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Some datascientist out there should crunch the numbers and give us the probability that an XKCD link will appear in any given HN post. I bet it's fairly close t
by toyg 3y ago
Some datascientist out there should crunch the numbers and give us the probability that an XKCD link will appear in any given HN post. I bet it's fairly close to 1.
One day we will have an "XKCD number", to represent how far from an XKCD reference any existing concept is.
- chaboud 3y agoMaybe the useful XKCD number would be the proportion of comments before and after the first XKCD reference? There’s also the “true XKCD percentage”, which could exceed 1 for highly XKCD’d topics.
- toyg 3y ago> the useful XKCD number would be the proportion of comments before and after the first XKCD reference That would be XKCD velocity, I guess.
- ploum 3y agoVelocity is indeed a nice idea. According to XKCD’s law, the probability to have an xkcd reference is proportional to the number of comments (see https://ploum.net/xkcds-law/index.html https://ploum.net/xkcds-law/index.html ) But adding velocity is really nice. Should think more about it…
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- amenghra 3y agoI don't consider myself a datascientist but I did some HN x XKCD analysis a while ago. The HN dataset is hosted on Google BigQuery and it is included in some TB per month of free tier processing you get. I.e. you can answer your question quite easily. See my stuff if you are interested: https://www.quaxio.com/hackernews_xkcd_citations/ https://www.quaxio.com/hackernews_xkcd_citations/
- gavinhoward 3y agoGreat post! You should submit a Hacker News post for it!
- amenghra 3y agoFeel free to resubmit it on a slow news day -- my submissions tend to fizzle out.