SE Simulator
Languages and libraries
text generation
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
14 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 25 comments about the project. Thread score +0.44.
Execution: 10 for, 0 againstIdea: 3 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Markov chain output is surprisingly coherent and funny.
From 3 comments
I'm not going to lie, I started reading this thinking it was an example. I was very impressed as often Markov chain generated sentences break down after a common joining word.
reificator on HNMarkov chains are so much fun. They produce believable relevant text that ultimately makes no sense, which is basically a definition of comedy. And they're also super simple to…
Waterluvian on HNBeautiful. > Configure anonymous DDOS attacks on internal servers?
everdev on HN
Minimal design and small page size admired.
From 1 comment
>Please excuse the very minimal design, but after writing a lot of Single Page Applications I wanted to go the oposite way and write a website with less than 25KB. The world…
froindt on HN
Objections
Minimal design hides close button on iPhone SE.
From 1 comment
Is there supposed to be a close button on the yellowish popup? It's not on screen on my iphone se.
jeroen on HN
Setup instructions were initially missing.
From 1 comment
Really awesome that you shared the source code, I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to get it all working, though. Any chance you'll be including setup instructions?
jaytaylor on HN
Requests
Add setup instructions for running locally.
From 2 comments
You are right, that's the problem when trying to get something in the world quickly instead of doing proper documentation. But I'll write something together today and send you a…
Findus23 on HNI have now written a bit more on how to hopefully get this to run locally and how everything works here: https://github.com/Findus23/se-simulator#se-simulator
Findus23 on HN
Generate moderator responses from Stack Exchange.
From 1 comment
I'd like to see Stack Exchange moderator responses using Markov chains. Like "Stop answering this guy as he is posing useless questions", or "This duplicate is considered not…
chris_wot on HN
Questions
How well do Markov chains work in other languages?
From 1 comment
>Please excuse the very minimal design, but after writing a lot of Single Page Applications I wanted to go the oposite way and write a website with less than 25KB. The world…
froindt on HN
How does it compare to RNN models?
From 1 comment
I am curious how would those results compare with RNN models, such as ones in Andrej Karpathy's "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks"…
stared on HN
Alternatives named
RNN text generation (char-rnn style)
From 2 comments
I am curious how would those results compare with RNN models, such as ones in Andrej Karpathy's "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks"…
stared on HNInteresting. Yes, training takes way more time. In some really big projects like https://blog.openai.com/unsupervised-sentiment-neuron/ "We first trained a multiplicative LSTM…
stared on HN