Elimination of illiteracy and elitism
The opinion that the Internet makes people stupid and kills all the germs of education in them is no longer new. Many people associate the beginning of the decorated elitism and rejection of the simplified manner of communication and slang on the Web with the birth of the expression “ Eternal September ”. In 1993, the American Internet provider AOL began to provide access to Usenet networks to all its customers, thereby diluting the almost exclusively intelligent environment of their users with thousands of newbies who did not want and did not accept the rules of netiquette. The usual process of “debating” of newcomers, which had previously been held on Usenet every September, when freshmen arrived at the university dormitories, stretched out “forever.”
Representatives of the scientific and cultural elite express their discontent with the transformation of the Network into an incubator of limited individuals on a regular basis. The last notable statement on this issue was made by Doris Lessing, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. In her rather interesting reciprocal speech about awarding the award, Doris expressed the opinion that the Internet has made modern society fragmented, consisting of people who do not read, do not want to learn anything about the world and possess only highly specialized knowledge within their profession.
To the delight of Mrs. Lessing and her associates, a team of American scientists is developing a program that will bring an end, in their words, to the “tyranny of idiots.” “The solution we created is simple: an open-source filter that can detect unrestrained folly in written English,” they say .
StupidFilter , as the developers called their creation, is a system similar to spam filters. On the basis of calculating the Bayesian probability of “stupidity” of a phrase using manually created database of obviously stupid phrases, StupidFilter can, for example, automatically filter out senseless and grammatically awful comments in blogs and forums. For filling the base of "stupid" comments, YouTube was chosen, "an inexhaustible source of stupidity." See examples of those here . Now the database contains more than 225,000 records.
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True, the name “stupid”, with an inherent way of exaggerating the intellectual elite, is not entirely correct. According to the authors of the filter, he will not be able to identify grammatically correct, confirmed by cool-looking arguments, but frankly idiotic comments. But it is a pity, even though I am not an elitist.
The alpha version of the fighter against neo-Albanians and the generation of MySpace as a phenomenon should be released by the end of the month. After that, the field tests and finishing of the algorithms will begin.
Representatives of the scientific and cultural elite express their discontent with the transformation of the Network into an incubator of limited individuals on a regular basis. The last notable statement on this issue was made by Doris Lessing, who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. In her rather interesting reciprocal speech about awarding the award, Doris expressed the opinion that the Internet has made modern society fragmented, consisting of people who do not read, do not want to learn anything about the world and possess only highly specialized knowledge within their profession.
To the delight of Mrs. Lessing and her associates, a team of American scientists is developing a program that will bring an end, in their words, to the “tyranny of idiots.” “The solution we created is simple: an open-source filter that can detect unrestrained folly in written English,” they say .
StupidFilter , as the developers called their creation, is a system similar to spam filters. On the basis of calculating the Bayesian probability of “stupidity” of a phrase using manually created database of obviously stupid phrases, StupidFilter can, for example, automatically filter out senseless and grammatically awful comments in blogs and forums. For filling the base of "stupid" comments, YouTube was chosen, "an inexhaustible source of stupidity." See examples of those here . Now the database contains more than 225,000 records.
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True, the name “stupid”, with an inherent way of exaggerating the intellectual elite, is not entirely correct. According to the authors of the filter, he will not be able to identify grammatically correct, confirmed by cool-looking arguments, but frankly idiotic comments. But it is a pity, even though I am not an elitist.
The alpha version of the fighter against neo-Albanians and the generation of MySpace as a phenomenon should be released by the end of the month. After that, the field tests and finishing of the algorithms will begin.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/17389/
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