I didn’t know /prog/ still existed. I used to post on world4ch back in the day (starting around 2005).
How is everyone doing? Is it still the same group of shitposters, or are you new?
If you were here from back in the day, just know that world4ch got me into programming, despite all the shitposting. Now I’m a software developer. Not that anyone cares.
I found this place by googling it because someone described it as a programming board more culturally related to /jp/ than /g/. I visited "4chans textboards" as I knew them a few times before but never hung around a lot.
The text board community is too fragmented as it is. Do we really need yet another site? There are currently like a dozen text boards with maybe a dozen regular posters. This will just further divide everyone.
And let’s not forget the fact that many of these sites come and go very quickly. And many fail to properly filter spam or moderate bad posts.
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Anonymous2018-04-17 17:15
>fail to properly filter spam or moderate bad posts.
I am thinking on experimenting with some machine learning here. That should be fun! The machine does not even need to know anything about the user, just flag some posts.
>>61 you can integrate spamassassin with your BBS software for good enough performance
spamassassin does naive Bayes classification which can learn from posts that were deleted by a the moderator
the nature of naive Bayes would make it extremely good at filtering repetitive shitposts—dubs checks, hax my anus, Mentifex, etc. of course it can't capture high level natural language semantics. for that you'd need some monstrous 20 GB neural net running on $10k worth of nvidia cards just to filter out Nikita Sadkov rants on your nonprofit BBS.
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Anonymous2018-04-17 19:59
>>66 Bayes classification? spamassassin? What year is it?
>>67 yeah I know what tensorflow is faggot. I use it at work daily. you use the right tool for the job. for a BBS that you're not making money from, you use the cheap stuff. spamassassin takes almost no memory and can run on a free t2.micro instance.
>>67 Why would I need that when I have my own SageMaker?
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Anonymous2018-04-18 6:24
>>66 but anus haxing, dubs checks and other repetitive memes are essentail to /prog culture!
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Anonymous2018-04-18 7:31
Group poasts by IP addresses or whatever. To determine whether a new poast is spam, calculate entropy of it, along with the five poasts, based on the number of distinct words and/of distinct letters.