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Ahh, I see they left out Erlang.
by dantheman 16y ago
Ahh, I see they left out Erlang.
- riffer 16y agoGood point, in the case of Erlang it wasn't a picking favorites thing, so much as for whatever reason Erlang was not particularly well represented in the corpus of 25k comments that we grabbed from the site.
- Vivtek 16y agoHonestly - if a particular technical topic is mentioned less that arguably makes it more geeky.
- dman 16y agoOn the topic of things being left out - does anyone have ideas on how to automate the process of finding seed terms for a given topic ?
- Sukotto 16y agoWell, if I were doing it, I would search for words and short phrases that have their own Wikipedia pages. Give more weight to those whose pages contain a lot of text, have inline images, or have particularly contentious editing/reverting/meta-talk. Likewise search for those same words and phrases in Google. Weight searches with fewer results more heavily.
- dman 16y agoThanks for the wikipedia suggestion - will try that one out. I am unclear about the terms of use for google search and if we can make use of search results in our tool.
- Vivtek 16y agoUnfortunately, early design phases made the assumption that geekiness would max at 100. Erlang violated that assumption, being 117% geeky, causing the score calculation to dump core. It was deemed safest simply to drop Erlang from the corpus.
- iuguy 16y agoAnd ASM. All the cool kids write web apps in x86, except for the really cool 6502 kids in the corner.