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Discussion on: Digital Ocean Hackathon App: Dwindle

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Aleksandr Hovhannisyan

Cool idea! Best of luck :)

Will you be doing any machine learning for this? I'm curious how the app will determine what text to cut and what text to keep.

Looking forward to seeing the result!

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Alvaro Montoro

Thanks!

Initially, it won't have any machine learning. There will be a dictionary of words and their shortened versions, and it will a direct replacement.

As a stretch goal, I want to add the option for the user to view the replacement and pick if they want it or not, and that would give some data points to know if a replacement is good or not, and learn from that in order to (not) apply it in the future. It would be a basic thing.

What machine learning opportunities do you see in this app?

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Aleksandr Hovhannisyan

Cool! Yeah, no need to complicate things if you can keep it simple.

I don't know much about machine learning, but there's something called natural language processing (NLP) that may be relevant here.