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201  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Bounties (Altcoins) / Re: DESCROW Bounty Campaign on: December 10, 2017, 11:00:07 PM
Can you update the Avatar entry in the campaign table from 'no' to 'yes'?

I just entered today but it took a minute to find an Avatar. 

202  Other / Meta / Re: Turning your post history into word clouds! on: December 10, 2017, 07:45:31 PM
I am all about open source.  Note the end of the first post!  Smiley
I mean,putting the code on Github but anyway,I get your point.


Not sure we will ever know the ultimate goal, but the direction I am going in involves the use of data mining and visualization (visual data mining) to model and detect shilling within product review sets, forum threads, and so on.  Visualization is a means of doing this, and the techniques I hope to use go well beyond word clouds.  Word clouds visualize surface level information and can be rather insightful but there are many great techniques which work at the level of meaning.  Currently working with sentiment analysis and emotion detection.  When shilling occurs we see certain patterns of sentiment. (posted a toy project a few weeks ago somewhere visualizing shilling)

So yeah, shitpost modeling. Smiley
Don't ML make an integral part of it along with data mining ? Honestly,this isn't as easy as it looks like.I'm pretty sure complexity will keep on increasing as the project progresses.


Sure I will open a github for this project. 

Increasing complexity is our friend.  As long as we recenter often.  Increasing improvement, increasing complexity, and every now and then a shakedown and paradigm change.
Machine learning and data mining go hand in hand.  I like decision tree ensembles!  And don't forget I am doing this for fun.   And I do have a graduate degree in this stuff. (data mining with a focus on visualization and natural language processing) Tongue  
203  Other / Meta / Re: Turning your post history into word clouds! on: December 10, 2017, 07:22:33 PM
Interesting !

The first thing that comes to my mind is,why don't you open-source such projects ? We all can work on it together ! Having said that,this could be transformed into a useful tool that helps us find out shitposters in a way.Looking forward to your ultimate goal.Cheers.

I am all about open source.  Note the end of the first post!  Smiley

Not sure we will ever know the ultimate goal, but the direction I am going in involves the use of data mining and visualization (visual data mining) to model and detect shilling within product review sets, forum threads, and so on.  Visualization is a means of doing this, and the techniques I hope to use go well beyond word clouds.  Word clouds visualize surface level information and can be rather insightful but there are many great techniques which work at the level of meaning.  Currently working with sentiment analysis and emotion detection.  When shilling occurs we see certain patterns of sentiment. (posted a toy project a few weeks ago somewhere visualizing shilling)

So yeah, shitpost modeling. Smiley

Other than that my goal is to finding constructive ways of meeting signature campaign requirements.  I like to meet the requirements but feel bad when not being productive or contributing.  Things like this help me constructively contribute while meeting my needs.
204  Other / Meta / Re: Turning your post history into word clouds! on: December 10, 2017, 06:43:21 PM
This is for user apoorvlathey.  Please let me know one thing you would change about the word clouds! 



205  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: CryptoKitties live and NovaBlitz on it's way - how many other games on Eth? on: December 10, 2017, 05:02:31 PM
These games are one of the best things to happen to Eth.

The sooner we push it to the limit the sooner we will see rapid adaption and evolution!

More Crypto Fuzzballs!  More NovaBlitz!
206  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Bounties (Altcoins) / Re: DESCROW Bounty Campaign on: December 10, 2017, 04:58:17 PM
Hey.   I joined the signature bounty hoping to get in the last week or two.

When are the weekly cutoff times?  Anyone know how long this will run?

Also:  Where is the Avatar pic?  I noticed no one here has one and it is not listed..
207  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Bounties (Altcoins) / Re: [BOUNTY] [ICO]🔶 Spectre.ai (SPEC) 🔶: Speculative Tokenized Trading Exchange🔶 on: December 10, 2017, 04:38:50 PM
Thanks again Sylon!  Well managed and well done campaign yet again!

If anyone hears of another Sylon campaign starting this month let me know!  Gonna go over to Descrow for awhile but don't know the manager.
208  Other / Meta / Re: What are we going to do about the Shitposters? on: December 09, 2017, 08:46:02 PM
A hurdle right now is that I don't have much labeled data.   If we could somehow come up with a list of shitposters
Vod has recently started making a red list. The only problem with this is that they'll abandon the tagged account and create the next one.

It would be used for training a classifier to detect and predict unknowns.

They would have to find out what identifies them as shitposter and change behavior rather than change accounts.  A cat and mouse game can actually start where adversaries try to trick classifiers and classifiers adapt and even anticipate these changes.
209  Other / Meta / Re: What are we going to do about the Shitposters? on: December 09, 2017, 08:08:02 PM
Doing some projects involving 'shilling' detection.  Little toy projects.

Not that it would establish a litmus test for shitposters but data mining and data visualization might leads to fun and fruitful new approaches to modeling and detecting shitposts and shitposters.

A hurdle right now is that I don't have much labeled data.   If we could somehow come up with a list of shitposters and a list of legit peeps then I could do all sorts of finger waving magical data mining sorcery.

*hopeful*

210  Other / Meta / Re: Turning your post history into word clouds! on: December 09, 2017, 07:15:57 PM
It's kinda cool to see my own work like this!

Now, some comments:
  • Post 1 = Post 21, Post 2 = Post 22, and so on. I think your scraper fails to reach the second page in post history.
  • My Post 25 is missing entirely.
  • You should exclude quotes, Post 2 for instance shows _Arnold_, which is the name of the person I quoted.
  • Some of the small fonts are impossible to read. If you limit it to 4x5 images, they can be a bit bigger without getting wider, and it fixes my first comment at the same time.
  • Post 12 shows AMSo, I can't see that in my original post.

I am totally on it.  Was excited to see the intial pieces come together.  It also should order them the reverse direction.

I will look into the problems, mine did 25 but yeah I think my number of posts per page counter is off.

Thanks for the input.  The fastest way to develop neat software is iteratively with constant user feedback in my book.
211  Other / Meta / Re: Turning your post history into word clouds! on: December 09, 2017, 06:19:25 PM
I'll bite, do me please: ID 459836.

Yes! 

Rewriting it a bit to make it look nicer.  Also parsing dates so I can show word clouds for given data ranges such as a weekly word cloud.  I will play around and have yours sometime today.

Just wrote the darn script so there is a lot of room for improvement.   Lets see what we can find out about you using text visualization.

Got another program which detects emotions in text that we used to process novels.  Might color code by emotion, or add emoticons indicating the emotion!  Unemployed right now so pardon the excitement over little things.  Projects keep me going.
212  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: I want to make friends with developers & learn on: December 09, 2017, 05:57:29 PM
I want to make friends with developers and learn how to program a blockchain. I don't want to just learn  how to program smart contracts.  I want to learn everything necessary to understand the most robust blockchain/distributed-ledger technologies.
Does anyone know a good book to pick up? I have a long history of web development/javascript. I've had a really hard time searching for this.
I need to learn because I have a unique idea I want to implement on a dead coin.

you don't need much knowledge to start your own coin it is extremely easy. there are a lot of good tutorials around, it generally only involves a little copy and pasting so why would you use a dead coin when you can just make your own one so easily? Just google it there are so many tutorials on youtube, i made one just for fun the other day but it was a token on the eth platform not a coin. Took me around 10minutes to make.
WoW!! Do you have links handy?

Forking a codebase and even running the coin may not be very difficult - but depending on the codebase adding new 'unique' features is going to be considerably harder.

Even though you probably wouldn't want to go with Python there is a great 'build a blockchain' tutorial.  https://hackernoon.com/learn-blockchains-by-building-one-117428612f46

It is a fun tutorial and exposes you to many of the basic ideas. 

It will also depend on the idea you have.  Any chance you will share it for feedback?  The last thing I want is to steal your idea (I got three great coin ideas myself just need to someday develop them).  Just want to give some feedback and maybe point you in the right direction.
213  Other / Meta / Re: Turning your post history into word clouds! on: December 09, 2017, 04:46:27 PM
No bites?  *shrugs*

Probably shouldn't post at 1 in the AM.

I would love some examples of known shills and non-shills that I can visualize.  These are just word clouds and not very useful and there are a number of other techniques which are more useful.  Like plotting shifts of sentiment. 

BTW there is a really neat Kaggle contest going on where you are given a collection of story snippets and their authors (it was a Halloween contest and focuses on spooky authors like Poe) for training and the goal is to build a classifier that can correctly match unlabeled snippets with their authors.
214  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: I have lost hope in ETHEREUM - Pending transaction won't complete on: December 09, 2017, 09:55:06 AM
Growing pains.

If everyone lost hope every time the early internet was extremely lagged or went down then we might not be talking to each other online in this way.

It does suck that your money is in limbo and hope you get it out soon but please be patient and hold on to hope.

Qiwoman.. now that is a name I haven't heard since the good of Poloniex trollbox days!  You make your riches yet?
215  Other / Meta / Turning your post history into word clouds! on: December 09, 2017, 09:49:12 AM
Wrote a little script that generates word clouds for a user's last 25 posts.

Each post gets a word cloud but I could easily change it to generate one for each week, month, whatever.

This is a tiny part of a hopefull larger project approaching shilling analysis and detection.  Later versions may calculate and make use of sentiment.

Here are my last 25!  If you want me to do one send your user id.  Any requests for special formatting or additional features may or may not be granted so feel free to ask.  The python script is included at the end of this post so you can do it yourself as well though I just wrote it so like most code it could use some refactoring.



Code:
import requests
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from wordcloud import WordCloud
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import time

def processPostsPage(pageNumber, userId):
    
    #grab the next page of posts
    pageUrl = "https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=" + str(userId) + ";sa=showPosts;start="+str(pageNumber*20)
    response = requests.get(pageUrl)
    data = response.content  
    
    #grab divs with the 'post' attribute
    soup = BeautifulSoup(data)
    postsOnPage = soup.findAll("div", { "class" : "post" })
    
    #return an array of word clouds
    wordCloudsForPageOfPosts = []
    
    count = 1;
    
    stopwords = ["post","posts"]
    
    #convert posts to wordcloud images
    for div in postsOnPage:
    
        text = div.get_text()
        
        #remove the stopwords with a little magic
        text = " ".join([word for word in text.split() if word not in stopwords])
        
        nextCloud = WordCloud().generate(text)
        
        wordCloudsForPageOfPosts.append(nextCloud)
        
        count = count+1
        
    return wordCloudsForPageOfPosts
 

def buildPlot(userId, numberOfPosts):
    width = 25
    height = 15
    fig = plt.figure(figsize=(width,height))

    
    currentPage = 1
    
    count = 0
    
    while(count <= numberOfPosts):
        
        #sleep in between grabbing pages of posts for a stress free bitcointalk crawl
        time.sleep(1)
        
        #grab the clouds for that page
        clouds = processPostsPage(currentPage,userId)
        
        #display the clouds until we reach the right number
        for cloud in clouds:
            count = count+1
            if(count < numberOfPosts):
                a = fig.add_subplot(5,5,count)
                
                #hack to delete tick marks
                for a in fig.get_axes():
                    a.set_xticks([])
                    a.set_yticks([])
                a.set_title("Post " + str(count))
                plt.imshow(cloud)
            
            
userID = 249526
numberOfPostToDisplay = 25
buildPlot(userID, numberOfPostToDisplay)
plt.show()
216  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: I want to make friends with developers & learn on: December 09, 2017, 08:06:27 AM
Yup.  I would totally love to join a project with competent developers looking to mentor entry and mid level budding young software engineers.

I would even do an unpaid internship for the opportunity.  Yes, it would only cost a team their time and patience.  It would probably pay out pretty good for them too as I am not that bad of a developer.

For some reason the couple teams I have reached out to said they would keep it in mind but were not looking for new devs.

One thing we could do is find open source projects, study them on our own (kind of what I do now), and try to build something or resolve some issue and present it to them.  You have to figure out what they need done on your own though.  Mangement, collaboration, and an organized system of task allocation would be awesome.
217  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: DCORP Venture Capitalism on: December 09, 2017, 03:42:42 AM
Since I finally caved in and joined the Telegram, is there anything people on BCT would like us to ask the developers?  We could compile a list.



I am on their Telegram too, but I find it really difficult to have to scroll insane amount to get answers among all other messages. Two key questions from me:
1. Whats the timeline for the platform to be in production?
2. When will the website be updated to show some news/progress?

I asked if we are still on for a December release of the VC platform and they said they are not expecting any delays.  So sometime this month.

Not going to ask the second one, if the platform is released this month the website will be updated.
2nd question has the same answer.

https://us10.campaign-archive.com/?u=be7fe07e359e8aa8f29f7000d&id=76ee563e4f

As you can see, it is currently dated for 18th of December.

https://us10.campaign-archive.com/?u=be7fe07e359e8aa8f29f7000d&id=76ee563e4f
As I can see, DPR were supposed to be traded by 27th of November, but no sellers yet!

How long time did the team spend on the roadmap?

I bought some just the other week so clearly there are buyers and sellers.

I am not sure how long they spent on the roadmap but they are saying there are not planned delays.  We will see how things turn out on mid december with the VC platform is reached.  I am hoping for competent development.
218  Other / Meta / Re: Signature campaigns and long sentences on: December 09, 2017, 02:57:48 AM
It does'nt matter how long atleast what is the required characters of the campaign, constructive and not redundant and meaningful post,can help the signatures to campaign it.Deeply think the idea before you post.

I definitely appreciate this attitude.

I am not approaching this from a 'how should' approach but more of a scientific 'how do' approach.
 
The theory that involvement in signature campaigns can have an impact on writing style can generate testable hypothesis.  Right now I just have my own posting history and can analyze that but I am confident that statistical tests will show a difference in things like sentence length, number of adjectives, etc.

Like to examine and study things.  Not approving or disapproving.

Trying to put my money where my mouth is and writing scripts to analyze post histories.  It takes time though but am more than happy to show results.
219  Other / Meta / Re: Signature campaigns and long sentences on: December 08, 2017, 04:43:30 AM
Does anyone else find they are speaking in longer sentences and making longer posts since taking part in signature campaigns?

Many require 80 character posts so I find I have been writing posts which are longer than I normally would.

I would love to analyze user data involving posts before and after joining a campaign to test my hypothesis. (would also be neat to plot post sentiment)

A sentence can already contain 100 character so even I am on signature campaign I just make a post that is necessary in the discussion. I rather choose not to reach a sig campaign post requirement than being banned due to poor quality post though.

As long as you have something to say it can be good.  I was just joking earlier with the previous comment where I was redundant.  

It can help prod a user to elaborate, think deeper, and communicate more when posting.  Almost always I can find enough to communicate to meet my limit.  Though sometimes it is hard to elaborate when communicating something simple and direct.  Sometimes I don't meet the length requirements even.

Overall though I am communicating more and this effect has passed over to other social media outlets.
220  Other / Meta / Re: Signature campaigns and long sentences on: December 07, 2017, 07:09:23 PM
No shit. They need to pad their posts with redundancy (like you) so they can get those sweet, sweet, bounties.

Hey now, I don't pad my posts with redundancy in order to get my sweet, sweet, sweet bounties!  I wouldn't write things twice just for that.  I don't do that sort of thing.  I just don't.  Padding my posts...  I mean, come on? 
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