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Exploring Possibility Space
Personal blog · exploringpossibilityspace.blogspot.comdatascience
Exploring Possibility Space is a personal blog at exploringpossibilityspace.blogspot.com about data and science. Since 2016, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts arguing that the failure of Microsoft's Tay Twitter bot was a software QA problem, citing a reused open source AIML library (ALICE) and its "repeat after me" rule.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Musings on risk, innovation, data science, and my PhD dissertation
What Hacker News says?
See: http://exploringpossibilityspace.blogspot.com/2016/03/micros...
Comment linking /2016/03/microsoft-tayfail-smoking-gun-alice.html
on “Poor Software QA Is Root Cause of TAY-Fail (Microsoft's AI Twitter Bot)”- ot · 2016-03-26
Submitted Poor Software QA Is Root Cause of TAY-Fail (Microsoft's AI Twitter Bot) as a story · 40 points
HN discussion OP here. I just added another blog post with additional evidence that this was a QA problem, specifically related to an open source library (ALICE) and the AIML rules they reused and modified. http://exploringpossibilityspace.blogspot.com/2016/03/micros...
Comment linking /2016/03/microsoft-tayfail-smoking-gun-alice.html
on “Poor Software QA Is Root Cause of TAY-Fail (Microsoft's AI Twitter Bot)”Submitted A 12 Year Quest – My Story as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI just wrote a follow-up post giving more evidence: http://exploringpossibilityspace.blogspot.com/2016/03/micros... I call it "poor software QA" because, generally, the software QA process is supposed to detect and prevent defects from 1) being introduced in the first place; and 2) from being propagated into "production" versions. As my most recent post shows, the "repeat after me" rule was a legacy of a software li…
Comment linking /2016/03/microsoft-tayfail-smoking-gun-alice.html
on “Poor Software QA Is Root Cause of TAY-Fail (Microsoft's AI Twitter Bot)”