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by verdverm 2715 days ago
Hmm, everything has negative sentiment for all time periods (only goes to one year)... Seems about right.

Is the previous year available? Have the algos overfit for negativity?

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Not yet. We haven't collected historical discussion data (prior to June 2018 for popular coins). But it's something I planned to do in the next few months.

I doubt the algorithm would overfit for negativity. The supervised portion is trained on unrelated datasets. When we collect historical data (e.g. late 2017), or when the market recovers, I can verify.

Generally seems that HN has become less interested / more skeptical of the cryptocurrency ecosystem. We still like the former crypto though!
That's true, unfortunately :) But there are still a lot of people consider bad market as an opportunity to build something useful / to experiment with their investment strategies.