The Saltiest Users on HN

Post by Kassius509 » Sun, Apr 21, 2019, 11:50 PM UTC

aetherson wrote: post #78

Kassius509 wrote: post #60

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Thanks for trying my app! And thank you for taking the time to respond! It does have a LONG way to go. These are valid criticisms. And all areas we are working to improve on with our next ML model. (Sad vs Negative, rating numbers as "salty", This model is pretty simple. It's using TextBlob and looking for a combination of negative sentiment (not necessarily condescending) and subjectivity. Essentially hand built heu…

No problem. By the way, another thing that seems like it maybe departs from the intuition of human-understanding of negative sentiment versus the machine scoring: I notice that almost all of the highly negatively rated comments that it's flagged -- both mine and others -- are relatively short. I know that there are multi-paragraph laments about how dumb other people are or whatever on HN. In general, those strike me…