Cokeheads slip AI onto Yahoo front page
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Cokeheads slip AI onto Yahoo front page
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#2And when the speech was over, McCarthy spoke up from the auditorium's front row. "I'm a little puzzled," he said. "What does this have to do with AI?"
I love you, John!
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#3Poorly titled and misrepresented
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#4I've had a yahoo mail account since before the internet. It's my spam and bacon account. And my habit is to go through yahoo.com to get to mail. So I see all the stories and I've never clicked on a celebrity gossip story. Once in a blue moon there will be a science story and I've clicked on a few of those. So what do I keep seeing over 99% of time?
Celebrity gossip.
Thanks AI!
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#5Poorly titled and misrepresented
Exactly -- Nick, you've already won the karma game, no need to linkbait.
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#6Poorly titled and misrepresented
Exactly -- Nick, you've already won the karma game, no need to linkbait.
I am not linkbaiting. If you check the article's title, you will see that it is unchanged. The title comes from this part:
"Agarwal calls it Coke for short, and his fellow researchers are affectionately known as Cokeheads."
Also, I don't like editorializing and injecting my opinion and pg doesn't as well (I'm guessing he's the one who reverts headlines to their original state when they're editorialized). I've changed few headlines in the past but only when they were grossly misrepresentative of the article or just plain crappy and didn't convey the content of the article.
So, if you have a problem with the headline, complain to The Register please :).
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exactly -- Nick, you've already won the karma game, no need to linkbait.
I am not linkbaiting. If you check the article's title, you will see that it is unchanged. The title comes from this part: "Agarwal calls it Coke for short, and his fellow researchers are affectionately known as Cokeheads." Also, I don't like editorializing and injecting my opinion and pg doesn't as well (I'm guessing he's the one who reverts headlines to their original state when they're editorialized). I've changed…
I don't go to the Register for news, so their linkbait headlines aren't a problem for me until someone submits them here, even if it's unchanged. So I will complain here.
Changing a "curiosity" headline to make it clear what the article is about is not editorializing (except in the most literal sense, so let me preempt any pedants on that point) or injecting opinion.
Example: "Yahoo! Researchers develop algorithms to select stories for front page"
Is that less intriguing? Yes. Will it get less karma? Yes. Will the people who are genuinely interested in the topic covered still click on it? Yes.
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#8Tom may like to read about Paris Hilton and Harry may like reading about what President Bush had for dinner. I am not interested in both, but I do bother if some company gets funded, if some website gets bought or if someone writes a 'hello world' app in a hundred languages. I don't have the same interests as Tom or Harry. And featuring their likes on my headlines just because they clicked doesn't make an uber-cool feature or a handy tool. To me, it just sounds like a bad automated-Digg clone.
This is totally a commercial idea. They seem to be interested in the clicks and henceforth the dollars. The idea would have been a runaway hit if they tried to personalize news as per personal interests.
Well, this system cannot personalize news until they ask me to specify my interests and tweak the news personally for me. It can be done with a Yahoo Pipes app ofcourse. But its still like using a calculator for 3+4. How about a direct feature - "personalize ur news".
One way to read such news is to use the Google News Search RSS feeds. It works for me.
I mentioned just a few days back, that I was working on a news engine - for news analysis and news search (it's for a contest and I'm working on it since I am a news buff). The idea is currently half complete since I have my exams on(will be over by 15th of this month). I found a simple way to personalize news :) I just gave the idea a try and it does seem to be crappy, but its an easier way because that's the simplest data I have access to as a developer. Will post it here soon. I have to convert the app from php to python (going to run it on Google App Engine)
John McCarthy; that name reminds me of something... "No one has yet buit a monument so high that a bird can't fly over it and shit on it" --John McCarthy
That's my favorite quote.
A bit of info if you don't know who John McCarthy is: the man who coined the term "Artificial Intelligence"
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am not linkbaiting. If you check the article's title, you will see that it is unchanged. The title comes from this part: "Agarwal calls it Coke for short, and his fellow researchers are affectionately known as Cokeheads." Also, I don't like editorializing and injecting my opinion and pg doesn't as well (I'm guessing he's the one who reverts headlines to their original state when they're editorialized). I've changed…
I don't go to the Register for news, so their linkbait headlines aren't a problem for me until someone submits them here, even if it's unchanged. So I will complain here. Changing a "curiosity" headline to make it clear what the article is about is not editorializing (except in the most literal sense, so let me preempt any pedants on that point) or injecting opinion. Example: "Yahoo! Researchers develop algorithms to…
Great jraines! You've got a point there. I would like to see headlines like the one you mentioned in the example. Straight-to-the point headlines. It makes reading easier. I think this point should be mentioned in the submission guidelines for Hacker News(and would better if its a rule). Simple headlines save time too. Example: I spend most my of my time with no access to a computer, away from home. I am browsing on a mobile phone with 8kBps internet speed. And simple headlines saves me page loading time. I usually avoid clicking on headlines that are confusing. (and thats why I use mobile lingo in most of my comments) :)
would like to see others' opinions on this matter(its a pretty serious one).