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I'm completely out of the loop on something like this, but could you in theory apply some kind of ML to identify the end of pages to assist with good page captu

• PaulHoule 5y ago
  Probably. Certainly the more you spent on it the better you could do. At the time I was most bothered by the slow load times of web pages and blaming this phenomenon: https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/samplemax4.htm https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/samplemax4.htm particularly that if you take the max of N random variables, the expectation value you get gets worse as N increases -- that is, the page isn't done loading until the slowest http request completes. So I saw the "knowing when the page is done" problem as being particularly core, and it would be if the goal was to "win the race" against a conventional web browser. If you were (say) preloading all the links submitted to hacker news you might be able to tolerate the system taking 5 minutes to process an incoming page. (See archive.is) Today I've noticed that sites like Wired are giving up on complaining about my anti-track and ad-blocker and they just load the page partially which would drive me crazy if I was serious about debugging.