Eradication of illiteracy and elitism

    The opinion that the Internet makes people dumber and kills all the germs of education in them is no longer new. The beginning of formalized elitism and the rejection of the simplified manner of communication and slang on the Web is widely accepted to be associated with the birth of the expression “ Eternal September ”. In 1993, the American Internet service provider AOL began to provide access to Usenet networks to all its customers, thereby diluting the almost exclusively intelligent environment of their users with thousands of newcomers who did not want and did not accept the rules of network etiquette. The usual process of "decriminalizing" newcomers, which until then had been held at Usenet every September, when freshmen arrived at university dormitories, stretched out "forever."

    Doris LessingRepresentatives of the scientific and cultural elite express their dissatisfaction with the transformation of the Network into an incubator of limited personalities regularly. The last significant statement on the matter made by Doris Lessing ( by Doris Lessing ), which received the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. In her rather interesting response to the presentation of the award, Doris expressed the opinion that the Internet has made modern society fragmented, consisting of people who do not read anything, do not want to learn anything about the world and possess only highly specialized knowledge within their profession.

    To the delight of Mrs. Lessing and her associates, a team of American scientists is developing a program that will bring an end, in their expression, "tyranny of idiots." “The solution we created is simple: an open software filter that can detect rampant stupidity in written English,” they say .

    Stupidfilter, as the developers called their offspring, it is a system similar to spam filters. Based on the calculation of the Bayesian probability of “stupidity” of a particular phrase using a manually created database of obviously stupid phrases, StupidFilter will be able, for example, to automatically filter out meaningless and grammatically terrible comments in blogs and forums. To fill the database of "stupid" comments, YouTube was chosen, "an inexhaustible source of stupidity." See examples of such here . The database now contains more than 225,000 records.

    True, the name "stupid", with a characteristic intellectual elite in an exaggerated manner, was not chosen correctly. By the authors of the filter’s own admission, it will not be able to identify grammatically correct, confirmed by cool looking arguments, but frankly idiotic comments. But it's a pity, even though I'm not an elitist.

    The alpha version of the fighter against neo-Albanians and the MySpace generation as a phenomenon should be released by the end of the month. After that, field trials and finishing of the algorithms will begin.

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