is INTF or ENTJ next to his/her nickname on the page :)

Re: Show HN: Comments by Top HN Posters Analysed by IBM's Watson User Modelling API

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Post by hobs »

fivedogit wrote: post #52

I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but @Tichy ranks first in Emotional range, Fiery, Prone to worry, Melancholy, Immoderation, Self-consciousness and 2nd in Susceptible to stress. I haven't read any of his/her comments but this makes me wonder how distinctly each of these measurements are calculated. Given another random set of 100 users, would one user come out on top in all of these categories too?

It makes me think that a few extreme posts (or even one) are weighing the results so heavily that they win in a bunch of categories.

Re: Show HN: Comments by Top HN Posters Analysed by IBM's Watson User Modelling API

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Post by gleenn »

hluska wrote: post #43
waterlesscloud wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Empathy-as-a-service is the killer app for Google Glass. Finally!

Somewhere, an ad executive is thinking up a commercial about humanizing glassholes...

I'm sitting on a sleepy but full Tokyo train and laughed out loud... those glassholes don't have a chance do they.

Re: Show HN: Comments by Top HN Posters Analysed by IBM's Watson User Modelling API

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Post by MrQuincle »

Mz wrote: post #54
edw519 wrote: post #53

This is hilarious! I'm ranked first in: Cheerfulness (Before or after morning coffee?) Orderliness (Because of my 3rd normal form sock drawer?) Gregariousness (Before of after my 3rd beer?) Agreeableness (I disagree! Watson needs debugging.) I'm ranked dead last in: Imagination (No one I know could imagine how this could be.) Authority-challenging (My teachers & bosses would disagree.) Intellect (Before or after my m…

Intellect (Before or after my mother dropped me on my head?) In other words, you are ranked 148th out of like 100k really smart people. So, maybe quitcherbitchin? :-)

Ha, indeed. :-)

Watson didn't even remotely consider me. What do I have to do to get its attention?!

Re: Show HN: Comments by Top HN Posters Analysed by IBM's Watson User Modelling API

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Post by davyjones »

sysk wrote: post #55
edw519 wrote: post #53

This is hilarious! I'm ranked first in: Cheerfulness (Before or after morning coffee?) Orderliness (Because of my 3rd normal form sock drawer?) Gregariousness (Before of after my 3rd beer?) Agreeableness (I disagree! Watson needs debugging.) I'm ranked dead last in: Imagination (No one I know could imagine how this could be.) Authority-challenging (My teachers & bosses would disagree.) Intellect (Before or after my m…

This could make a good movie plot. The all powerful AI analyses your characteristics, gets it all wrong and assigns you to the wrong line of work (Harry Potter?) :)

Master short story scifi writer Sheckley, R. has this covered:

Bad Medicine

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9055/9055-h/9055-h.htm

Re: Show HN: Comments by Top HN Posters Analysed by IBM's Watson User Modelling API

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Post by protomyth »

kolinko wrote: post #78
protomyth wrote: post #76

On an iPad I cannot click on anything above extraversion and need to reload to click something else. Not sure about the results, I'm pretty sur I value liberty more than Watson thinks I do.

It's not so much about what you value, but what values you project.

It would be nice to see what comments it thinks lead to certain beliefs on its part, but I am pretty sure it needs some work.

Re: Show HN: Comments by Top HN Posters Analysed by IBM's Watson User Modelling API

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Post by jacques_chester »

I'm extremely relieved that sometime in the past few months I've dropped off the list.

In case you're wondering, IBM's BlueMix is a public installation of Cloud Foundry, which is an opensource PaaS. Disclaimer: I work on Cloud Foundry at Pivotal.

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