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New-Age Bullshit Generator (sebpearce.com)
32 points by gwendolynregina 4457 days ago
9 comments
ivansavz 4457 days ago
Generally, I think of "software eating the world" as a bad thing, but in this case it's a good thing...

Take that Deepak! 100 lines of js and you've been automated away ;)

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lotsofmangos 4457 days ago
Reminds me of the twat-o-tron http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/the-twat-o...
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ldubinets 4457 days ago
This is amusing. Here's the original (at least, what I believe is the original) http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html
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jgeorge 4456 days ago
I need one of these for conspiracy theories, to prove a point to a colleague that one of his OTT conspiracy theory friends is nothing but a bad AI construct...
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atheriel 4457 days ago
This is totally brilliant -- nice find.
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hiphopyo 4457 days ago
Reminds me of my writing before I discovered The Elements of Style by Strunk and White.
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saraid216 4457 days ago
It's done in Javascript, but would still be nice to throw this on Github. :P
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m3rc 4457 days ago
"You may not realize it, but we are all cosmic."
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bkurtz13 4457 days ago
Is this using a Markov chain?
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the_cat_kittles 4457 days ago
It's a PCA boosted hidden markov model using sparse regression trees to map into infinite gradient boosted dimensional kernel space, pruned with C5 LOESS zero one loss function and L2 regularization parameter implemented in SVM.

...someone should make a bullshit generator for ML models

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theandrewbailey 4457 days ago
That's a good suggestion. I got about 15 words into that before my buzzword alarm activated, and thought I was being taken on another ride.
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