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This could be amazing as input to a question answering engine.

by tspike 11y ago

aluhut 11y ago
I would love to feed my megahal with that.
douche 11y ago
I think Reddit was one of the places they had to wall off Watson from data-mining, because it devolved into foul-mouthed memes. I wish they hadn't, nothing would be better than a billion dollar piece of technology deciding to reenact Sean Connery Jeopardy skits, on Jeopardy. [2001 HAL voice]: I have a question about the penis mightier. Does it work?
- ilyaeck 11y ago
  It's not the hard to filter put the foul-mouthed content
  - chiph 11y ago
    But what about phrases with double meanings (aka: Fun With English): Children make nutritious snacks
    - ilyaeck 11y ago
      Not necessarily an issue in the grand scheme of things.
Houshalter 11y ago
I actually built an IRC bot that did this once. It searched reddit for your question, took the first result, and posted the top comment. It worked very well for certain kinds of questions. Especially if it came from the better subreddits like askscience, but even just reddit in general. I improved on it a lot with a whitelist of subreddits and some machine learning to select the best thread. But I was only touching on what is possible with that data. The scope of the discussions on reddit is huge. Despite a lot of jokes in the comments here, the quality of the comments on average, is pretty decent. And the metadata like subreddit and score are extremely useful for filtering it down more.
- ilyaeck 11y ago
  I'd be very interested to learn more about your project and findings. Is that bot still alive?
  - Houshalter 11y ago
    I turned it back on for the time being. It can be found at irc.snoonet.org at #mybots https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.snoonet.org/mybots https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.snoonet.org/mybots EDIT: Reddit changed their api, give me a moment to fix it. EDIT2: It works now!
    - ilyaeck 11y ago
      AMAbot - is that the one?
      - Houshalter 11y ago
        Yes. It automatically replies to anything you say in the chat on that channel.
- bl4ckdu5t 11y ago
  If it's open source I'll love to take a look
  - Houshalter 11y ago
    I pastebined the code. It's terrible. I should rewrite it. But here it is: http://pastebin.com/CM9u17jq http://pastebin.com/CM9u17jq
    - jetpm 11y ago
      Nice, I see you use neural networks, can you explain a bit how you are training them?
      - 11y ago

This could be amazing as input to a question answering engine.

by tspike 11y ago

This could be amazing as input to a question answering engine.

aluhut 11y ago

I would love to feed my megahal with that.

douche 11y ago

I think Reddit was one of the places they had to wall off Watson from data-mining, because it devolved into foul-mouthed memes. I wish they hadn't, nothing would be better than a billion dollar piece of technology deciding to reenact Sean Connery Jeopardy skits, on Jeopardy. [2001 HAL voice]: I have a question about the penis mightier. Does it work?

ilyaeck 11y ago
It's not the hard to filter put the foul-mouthed content
- chiph 11y ago
  But what about phrases with double meanings (aka: Fun With English): Children make nutritious snacks
  - ilyaeck 11y ago
    Not necessarily an issue in the grand scheme of things.

Houshalter 11y ago

I actually built an IRC bot that did this once. It searched reddit for your question, took the first result, and posted the top comment. It worked very well for certain kinds of questions. Especially if it came from the better subreddits like askscience, but even just reddit in general. I improved on it a lot with a whitelist of subreddits and some machine learning to select the best thread. But I was only touching on what is possible with that data. The scope of the discussions on reddit is huge. Despite a lot of jokes in the comments here, the quality of the comments on average, is pretty decent. And the metadata like subreddit and score are extremely useful for filtering it down more.

ilyaeck 11y ago
I'd be very interested to learn more about your project and findings. Is that bot still alive?
- Houshalter 11y ago
  I turned it back on for the time being. It can be found at irc.snoonet.org at #mybots https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.snoonet.org/mybots https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.snoonet.org/mybots EDIT: Reddit changed their api, give me a moment to fix it. EDIT2: It works now!
  - ilyaeck 11y ago
    AMAbot - is that the one?
    - Houshalter 11y ago
      Yes. It automatically replies to anything you say in the chat on that channel.
bl4ckdu5t 11y ago
If it's open source I'll love to take a look
- Houshalter 11y ago
  I pastebined the code. It's terrible. I should rewrite it. But here it is: http://pastebin.com/CM9u17jq http://pastebin.com/CM9u17jq
  - jetpm 11y ago
    Nice, I see you use neural networks, can you explain a bit how you are training them?
    - 11y ago