Archive for October, 2007

 

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