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For international women's day I decided to write a open source script I'll share with the world.

It will scan your friends list and make a record of everyone that posts a positive female message on women's day. On international men's day it does the same. It then compares everyone on your list and if someone posts on one day and not the other they will automatically get unfriended. Leaving only friends who either posted about neither events or both.

It will be a sort of automatically sexist filter. Best part it will retroactively look through historic Facebook posts and detect anyone you've already been friends with for at least a year (or however long you set it too).

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@freemo I'd say that it should scan the couple of days after too, just in case the person couldn't that day but then finally gets back to his/her senses.

How could we go for the "positive" part of the post, though?

@arteteco I agree, scan a few days out in either direction.

The positive part is easy, well for me, its pretty much what I do for a living, this kind of algo.

Basically the simplest but very effect design would be a class of Naive Classifier called a Bayes Classified. They are really good at categorizing positive or negative tones and there are large examples of starter datasets to train off of.

Of course the script would ideally provide the option for the user to see the results and change the automated determination. Probably would have to add white lists to make it really be useful.

@freemo I've read you for months now, and I still don't know what the hell you do for a living actually =D

A whitelist is surely useful, especially if we can set some parameters (like, people in the groups "friends" or "despised but needed", like a doctor)

Also an automatic notification to the blocked contacts, so they can hate themselves for being such jerks.

Ah, so many cool ideas here on the fediverse... <3

@arteteco @freemo Freemo is a wizard. He tried to be a pinball wizard for a while, but decided that code wizard pays better. The only trade off was the fantastic rock opera opportunity he gave up in changing wizarding majors.

@Surasanji
That actually makes a lot of sense... he breaths underwater, he seems to always be in different places every week like teleporting, he builds weird stuff... and I remember those videos where he was shooting fire balls with his dutch friends!

@freemo

@arteteco Haha: Math, Software, Hardware, in that order :) I work with advanced math specific to algorithms, machine learning, statistics, and a few other obscurities with an educational background in all of that plus biology and Organic chemistry...

I branched out a lot in my education and career.

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