You say that jokingly, but spam filters would probably work if someone was willing to slog through the digg front page long enough to build up a decent set of training data.
lisp? you mean arc good sir.
I'm not sure how effective a bayesian filter would be at classifying news stories as interesting/non-interesting though. Has anyone tried this?
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Except a Bayesian cat-picture filter written in Lisp!
You say that jokingly, but spam filters would probably work if someone was willing to slog through the digg front page long enough to build up a decent set of training data.
lisp? you mean arc good sir. I'm not sure how effective a bayesian filter would be at classifying news stories as interesting/non-interesting though. Has anyone tried this?
Yes, it looks like pg built something to recognize good/bad stories:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=213951
Arc is a Lisp.