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Just deduct points from any article that uses these phrases: "... with this one weird trick..." "... you won't believe..." "... people are losing their minds

Just deduct points from any article that uses these phrases: "... with this one weird trick..." "... you won't believe..." "... people are losing their minds about..." "... mind blowing pictures of..." "... what happens next..."

criley2 10y ago
I say yellow flag any post with a single or double digit number that doesn't meet date, currency, or other known formats. Not sure how else to capture one of their favorite forms of clickbait * " ## X you should be Ying" * " ## ways to make X hate you" * " ## times X made us laugh" * " ## times X was almost too X" * " ## things that make X say, "that's me" * " The hardest ## rounds of X you'll ever play" * " ## ways X you is the best you" * " ## animals that will make you say X" * " ## memes you'll only get if you did X" * " ## people you forgot were on TV show X" Note: all of these were taken from today's Buzzfeed.com front page
- quotemstr 10y ago
  The beautiful thing about machine learning is that nobody needs to sit there and write these patterns. A system can learn from a training set much faster than you can write regular expressions and it can look at features of the text that never occur to you.
  - ionforce 10y ago
    But someone needs to make that training set.
  - Houshalter 10y ago
    Humans can design good features for the ML algorithm to use though. A simple naive bayes filter, for instance, would not be able to learn these complicated patterns on it's own.
    - quotemstr 10y ago
      > Humans can design good features for the ML algorithm to use though For now. Articles like [1] make me wonder whether this current generation of programmers might be the last. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04474 https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04474
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sotojuan 10y ago
And in HN: "X is dead", "Why we ditched X stack for Y stack", etc.
- btgeekboy 10y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful is my personal pet peeve.
  - Crespyl 10y ago
    TBH, Considered Harmful has taken on such a tongue-in-cheek life of its own that I almost don't even mind it anymore.
imh 10y ago
"...?" should have decent coverage.

criley2 10y ago

I say yellow flag any post with a single or double digit number that doesn't meet date, currency, or other known formats. Not sure how else to capture one of their favorite forms of clickbait * " ## X you should be Ying" * " ## ways to make X hate you" * " ## times X made us laugh" * " ## times X was almost too X" * " ## things that make X say, "that's me" * " The hardest ## rounds of X you'll ever play" * " ## ways X you is the best you" * " ## animals that will make you say X" * " ## memes you'll only get if you did X" * " ## people you forgot were on TV show X" Note: all of these were taken from today's Buzzfeed.com front page

quotemstr 10y ago
The beautiful thing about machine learning is that nobody needs to sit there and write these patterns. A system can learn from a training set much faster than you can write regular expressions and it can look at features of the text that never occur to you.
- ionforce 10y ago
  But someone needs to make that training set.
- Houshalter 10y ago
  Humans can design good features for the ML algorithm to use though. A simple naive bayes filter, for instance, would not be able to learn these complicated patterns on it's own.
  - quotemstr 10y ago
    > Humans can design good features for the ML algorithm to use though For now. Articles like [1] make me wonder whether this current generation of programmers might be the last. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04474 https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04474

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sotojuan 10y ago

And in HN: "X is dead", "Why we ditched X stack for Y stack", etc.

btgeekboy 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful is my personal pet peeve.
- Crespyl 10y ago
  TBH, Considered Harmful has taken on such a tongue-in-cheek life of its own that I almost don't even mind it anymore.

imh 10y ago

"...?" should have decent coverage.