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Some time ago I had a hunch that karma followed a powerlaw, so I mapped the leaderboard out in excel - and sure enough it looked exactly like a powerlaw graph.
by mixmax 17y ago
Some time ago I had a hunch that karma followed a powerlaw, so I mapped the leaderboard out in excel - and sure enough it looked exactly like a powerlaw graph.
- Bluem00 17y agoThe curve I fit to the leader board is, karma = 25343 * rank^(-.465) Which has an R-squared value of 0.9791. Unfortunately, this isn't a good enough fit to meaningfully extrapolate very far.