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   by morelandjs 9y ago

   One method to partially rectify the problem you mention is to add additional preprocessing to the text to identify ngrams and add part of speech tags to words. For example [The, river, bank] might be restructed as [The, river bank (bigram)]
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   by morelandjs 9y ago

   I'm going out on a limb here because I'm not familiar with page range, but yes you could use our margin-dependent Elo model to rank items. Classic Elo: A user visits a page and is shown a picture of two different types of Hallowee
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   by morelandjs 9y ago

   I didn't know about this, thanks. In the paper (long read I know), I use a modified quantile-quantile test to demonstrate that my predicted uncertainties are accurate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%E2%80%93Q_plot
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   by morelandjs 9y ago

   I agree this is a critical feature that Elo ratings omit. Elo ratings are transitive, i.e. if I know the probability that A beats B and the probability that B beats C, then I know the probability that A beats C. It's almost certainly t
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   Predicting outcomes for games of skill by redefining what it means to win(arxiv.org)

   63 points by morelandjs 9y ago|18 comments