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I found this part of the about page interesting: > Originally, I wanted to predict the number of upvotes and views questions would get (which, intuitively, I t
by duckerude 8y ago
I found this part of the about page interesting:
> Originally, I wanted to predict the number of upvotes and views questions would get (which, intuitively, I thought would be a good proxy for their quality). Unfortunately, after working on this for about a week straight I've come to the conclusion that there is no correlation between question content and upvotes/views.
> I tried several different models (including adapting an AWD_LSTM classifier, a random forest on a bag of words, and using Google's AutoML) and none of them produced anything better than random noise.
> I also tried using myself as a "human classifier" and given two random questions from StackOverflow I can't predict which one will be more popular.