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It may be fun for a few hours but reading clickbait headlines excessively is like eating vomit. I'm sure these people have quotas to meet so I doubt even more t
by themihai 10y ago
It may be fun for a few hours but reading clickbait headlines excessively is like eating vomit. I'm sure these people have quotas to meet so I doubt even more the "fun" element.
- lifeformed 10y agoIt would be fun designing a system that can automatically detect those headlines, using machine learning and whatever other tricks you can think of.
- rspeer 10y agoI have a heuristic that gets evaluated over time on randomly-sampled tweets. (It's the core of the Python "ftfy" package, which fixes Unicode mistakes based on a heuristic for whether text "looks right".) I frequently have to read the randomly-sampled tweets for debugging purposes. And, yes, random tweets are often so dumb that my brain slightly regrets the time it spent reading them. But that is far outweighed by the benefit that the Internet is delivering me fresh test data all the time. On the whole, I enjoy the notion that I am converting stupid babble into something somewhat useful.
- themihai 10y agoThat's different than reading randomly-sampled tweets or clickbait headlines all day long, is it? At FB(AFAIU) they have people doing just that which makes sense(to reduce costs) but it's a miserable job regardless the scope(i.e. to make more money for Facebook or help people who `friend` rough entities or both.)