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A bit off topic but I'd love to see a sort of ML/AI feature where "related discussions" can be added automatically for added context, I appreciate you do this m
by aboringusername 5y ago
A bit off topic but I'd love to see a sort of ML/AI feature where "related discussions" can be added automatically for added context, I appreciate you do this manually and I find it very useful to get more of an idea of the relevance/importance of a topic!
(Maybe even a "HN search found 3 possibly related threads")
- throwaway3699 5y agoWhy would that need ML? PageRank has worked for ages for this problem.
- teraflop 5y agoI'm not sure what you think PageRank is, but it doesn't produce links between documents as output; it requires them as input.
- sweetdreamerit 5y agoI would consider PageRank as a quite successful example of machine learning. Am I wrong?
- warlog 5y agoIt started out that way, anyway.
- xnx 5y agoThe definition of what counts as ML/AI can be fuzzy, but I don't think the original PageRank algorithm would qualify as ML/AI under any definition: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
- dang 5y agoThe goal with those 'related' lists is to get something more meaningful and interesting than HN Search results (which are pretty good already). That's a high enough bar that it takes judgment and taste to know what to include. For sure we want to get beyond "mods do it manually" as the strategy. I'm not averse to trying out an ML/AI approach—the nice thing is that all the relevant data is public, so anyone could build it and we could all try it out. But my personal inclination is to build something that would rely more on the community.