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Neville Parksometimes you see a piece of code so beautiful you simply must commit it to physical media in the most elegant way you know
Putting aside the sheer absurdity of a multibillion-dollar machine learning company using regex to do sentiment analysis, an actual legit application for machine learning, it is so fantastically inefficiently written. Every time I wrote this out (like 2ยฝ times) I see something new and horrible, and I'm not even what you'd call a regex wizard. Like, why wtf|wth and not wt(f|h)? Why are "horrible" and "awful" in there twice? Why fuck you|screw (this|you) and not (screw|fuck) (this|(yo)?u) ((bull)?shit|crap)? But there is no use trying to understand it because there is no thought or intention behind it. Simply a mindless word generator that got tossed at a problem again and again until the droppings accreted into something that worked well enough.
edit: AND ANOTHER THING, why not have, like, a case-insensitive flag or something rather than converting it to lower case?
wohali@nev i agree with you, but
i authored a system that used regex for sentiment analysis in english language pathology reports. we achieved an incredibly high sensitivity and specificity (precision and recall) and i'm really proud of the work
i think because of the very narrow problem space, and the ways in which pathologists tended to hedge their bets on diagnoses that might or might not be cancer, it was more straightforward.
i'd never attempt to use it writ large like this.
@wohali yeah, I don't think regex for sentiment analysis is an inherently terrible idea! I would think it a pretty clever, cheap solution in most other situations. It's just absurd when it's 1) an actual ML company that has basically unlimited resources to throw at the problem and 2) a tool actively used by tons and tons of people around the world.
Christian Kent ๐๐ :๏ผผ๏นฅ
mhoye@mhoye it's not quite up to my standards
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Granny Art (Shrimp) (Joni)@nev Did you do the calligraphy? This is a work of art.
@artcollisions yes i did, thank you
katherine
David Bremner@welshpixie this seems to relate to your interests: swearing and calligraphy @nev
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myrmepropagandisttitle: "please don't be mean to me"
@nev
"so frustrating" really gets me
"so frustrating" really gets me
@futurebird i wonder if this is based on stuff people actually typed in. i have definitely typed "no YOU'RE a bad command or file name" into a prompt many times, but never "this is so frustrating"
"this is so frustrating" was me. you know, teacher talk... but where is "I am disappointed" ?
AlisonW โฟ๐ณ๏ธโ๐โพ๏ธ@nev
Good to see that "screw them" is acceptable ๐
Good to see that "screw them" is acceptable ๐
glowing taterly@nev A thing of beauty
Curioso ๐ ๐บ๐ฆ (jgg)Wow. The depth and quality of bleeding edge AI code is staggering.
Makes me want to cry.
A really amazing feat.
Paul ๅคๅคฎ Kishimoto@nev this almost suggests poetry. Could one write a poem or text that matches every branch of the regex in the words it uses to describe the regex's creators?
Eric Jennings */3this is beautiful. i would publish it in my Lit Journal as visual poetry. pay is modest, only $20, but you'd be famous (to a few dozen people)