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Best xkcd

67 points by antitoxic 1y ago

wonger_ 1y ago
Aka "crowdsourcing a stack ranking of xkcds," or just the page title, "which one is the best xkcd?" Found a lot of gems I've never seen before
Neywiny 1y ago
Not sure what methodology they're using for analysis. Maybe just total wins? But there are better methods I've discussed on here before. I'm partial and biased towards using the choices as a sorting algorithm, but you can also do elo scoring like competitive chess and some video games
MathMonkeyMan 1y ago
At the bottom is <https://xkcd.com/1654/ https://xkcd.com/1654/>, which is actually pretty funny.
- caminanteblanco 1y ago
  It should really be ; instead of & though, otherwise the first failed install method will stop the rest of the script from executing
  - jonathrg 1y ago
    That's && & runs the thing in the background. So this is running all the commands in parallel.
    - caminanteblanco 1y ago
      You're completely right, sometimes I feel like Bash syntax is as impenetrable as regex.
      - brianpan 1y ago
        I found this interesting: https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal/ https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal/
7373737373 1y ago
This might be a good use case for https://trueskill.org/ https://trueskill.org/ since that takes into account what the rating of the other comic was when one is chosen over the other, it also gives an uncertainty value for each rating
- crazygringo 1y ago
  It shouldn't change the mean though, with enough data. In gaming, people often play against others closer to their skill, so you have to take that into account. But with the comics, they're being chosen randomly so there's no bias like that to correct for. Also people's assessment of the comparison comic is so noisy, knowing its rating probably won't help that much. Uncertainty is key for deciding on the top ranking, but you can just use the standard formula for that.
crazygringo 1y ago
> This site was created in the early months of 2011 Top comic: > This comic beat 10 other comics and was beaten by 1 other comic for a total score of 0.9091. Guess this site never got too popular...
ProAm 1y ago
No, I will not be a constant in your algorthim

67 points by antitoxic 1y ago

Aka "crowdsourcing a stack ranking of xkcds," or just the page title, "which one is the best xkcd?" Found a lot of gems I've never seen before

Neywiny 1y ago

Not sure what methodology they're using for analysis. Maybe just total wins? But there are better methods I've discussed on here before. I'm partial and biased towards using the choices as a sorting algorithm, but you can also do elo scoring like competitive chess and some video games

MathMonkeyMan 1y ago

At the bottom is <https://xkcd.com/1654/ https://xkcd.com/1654/>, which is actually pretty funny.

caminanteblanco 1y ago
It should really be ; instead of & though, otherwise the first failed install method will stop the rest of the script from executing
- jonathrg 1y ago
  That's && & runs the thing in the background. So this is running all the commands in parallel.
  - caminanteblanco 1y ago
    You're completely right, sometimes I feel like Bash syntax is as impenetrable as regex.
    - brianpan 1y ago
      I found this interesting: https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal/ https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal/

7373737373 1y ago

This might be a good use case for https://trueskill.org/ https://trueskill.org/ since that takes into account what the rating of the other comic was when one is chosen over the other, it also gives an uncertainty value for each rating

crazygringo 1y ago
It shouldn't change the mean though, with enough data. In gaming, people often play against others closer to their skill, so you have to take that into account. But with the comics, they're being chosen randomly so there's no bias like that to correct for. Also people's assessment of the comparison comic is so noisy, knowing its rating probably won't help that much. Uncertainty is key for deciding on the top ranking, but you can just use the standard formula for that.

crazygringo 1y ago

> This site was created in the early months of 2011 Top comic: > This comic beat 10 other comics and was beaten by 1 other comic for a total score of 0.9091. Guess this site never got too popular...

ProAm 1y ago

No, I will not be a constant in your algorthim