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Wikipedia – Elon Musk more popular than Sex
- powera 4y ago... reading about Elon Musk is more popular than reading about sex.
- PaulHoule 4y agoI think it's funny because last night I built models to predict: (1) the probability that a headline gets more than 5 comments on HN, and (2) the probability that a headline gets more than 16 votes. Both of these have a similar probability of happening. The model is a very simple logistic regression/bag of words model and it gets what I would usually call an awful ROC-AUC of 60%, off-the-cuff I'd say 1 article in 500 has a predicted probability of 30% of hitting it big. Anyway three of the keywords that most strongly predict than article will not hit it big on HN are "Biden", "Elon" and "Musk". (But it says that "Richard Stallman has died" has a 70% or so chance of success... and those of you who are concerned about politically bias should know that my crawler has sucked down 2020-mid 2022 data so far so there isn't as much "Trump" in there as "Biden".) I'm not so sure what my model thinks you think about sex, I'm going to have to go home and ask it.