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Re: Most Down-Voted Stack Overflow Questions

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The mod explanation for the Neural Net question is revealing: "This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet"

That's a canned response. When users vote to close a question they have to pick from a list. When a question is closed the most popular reason for closing is automatically shown. I guess it tells us that people will vote to close even if a question doesn't fit into any of the close reasons, and that a previously "too broad" question would be closed as "too narrow" if you tighten it up.

That question clearly fit the canned reason for closing. It was a homework debugging question on a tight deadline.

Re: Most Down-Voted Stack Overflow Questions

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Made a 'Most Controversial' query: http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/281279/mos... Sorry for the bad formatting, new to SQL

I liked this idea, but noticed the gap between up/down votes was actually quite large, meaning the questions weren't actually that controversial. I went ahead and made a change that filtered out results where ABS(up - down) is less than half of MAX(up, down). (its quite a bit messier than that, though, as there's no MAX function in sql that selects the greater of two operands).

http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/282007/mos...

Re: Most Down-Voted Stack Overflow Questions

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you declare a license for [2]?

I assume you meant the code. Please feel free to use it. It is hardly "mine" because it just contains putting up 'sklearn' functions together. In case that is not appropriate, what license do you suggest?

sure, just like everyone else's programs just use libc, python standard library, etc.

Which license? How about BSD or GPL?

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