Grellas is the ideal human ^^
Show HN: Comments by Top HN Posters Analysed by IBM's Watson User Modelling API
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#32Does not seem correct. The top poster for practicality has some useless thank you posts that provide nothing useful to the reader. StackOverflow even tends to lock questions that just get a lot of useless thank you comments to prevent putting useless information on the page for people coming to find reference material.
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#33Somebody please make a browser plugin that uses this data. I know the data isn't perfect, but it would be nice to be able see who in a thread is a top HNer and which character traits are outliers from the norm. You get insulted by somebody ranked low in Sympathy? No need to worry. I'm serious. Somebody do this. It would look great on the résumé.
Or, we could learn to do brief history searches and check out past user comments if it really matters. I'm generally pretty suspicious of any sort of computer-generated personality profiles, and though I understand the appeal to techies of empathy-as-a-service I don't think it's something we should consider relying upon. Hell, half the fun in life is trying to figure out who other people really are.
one man's fun is another man's nightmare.
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#34Grellas is the ideal human ^^
He's last on Cheerfulness :)
Re: Show HN: Comments by Top HN Posters Analysed by IBM's Watson User Modelling API
#35Does not seem correct. The top poster for practicality has some useless thank you posts that provide nothing useful to the reader. StackOverflow even tends to lock questions that just get a lot of useless thank you comments to prevent putting useless information on the page for people coming to find reference material.
There are three users which had a word count below the minimum recommended by Watson:
whoishiring, peter123 and the one you mentioned - Libertatea
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#36I had a small giggle at my rankings, not going to lie. Without a definition for what each of these things are, it's a little unclear what this is actually saying. I'm assuming there's some documentation on this somewhere?
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.
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#37whoishiring leads the "Artistic interests" section.
Re: Show HN: Comments by Top HN Posters Analysed by IBM's Watson User Modelling API
#38Somebody please make a browser plugin that uses this data. I know the data isn't perfect, but it would be nice to be able see who in a thread is a top HNer and which character traits are outliers from the norm. You get insulted by somebody ranked low in Sympathy? No need to worry. I'm serious. Somebody do this. It would look great on the résumé.
Or, we could learn to do brief history searches and check out past user comments if it really matters. I'm generally pretty suspicious of any sort of computer-generated personality profiles, and though I understand the appeal to techies of empathy-as-a-service I don't think it's something we should consider relying upon. Hell, half the fun in life is trying to figure out who other people really are.
Empathy-as-a-service is the killer app for Google Glass. Finally!
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#39These results look pretty spotty...the rankings seem about as random as picking out names from a Bingo machine. User ssciafani is among the top users in Cautiousness, Openness, and Adventurousness, Stability, and Practicality. Any "Yeah, user johndoe is totally some-characteristic! revelations may be no more the intentional result of a sophisticated algorithm than the confirmation bias that many have when reading a horoscope.
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#40This is interesting. On the visualization, though, I'm not sure what the purpose of the inner ring is (it just seems to chart the first entry in the group at the next level out, which doesn't seem to be particularly meaningful.)