You'll enjoy this thread. Not quiiiite the same, but I "won" an undergraduate AI in-class competition to predict the closing price of eBay auctions. (Remember eBay? This was when dinosaurs ruled the earth and undergrads didn't have cell phones because why would you.) Algorithm:https://twitter.com/JanelleCShane/status/973637418225090560 …
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Do you remember if you followed RPL's instructions and scraped it in AWK? I don't remember using Nokigiri until later, but I remember using 'open-uri' for the eBay and poetry scrape.
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Yep, I did. Didn’t write my first Ruby until about 2008 or 2009.
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Had to dive for Perls in the CGI-BIN directory and all I got was this lousy logfile
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That's not really a concern if all you care about is the data. Generally speaking HTML is poorly written and not what you want. Why bother parsing it?
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On the other hand, at least we didn’t need to install nokogiri (which itself isn’t what the cool kids use. They probably need half a ton of Javascript, a headless browser, and a favourable wind)
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Well, many discoveries were made at random, with other intentions in mind, or by mistake.
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Nokogiri makes out teamcity build agents take 2 minutes longer to first run. On a 90 second build. :/ give me regex plz.
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