Re:The Benefits of Talking to Yourself
by JasonSage on Thursday June 08, 2017 @08:45PM
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This makes me wonder what the bounce rate for Stack Overflow questions is and what percent of visitors actually make it through the submission process.
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This would actually be an answerable question, because of SO's draft mechanism.
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https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/296990/what-are-the...
I've been thinking along the same lines for a very long time. Thanks for the inspiration to finally ask!
They've responded to questions like that before.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/5y9l9n/showerthou...
Ooooh, nice one. Thanks for the link!
That's awesome!
If they have a big enough database of half-typed-then-abandoned questions, do you think it would be possible to train an RNN (or something) to read a post in progress and predict at what point the answer should be obvious to you?
Re:The Benefits of Talking to Yourself
by wingerlang on Friday June 09, 2017 @04:03AM
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Not the same, but while writing the title it suggest other posts.
I seem to recall something similar which does pattern matching comparing the code that you're typing with a database of code in accepted stackoverflow answers and gives "smart autocomplete". Not sure how I stand on the overall impact of such a thing but technically it was cool. :)