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by gaika 18y ago
I guess nobody cares about digg any more, but imagine if they can make it work, and apply to comments too
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Digg: Recommendation Engine rolling out this week(blog.digg.com)
3 points by gaika 18y ago|1 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
yaprank page is long gone, if somebody still needs this info, please contact me.
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by gaika 18y ago
Ideally it should be a front page personalized for PG, and we all should share his experience :)
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by gaika 18y ago
It is both. Trust and recommendations are mixed together in an SVD like algorithm as described in http://sifter.org/~simon/journal/20061211.html . On top of that jaanix lets you adjust all your personal preferences in real-time. The bigge
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by gaika 18y ago
You can do one more step and build a recommendation system that tracks not only trust but individual preferences. Performace requirements are pretty steep for real-time recommender, but it is totally worth it. Oh, by the way, we have it imp
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Feedego, the smart information filter(feedego.com)
2 points by gaika 18y ago|0 comments
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New NoiseRiver App Adds Interest Filters to FriendFeed Stream(louisgray.com)
2 points by gaika 18y ago|0 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
What if t is not the age but the first time the story made it to front page? That way old links that suddenly gain popularity can bubble up one day. I've submitted some good stories only to find that they were posted a few days ago but were
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Google: we're having scaling issues, please stop distributing your FF extension(splitbrain.org)
99 points by gaika 18y ago|19 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
Exactly, I'm being irrational here too - I'm addressing your irrational self that would listen to the arguments of a stranger for no good reason :) Here's the kind of arguments I would find rational - http://www.amazon.com/Probability-Caus
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by gaika 18y ago
All the explanations you are talking about are very nice, and give you a lot of warm comfort, but they all are just rationalizations. There's not much you can predict about the rest of the world using them. The cold rationality lies in the
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by gaika 18y ago
Start paying attention and you will notice it all around you. Of course it is too simple to explain everything, but still pretty useful method.
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by gaika 18y ago
Some very good arguments of Science vs. Bayes: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/05/science-or-baye.html And explanations that people care about are just that what the link is all about - rationalization. Or in other words just because t
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by gaika 18y ago
Very common misconception - science as a process is rational, but scientists are people, and they fall for all the same traps. There are plenty important scientific discoveries accepted only after the generation change. Bayesian statistics
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Paul Buchheit: The first thing that you need to understand about humans(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
85 points by gaika 18y ago|31 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
You can open Hacker News in firefox sidebar for the same functionality :)
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Cats and Dogs - a one dimensional theory of character(logarithmic.net)
21 points by gaika 18y ago|10 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
Any game where some players are not perfect allows this kind of exploiting them - http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/rsbpc.html game theory still holds.
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by gaika 18y ago
digg
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by gaika 18y ago
I'm getting a different error with x86_64, but probably not protected against other bugs: (irb):3:in `[]=': failed to allocate memory (NoMemoryError) from (irb):3:in `irb_binding' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/workspace.rb:52:i
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by gaika 18y ago
Lolcats were #1 already - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=119807
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by gaika 18y ago
I'm already a little bit used to it. http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-06-20/ Privacy link is clicked a lot on my startup's page. People still care.
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by gaika 18y ago
yaml or thrift (binary)
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by gaika 18y ago
http://trends.google.com/websites?q=news.ycombinator.com&#38... 1. There's no absolute number of visitors 2. Also searched for "do if inside grill gets wet"
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The Underhanded C Contest - 2007 Winners(underhanded.xcott.com)
2 points by gaika 18y ago|0 comments
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by gaika 18y ago
Ironic, aren't you the one who posted a flash game the other day and it made to #1?
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by gaika 18y ago
My communication skills must be terrible, but I'm not asking anybody to leave. Hacker News is great, but it covers only small subset of all the news out there.
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by gaika 18y ago
How is it going to prevent spammers from sending athentication requests as spam? (*) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work: http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
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by gaika 18y ago
Sorry, I totally messed up this post, was too late to edit it. The link to the site in question is in my profile. Thanks.

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