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Guess the Correlation

49 points by fluctuation 6y ago

zck 6y ago
I got a 92! Pretty neat to look at. It might also be interesting to see actual correlations between things. Seeing that a particular graph is 0.75 correlated is interesting, sure, but it might be more revealing that a particular graph is as correlated as, say, proportion of citizens in a country with college degrees and Nobel Prizes.
mkaic 6y ago
I got 102 with a mean error of .1 :)
DangitBobby 6y ago
This was fun, I actually got really good after a while (187 with no end in sight).
dang 6y ago
If curious see also 2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11095840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11095840 plus a bit at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001659 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001659
- fluctuation 6y ago
  Oh! I should have searched it before posting.
  - dang 6y ago
    Not at all! reposts are ok after a year: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. These links to past threads are just for readers who like to read past threads.
wodenokoto 6y ago
To me it felt like the R numbers was all over the place.
roastbeef2 6y ago
interesting graphics, +1 to the author, do you use a specific library?
- fluctuation 6y ago
  Sorry I don't know as I am not the author. I found the game on twitter and posted here. Omar Wagih is the author (https://twitter.com/omarwagih https://twitter.com/omarwagih)
deathanatos 6y ago
Did someone XSS the scoreboard? Going there takes me to YouTube, to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
- davidsojevic 6y ago
  Yep, definitely looks that way -- there's a username of: <script>window.location.href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ'</script> With a high score that will clearly top any legitimate score from a player: 1.7976931348623157e+308
  - Gunax 6y ago
    Wow, and I thought the author was just a prankser. I suppose this is the cost of posting to HN.
infogulch 6y ago
I seem to either get within either 0.01 or else more than 0.15, no in between. I wish it showed me more information about which ones I miss most.
ImaCake 6y ago
I tried to share this on facebook and it didn't let me beacause it thinks it is spam! I guess the URL is the victim of false positives in a hashing algorithm. Better than the alternative I suppose. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter

49 points by fluctuation 6y ago

zck 6y ago

I got a 92! Pretty neat to look at. It might also be interesting to see actual correlations between things. Seeing that a particular graph is 0.75 correlated is interesting, sure, but it might be more revealing that a particular graph is as correlated as, say, proportion of citizens in a country with college degrees and Nobel Prizes.

mkaic 6y ago

I got 102 with a mean error of .1 :)

DangitBobby 6y ago

This was fun, I actually got really good after a while (187 with no end in sight).

dang 6y ago

If curious see also 2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11095840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11095840 plus a bit at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001659 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001659

fluctuation 6y ago
Oh! I should have searched it before posting.
- dang 6y ago
  Not at all! reposts are ok after a year: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. These links to past threads are just for readers who like to read past threads.

wodenokoto 6y ago

To me it felt like the R numbers was all over the place.

roastbeef2 6y ago

interesting graphics, +1 to the author, do you use a specific library?

fluctuation 6y ago
Sorry I don't know as I am not the author. I found the game on twitter and posted here. Omar Wagih is the author (https://twitter.com/omarwagih https://twitter.com/omarwagih)

deathanatos 6y ago

Did someone XSS the scoreboard? Going there takes me to YouTube, to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

davidsojevic 6y ago
Yep, definitely looks that way -- there's a username of: <script>window.location.href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ'</script> With a high score that will clearly top any legitimate score from a player: 1.7976931348623157e+308
- Gunax 6y ago
  Wow, and I thought the author was just a prankser. I suppose this is the cost of posting to HN.

infogulch 6y ago

I seem to either get within either 0.01 or else more than 0.15, no in between. I wish it showed me more information about which ones I miss most.

ImaCake 6y ago

I tried to share this on facebook and it didn't let me beacause it thinks it is spam! I guess the URL is the victim of false positives in a hashing algorithm. Better than the alternative I suppose. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter