"Relevant xkcd" is a meme that's been a part of online communities for as long as the comic has had online notoriety. [2] I wanted to build a bot to see how true that was. I've got a lot of the hard parts completed (data collection / curation, initial models), sitting in my TODO box for quite some time and would love to pair up with a collaborator to get it across the finish line.
The idea is an automatic xkcd recommendation bot that takes advantage of the latest and greatest in NLP advances (a fine-tuned hugging face model). [3] I've already got the training data (reddit comments that mention "relevant xkcd") and each individual xkcd's notes from the xkcd wiki. [4, 5]
Feel free to reach out to me via email (in my bio).
[1] https://github.com/adithyabsk/relevant_xkcd
[2] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/xkcd
[3] https://huggingface.co/models
[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/bigquery/comments/3cej2b/17_billion...