I did not cheat, and many of the names could be real (I swear I saw some that were actually titles of real articles, but in fact were bot-generated) - I'm not sure what makes me tell a real title out of a fake one in these situations. On other situations though, it's very easy (grammar makes no sense, there are odd amounts of quotes, etc.), but in my experience these tend to be a minority.
Actually, I find it funny that in my experience, most titles that could be of real, interesting hacks fitting well in the spirit of HN, are the bot generated ones, and the most political/controversial titles (which often you'll see discussed on many places other than HN) are the real ones.
Edit: I wish there was an easy way to record your session, so that later you can analyze each title more carefully and do some math on which options you "upvoted".
It seems that every time I selected the correct one was because the bot-generated title did not make sense or had some other obvious error, for example:
> Apache releases first major new version of cancer drug
or
> "Algorithm" is not a language worth learning
Although when both titles made sense it was actually quite difficult to successfully pick which one was the bot.
Another example of no matter how much HN headlines change, they still stay the same. :|
Scored 12/20... this bot is good!
However, a lot of the headlines sound like I've read them, even so even if the bot is generating new titles for old stories by itself, it's using the same keywords as the original titles, so it ends up confusing me a bit...
There seems to be something wrong -- after 90 times (with 80 correct :) ), it started just putting blank options on both of them, and not returning any results for right or wrong.
It's a game. "upvote" doesn't mean "give a real upvote", it means "select". You're given two article headlines. One is real, from HN. The other is bot generated. You have to select the real one.
I know this is just a fun game, but do you do any double-checking to make sure the bot isn't overfitted and "generating" a fake title that is actually real?
I did not cheat, and many of the names could be real (I swear I saw some that were actually titles of real articles, but in fact were bot-generated) - I'm not sure what makes me tell a real title out of a fake one in these situations. On other situations though, it's very easy (grammar makes no sense, there are odd amounts of quotes, etc.), but in my experience these tend to be a minority.
Actually, I find it funny that in my experience, most titles that could be of real, interesting hacks fitting well in the spirit of HN, are the bot generated ones, and the most political/controversial titles (which often you'll see discussed on many places other than HN) are the real ones.
Edit: I wish there was an easy way to record your session, so that later you can analyze each title more carefully and do some math on which options you "upvoted".