O internet: entertain me

[trochee]

I am bored and distracted by some painful and possibly unnecessary drama, and I am unable to pay attention to anything for very long.

Thus I post meaningless thoughts and silliness, and record for my own future use possible good clever terrible ideas.

For example: I think it would be entertaining to use support vector machines or a maximum entropy model to try to automatically learn ratings on Hot or Not -- it's fairly easy to do data gathering, and extracting features from the photograph (and ideally the text profile too!) is a matter of standard photo processing.

Comments

[evan.livejournal.com]

i like it! the hard part is getting access to the data.

[trochee.livejournal.com]

you'd just need to bot-vote. Which wouldn't really be fair, since you're corrupting the actual data.

hmmm...

[bwb-archive.livejournal.com]

That's really hot. Can I vote for you?

[trochee.livejournal.com]

hey now, you don't think I'd be the kind of person to start a relationship based on some internet communication and a few friends in common, do you?

[bwb-archive.livejournal.com]

Yes, definitely. Oh, wait I mean no.

It's no, isn't it?

[trochee.livejournal.com]

well, I do appear to have done so.

ah internet. Why is there no sarcasm punctuation mark?

[bwb-archive.livejournal.com]

Damn, I knew it was yes! I'm no good at these quiz things. I freeze up, I tell you... start second guessing myself. It's all a global conspiracy.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Wait... that makes me that kind of person too...
Er... I would vote for you too ! And I am not bias at all ( *inserts symbol for sarcasm here*)

[trochee.livejournal.com]

heh -- you broke the threading! see the little "reply to this" links? use 'em!

and of course you're that kind of person. You take risks based on what you know -- and honestly, with LJ, there's lots of information about the person you're gambling on, because they (okay, he) is living in a community that you can examine more closely. And in your own private space, you can ask yourself -- is this somebody I like? Is this someone I can trust? How much?

I'm pleased that you decided to take the risk. I hope you continue to feel it was worthwhile.