Archive for the 'stupidfilter' Category

 

StupidFilter Beta Released!

Jul 22, 2008 in stupidfilter, code

The Press Release.
The Demo.

Please test it out and let me know what you think.

WSJ article

Mar 24, 2008 in stupidfilter

Here.

The Joy of CRM114

Dec 27, 2007 in stupidfilter, code

Is it *really* necessary to implement a text classifier as a Turing-complete programming language? With declensional syntax? WHY GOD WHY

BBC interview

Nov 17, 2007 in stupidfilter

Just posted here [mp3 download 11MB]. My interview starts at about 7:40.

ROFLcon

Nov 14, 2007 in stupidfilter

We’ve been invited to ROFLcon. We are so there.

Media Blitz 3: Rise Of The Machines

Nov 12, 2007 in stupidfilter

So, Fox Business News wants to do a live interview with me on “Money For Breakfast” sometime this week.

What the hell should I wear?

Media Blitz 2: Electric Bugaloo

Nov 07, 2007 in stupidfilter

The Fortune magazine article just posted. BBC interview is scheduled for Thursday morning.

Media Blitz

Oct 26, 2007 in stupidfilter

First, Fortune Magazine, now the BBC wants to interview me regarding StupidFilter. More information as soon as I’ve got the interview set up.

Crazy.

StupidFilter Status

Oct 11, 2007 in stupidfilter

Done:

  • Now have a pretty huge MySQL database full of stupid comments, mostly from Youtube225441 rows in set (1.21 sec)
  • Implemented a web-based comment ranking system to seed the stupidity corpus
  • Tracking moderator history, comment rankings, dropping spam and unusable comments
  • Recruited the celebrated Paul Starr, incomparable Jess, esteemed Sparky, lovely wife Lexi, and [your name here, apply within] to serve as Moderators Extraordinaire

To-Do:

  • Hit a minimum of 2,000 usable comments ranked
  • Train Bayesian classifier on seed corpus
  • Fine-tune filter, begin self-training database using seed data
  • Test filter on real world data, tune filter, rinse, repeat
  • Implement a web front end for the Bayesian classifier for demonstration purposes