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Thanks to the HN comments which assured that it is important. Otherwise after reading the first sentence and processing it with standard sensational filtering r

Thanks to the HN comments which assured that it is important. Otherwise after reading the first sentence and processing it with standard sensational filtering regex of my brain, I wouldn't have proceeded forward. "In a [stunning|amazing] discovery that overturns [years|decades|centuries] of [textbook teaching|beliefs|research] [researchers|scientists] at the <XYZ Lab> have discovered that the <PQR premise> holds false."

degenerate 11y ago
Haha, I never thought of what a regex match would look like for headlines, that's pretty damn hilarious :)
- seanp2k2 11y ago
  I'd think you'd have better luck using bayes with some clever stemming / tokenization :)
WalterSear 11y ago
"Medical scientists hate it!"
Mahn 11y ago
Pointless weekend project idea: A service that scans articles for matching regexes to classify the level of bullshit of what you are reading. It could even be a browser extension with the bullshit indicator automatically shown for each page in its icon.
- BurningFrog 11y ago
  Neural network!
- deleted 11y ago
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- slowmovintarget 11y ago
  http://www.blablameter.com/index.php http://www.blablameter.com/index.php (Article has an index of 0.14 -- not BS)
- nkozyra 11y ago
  This just requires some NLP to identify obvious hyperbole. In fact, you could probably just watch HN for long enough, establish some training data and have this happen somewhat automatically for you in the browser.
  - foxhedgehog 11y ago
    upvoted this, big N
  - nitrogen 11y ago
    Basically a spam filter trained on news instead of email. I like it. Could we get SpamAssassin to do this? (Does it still exist?)
- eterm 11y ago
  http://www.quackometer.net/ http://www.quackometer.net/ edit to add: Not mine, just a site I used to know about that fit this description.
  - cholantesh 11y ago
    Ran it on this(http://www.naturalnews.com/049944_vegetable_oil_omega-3_pesticides.html http://www.naturalnews.com/049944_vegetable_oil_omega-3_pest...) NN article and it's still processing 20 minutes later. I'd like to think it's breaking whatever scale is being applied to it, but it's most likely the connection speed in my office. :P

degenerate 11y ago

Haha, I never thought of what a regex match would look like for headlines, that's pretty damn hilarious :)

seanp2k2 11y ago
I'd think you'd have better luck using bayes with some clever stemming / tokenization :)

WalterSear 11y ago

"Medical scientists hate it!"

Mahn 11y ago

Pointless weekend project idea: A service that scans articles for matching regexes to classify the level of bullshit of what you are reading. It could even be a browser extension with the bullshit indicator automatically shown for each page in its icon.

BurningFrog 11y ago
Neural network!
deleted 11y ago
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slowmovintarget 11y ago
http://www.blablameter.com/index.php http://www.blablameter.com/index.php (Article has an index of 0.14 -- not BS)
nkozyra 11y ago
This just requires some NLP to identify obvious hyperbole. In fact, you could probably just watch HN for long enough, establish some training data and have this happen somewhat automatically for you in the browser.
- foxhedgehog 11y ago
  upvoted this, big N
- nitrogen 11y ago
  Basically a spam filter trained on news instead of email. I like it. Could we get SpamAssassin to do this? (Does it still exist?)
eterm 11y ago
http://www.quackometer.net/ http://www.quackometer.net/ edit to add: Not mine, just a site I used to know about that fit this description.
- cholantesh 11y ago
  Ran it on this(http://www.naturalnews.com/049944_vegetable_oil_omega-3_pesticides.html http://www.naturalnews.com/049944_vegetable_oil_omega-3_pest...) NN article and it's still processing 20 minutes later. I'd like to think it's breaking whatever scale is being applied to it, but it's most likely the connection speed in my office. :P