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About: http://www.srl.inf.ethz.ch/jsnice.php

Apparently this is a machine learning research project.

It seems that this would be quite useful for looking at the code of closed-source webapps. Would love to see it open-sourced or available as a service (via an API perhaps). Think auto-deminifying browser extension.

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On average, more than 60% of the identifiers are recovered to the same name as before the minification process.

I wonder how much of that 60% comes from common libraries like jQuery or Underscore. Still, a neat project.

We tried to evaluate on data that is as much as possible independent from the training data. So we evaluate on projects outside of github.

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