Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories

Re:Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories by kwhitefoot on Friday February 18, 2022 @03:42AM (#30383454)

Could machine learning could help with this? Could some algorithm be created to strip the padding from such articles just leaving the useful stuff?

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Re:Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories by Avalaxy on Friday February 18, 2022 @05:35AM (#30384145)

Yes. See https://smmry.com/https://www.science.org/content/article/sc... for example.

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Re:Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories by kwhitefoot on Saturday February 19, 2022 @04:35AM (#30395708)

Thank you! Works very well.

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Re:Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories by fbanon on Friday February 18, 2022 @07:38AM (#30384974)

I would expect machine learning to be more useful in generating this kind of fluff.

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Re:Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories by bodge5000 on Friday February 18, 2022 @03:55AM (#30383529)

Seems like a lot of work (and a lot of time to get working reliably) for a relatively minor issue that can be mostly fixed by skim reading

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Re:Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories by jeffreygoesto on Friday February 18, 2022 @03:52AM (#30383508)

No.

If you want this to change, change the source, don't patch cargo cult on top.

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Re:Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories by Avalaxy on Friday February 18, 2022 @05:35AM (#30384144)

You're wrong, it is very well possible with algorithms, and it has been a thing for many years already. For example check the Auto TLDR bot for Reddit. Here's an example of what it could look like for the article posted here: https://smmry.com/https://www.science.org/content/article/sc...

It's not even hard to do, you mostly have to count token frequencies which is hardly machine learning. Although you could also do it with BERT.

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