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Re: Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network

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Post by staticautomatic »

uwydr wrote: post #95
blauditore wrote: post #68

It's basically a buzzword detector. "this is just a tool for detecting buzzwords" => Bad: 0.9991 - Good: 0.0011 "this is merely a device for detecting artificially sophisticated words" => Bad: 0.0019 - Good: 0.9980

That is how it works here, you collect upvotes if you use fancy words. That's why everybody uses the word "orthogonal" here all the time. Have you ever seen that word anywhere else?

Yes. I'll take orthogonal any day over HN things like "foot gun" or the cryptic invocation of so and so's "law"

Re: Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network

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Post by dsr_ »

blauditore wrote: post #68

It's basically a buzzword detector. "this is just a tool for detecting buzzwords" => Bad: 0.9991 - Good: 0.0011 "this is merely a device for detecting artificially sophisticated words" => Bad: 0.0019 - Good: 0.9980

deoxyribonucleic cloned asynchronously

Bad: 0.0001 - Good: 0.9999

Re: Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network

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Post by thaumasiotes »

bencollier49 wrote: post #90
blauditore wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"linux for sohpisticated when if contextual what but then" => Good: 0.9986 "linux for sohpisticated when if contextual what but then what" => Good: 0.0201

sohpisticated ?

I think whether the title is spelled correctly is a valid thing to take into consideration when predicting whether it will get upvotes.

Put another way, I think misspelled titles are well within the problem domain here.

Re: Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network

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Post by thaumasiotes »

uwydr wrote: post #95
blauditore wrote: post #68

It's basically a buzzword detector. "this is just a tool for detecting buzzwords" => Bad: 0.9991 - Good: 0.0011 "this is merely a device for detecting artificially sophisticated words" => Bad: 0.0019 - Good: 0.9980

That is how it works here, you collect upvotes if you use fancy words. That's why everybody uses the word "orthogonal" here all the time. Have you ever seen that word anywhere else?

> That's why everybody uses the word "orthogonal" here all the time. Have you ever seen that word anywhere else?

Yes, frequently. It is common in various areas of math -- mathematical background is not something "normal people" usually flaunt, but there are good reasons to expect programmers to have much more such background than average.

A good rule of thumb is that people are probably using the words they use because those words make sense to them. See the first panel here: http://www.basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2009/1/2...

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