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So... They found that the number of stars is autoregressive? What's the punchline?

• wyldfire 10y ago
  IIUC the utility is that github or someone could use the arrival of stars to predict which repos are likely to attract more future stars. This could be used for ranking up-and-coming new repos worth attention.
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  • xapata 10y ago
    From what I remember of reading the paper yesterday, they simply estimated the coefficient of various lag terms. That might help if you wanted to estimate how many stars a project will have next week (because of some prediction market?). For the task of predicting which projects will attract more stars, the fitted model is largely unnecessary -- more means more.
• hyperbovine 10y ago
  Have data; find paper.