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Re: Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist

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Post by drilldrive » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 6:46 PM UTC

arendtio wrote: post #47

yeldarb wrote: post #2

I created this site using a Fast.ai trained language model using the Stack Overflow data dump. Full writeup available here: https://stackroboflow.com/about/index.html Interesting things I’ve noticed so far: * It does a remarkably good job of context switching between programming languages based on the semantics of the question! If the question is about SQL it often includes SQL in tags. If it’s about JavaScript it wi…

> Answering Questions Right now the model only generates questions. In version 2 I want to train it to answer questions. If I could get this working it'd actually become a useful tool instead of a fun toy. Looking forward to that part :D I mean, those answers are probably not going to be correct, but I wonder how close they will be to something useful.

Yes, many times the questioner does not actually need an answer to the question, he just needs to look a little closer to the situation, which is potentially able to be automated. But one should not disguise such automation as an 'answer': more like a query autocheck but more tooled-up.

Re: Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist

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Post by jerf » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 6:51 PM UTC

"I have creating a PNG Image file where I am printing out the image's with different colors and Image Types. Now I am sure I am drawing properly, but what I'm seeing is that the image is not differently jpeg (ie FF or Chrome) and Safari (for Firefox) is different from the one in Firefox. "

As a bit of a connoisseur of babblebots over the decades, one of the interesting things about this generation is that it is producing text that has a very interesting effect in my mind. There is a part of the parsing process where the above text went down smooth; yup, that's what Stack Overflow questions from early developers tend to look like. That part of my brain issues no objection. But the next layer up screams bloody murder about how nonsensical that is. And it's not just "that's a bad question but I still see the order under it", but nonsense.

It's a combination I've not experienced before. Previous generation babblebots could often produce a lot of fun text, but every processing level above raw word processing has always been able to tell it's computer garbage, even when it blundered onto a particularly entertaining piece of garbage. We've actually successfully moved up a level here.

As I'm describing subjective experience, YMMV.

Re: Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist

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Post by penagwin » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 6:54 PM UTC

kristianc wrote: post #22

Awesome. Can you create a neutral net that arbitrarily closes questions as off topic or non constructive? ;)

No need for a neural network, you can just use Math.random (or your respective language's RNG).

Sidenote, would this technically count as a neural network with only one weight (which is randomly initialized)?

Re: Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist

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Post by code_duck » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 6:56 PM UTC

Final question didn’t end in a question mark - perfect!

“I want to do something like this

$ _ -1 = object();”

We all do....

Now I see that the virtual question is different every time. Great work. It read better than most SO questions.

Re: Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist

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Post by jpindar » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 6:57 PM UTC

tom_usher wrote: post #20

Excellent! It's great when it tries to generate code: https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/8138 (the last line here made me laugh)

I heard you like paths, so I put some paths in your path:

https://stackroboflow.com/#!/question/973

Re: Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist

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Post by aur09 » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 6:58 PM UTC

This one is golden:

"What's the best way to indeed start a process on an OS x machine?

What is the best way to start a process on Mac OS x Snow Leopard?

There I just need to be able to run the OS x.exe from the command line and it's working fine (make it available in Windows). But I'm on an Mac and I haven't figured out how to do this for a Linux machine.

Another reason I ask is that I only have a Unix shell running with the Python process in it (it's my an Ubuntu machine, nothing didn't work in the shell).

Thank you in advance"

Re: Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist

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Post by wpasc » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 6:59 PM UTC

drilldrive wrote: post #61

arendtio wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Answering Questions Right now the model only generates questions. In version 2 I want to train it to answer questions. If I could get this working it'd actually become a useful tool instead of a fun toy. Looking forward to that part :D I mean, those answers are probably not going to be correct, but I wonder how close they will be to something useful.

Yes, many times the questioner does not actually need an answer to the question, he just needs to look a little closer to the situation, which is potentially able to be automated. But one should not disguise such automation as an 'answer': more like a query autocheck but more tooled-up.

I wonder what percentage of questions just need a correctly working example because the questioner is unsure of how to use a given API. Automation of this I imagine could actually be doable.

Re: Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist

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Post by avip » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 7:03 PM UTC

yeldarb wrote: post #2

I created this site using a Fast.ai trained language model using the Stack Overflow data dump. Full writeup available here: https://stackroboflow.com/about/index.html Interesting things I’ve noticed so far: * It does a remarkably good job of context switching between programming languages based on the semantics of the question! If the question is about SQL it often includes SQL in tags. If it’s about JavaScript it wi…

Thanks, brilliant work! Some questions are downright hilarious (see a suite of automated packaging techniques [0]), and the broken English just adds extra ESL credibility to the questions.

[0] >I want to write an update statement with a sequence of values I can run through a database. i've written the below code to broken up my character string into the columns. All of the articles i've read seem to suggest that I 'll need a suite of automated packaging techniques for my environment to all update the database.

What s the best way to update the column ids?

Thanks

Re: Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist

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Post by veryworried » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 7:05 PM UTC

jerf wrote: post #62

"I have creating a PNG Image file where I am printing out the image's with different colors and Image Types. Now I am sure I am drawing properly, but what I'm seeing is that the image is not differently jpeg (ie FF or Chrome) and Safari (for Firefox) is different from the one in Firefox. " As a bit of a connoisseur of babblebots over the decades, one of the interesting things about this generation is that it is produ…

This is like a mental tarpit, where you waste time reading trying to understand what the person is saying only to realize they were a bot and all your effort was for nothing, that is time you will never get back now.

This is a terrifying way to destroy an online community if a person floods it with nonsense content like this.

Re: Show HN: This Question Does Not Exist

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Post by natch » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 7:08 PM UTC

triplewipeass wrote: post #21

yeldarb wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am actually a bit worried that I’m already starting to see search engine traffic coming in... I hope that the good will outweigh the bad. I’d love to create an answer generator, for example. Once enough questions are generated I’m going to try creating a classifier to see if a neural net can differentiate between real questions and fake ones.

You could put up a robots.txt denying all search engines.

But the issue is not just what he could do, but what malicious content generation systems could do.