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Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network by blauditore on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:45AM (#21523408)
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

Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network by blauditore on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @07:49AM (#21523439)
"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

Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network by bencollier49 on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:00AM (#21523521)
sohpisticated ?
Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network by thaumasiotes on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:24AM (#21523680)
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 by kdmccormick on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:53AM (#21523964)
Is it within the problem domain? Yes.

Is it interesting for this project? Based on my skimming of the README, probably not. I don't think it handles misspellings intelligently.

Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network by fredsanford on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @09:14AM (#21524246)
>> "I plan to rewrite Linux in Rust - Linus Torvalds" <<

Maybe it's sohpisticated because Linus is going to RIIR?

Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network by dsr_ on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:18AM (#21523642)
deoxyribonucleic cloned asynchronously

Bad: 0.0001 - Good: 0.9999

Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:40AM (#21523804)
So that's a neural network thing? If the input is 'word space' it trains to detect buzzwords?

I'm honestly interested - do we hobble our neural networks with our choice of training space? If for instance, the HN-NN-input space including 'prepositions and word-frequency statistics', would the network train for sentence sophistication? Just because those stats were in front of it?

Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network by MiroF on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:59AM (#21524061)
The neural network used here is very weak, it's not going to do much better than word correlations.
Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network by uwydr on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:06AM (#21523557)
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?
Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network by thaumasiotes on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:26AM (#21523697)
> 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...

Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network by staticautomatic on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:15AM (#21523620)
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 by reallydontask on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:08AM (#21523580)
isn't that orthogonal to the discussion?
Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network by vectorEQ on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:38AM (#21523783)
i'm orthogonally inclined to disagree, but mainly because i'm sitting on a chair
Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network by MiroF on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @09:25AM (#21524392)
> Have you ever seen that word anywhere else?

Unfortunately far too often both in tech and in CS academia (and I'm talking about informal conversations ie. this is an 'orthogonal idea')