RE: Programming Diary #34: Your post now has a permanent payout window
As always, an interesting article from you :-)
In fact, in the little time I've been working on improving the trending algorithm, I've often thought that an AI could perhaps recognise very well whether a post is ‘trending’ or ‘hot’ based on certain parameters.
At the moment, I can only specify rigid parameters with certain weightings. How many replies were there, how many from different authors, how many votes, how many resteems, etc.?
But an AI could evaluate the actual post and include the text, as well as the conversation in the comments. In my opinion, that would achieve much better results.
Unfortunately, I don't have the time to look at your code at the moment. But if you could teach the AI to evaluate the posts and their comments in the sense mentioned, the upper limit of beneficiaries in Python would only be a minor problem.
I am curious!
Ugh... I started this from the perspective of handling new posts, so there would be no replies or resteems to worry about. I was happily ignoring those. But, you're right that this would be a good way to improve it for the historical posts. I'd probably need a better LLM model and a machine learning step in order to really do that well, but I'll start giving it some thought. I can probably make some progress by passing the replies through the free LLM. I am also starting to think that I might need to switch from a screening-only perspective to a screening + scoring approach for the pre-AI checks - as with the trending scores.
Thanks for the feedback!