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is there somewhere else where this convention is used? if the Id of the most recent post is an exponentially growing function of time then the time between any
by kurtosis 17y ago
is there somewhere else where this convention is used?
if the Id of the most recent post is an exponentially growing function of time then the time between any two posts should be proportional to the log of the ratio of their IDs.. so
shouldn't it be log(ID most recent / ID first post) ?
- davi 17y agoI made it up. But for exponentially growing ID, log(ID most recent / ID first post) is proportional to age of account & that's boring -- the nonlinearity is what makes the measure 'fun' (I use the term loosely). It agrees with some notion of the 'good old days' when Startup News was a fishbowl we could all look in on, and early HN participants were Founders not only of startups but also an online community. I agree though, there are probably more interesting measures one could come up with.