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I'm not sure if you're mocking me or giving me too much credit here.. Really I was hoping to be more rigorous and go more in depth but at some point it just fel
by matstc 19y ago
I'm not sure if you're mocking me or giving me too much credit here..
Really I was hoping to be more rigorous and go more in depth but at some point it just felt silly to hammer a website, scrape the page and never have access to the whole data. Doing this got me thinking about issues like "time of day" though as there must be a way to take into account the rate of new posts and make old posts more 'sticky' when the rate accelerates, in the morning for instance.
I feel like starting my own social news website just to have a play with different algorithms!
- edw519 19y ago"I'm not sure if you're mocking me or giving me too much credit here." Neither, I'm sure. (Funny. lately when I get sarcastic here, people think I'm serious, and when I'm serious, people think I'm joking. I guess I need a little more practice writing to strangers.) Scatter diagrams are one of the greatest underrated ways of conveying information in a heartbeat. You've done a great job of it. You've also opened up a can of worms. There are so many ways to look at this data, you can keep yourself busy for quite a while. I suspect that won't be a problem, considering how much you already care about this. Keep up the good work and keep us posted.
- matstc 19y agoSarcasm is hard to convey in writing. We used to have smileys to help us but they are going out of fashion. We're gonna have to stop being sarcastic :)