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On Editing Text (Operational Transforms from Category Theory)
- ColinWright 13y agoNice to see this resurface - I hope it gets as much attention as last time, perhaps even more now that HN has a larger community.
- tel 13y agoLast time I read this I didn't have nearly enough Category Theory beneath me to get the last half, but now I can read it as a very general way to generate OT-systems for practically arbitrary "transformation" categories. I don't know if that means I better understand pushouts or better understand OT.
- ColinWright 13y agoLooking at how this item has fared, it's clear that something or someone has penalised it[0]. Shame, really, that a genuine technical article has fallen off the front page like that. [0] http://hnrankings.info/7706293/ http://hnrankings.info/7706293/
- tel 13y agoOh, interesting. I never realized that was a property of voting.
- ColinWright 13y agoI don't understand what you mean. An item's ranking is a combination of it's points, time, and any penalties that get applied. If people flag it then it gets penalised, or if the mods decide for some reason to apply a penalty then it gets pushed down in the rankings. Getting votes makes it more likely that an item will make it to the front page. Does that make sense? There are plenty of write-ups about how the ranking system works if you want to know more. Or email - details in my profile.
- tel 13y agoSorry, I was vague. I didn't realize there was a penalty system that flagging or modding could invoke. I had never investigated it and always assumed that if a post was flagged then it'd just be removed from HN. In retrospect the system makes sense as is, but I'd just never considered it.
- glifchits 13y ago+1 for a perfectly cromulent article
- mamcx 13y agoI wonder: This could be usefull for compiling code?