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   Show HN: The Best of Coursera from 1.9M Reddit upvotes(reddsera.com)

   1 points by yaj54 6y ago|0 comments
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   by yaj54 6y ago

   Hey HN, Here's my latest project in the category of "ranking things based on social signals". It looks at all (url-based) posts and comment mentions of Coursera courses on Reddit, ranks each course based on Reddit score, and
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   Show HN: Reddsera.com – The top Coursera courses recommended on Reddit(reddsera.com)

   4 points by yaj54 6y ago|1 comments
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   by yaj54 7y ago

   I'm completely new to this acronym but I'm grokking orient as "account for your bayesian priors."
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   by yaj54 7y ago

   Thanks! Most of the videos are embedded -- for example: https://yahnd.com/theater/r/vimeo/36579366/ Simple Made Easy is not embedded because it looked to me like embeds were against InfoQ's TOS. Or
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   by yaj54 7y ago

   Hey HN -- I made this site to give myself a steady stream of intriguing videos (mostly talks) to watch. I'm partial to the monthly ranking [0] as I find that many of those videos hit my personal threshold of "worth watching"
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   Show HN: HN Theater – Talks and Videos of Hacker News(yahnd.com)

   106 points by yaj54 7y ago|8 comments
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   by yaj54 7y ago

   Hi all, This is a project I’ve been working on that extracts references to talks and videos in the stories and comments of Hacker News. I’ve extracted about 207,000 references to 95,000 unique(ish) videos. The videos are then scored using a
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   Show HN: All videos posted to HN – ranked, indexed, and displayed with comments(yahnd.com)

   3 points by yaj54 7y ago|1 comments
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    by yaj54 7y ago

    Hi all, This is a project I’ve been working on that extracts references to talks and videos in the stories and comments of Hacker News. I’ve extracted about 207,000 references to 95,000 unique(ish) videos. The videos are then scored using
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    Show HN: HN Theater – The Best Talks and Videos of Hacker News(yahnd.com)

    6 points by yaj54 7y ago|1 comments
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    by yaj54 7y ago

    A drone ant is a (fertile, male) flying ant.
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    by yaj54 7y ago

    Tech-related I've been learning Postgres recently. Postgres had some features that MySQL lacked that I wanted to use in some projects. I didn't initially expect it, but in addition to now knowing basic Postgres, it has improved m
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    by yaj54 8y ago

    About the ranking algorithms: "techyaks": Primarily uses signals from stories and comments on Hacker News, with some youtube signals thrown in. This is effectively a "best talks according to hacker news" ranking. "
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    (Some of) the best technical talks of 2018, ranked algorithmically(techyaks.com)

    2 points by yaj54 8y ago|1 comments
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    by yaj54 8y ago

    Indeed. Categories where there are authoritative urls are the low hanging fruit. A previous related work of mine is TechYaks [0], which ranks software tech talks using (among other signals) HN recommends. I have another one in the pipe...
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    by yaj54 8y ago

    I do, on every course page. Big grey box.
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    by yaj54 8y ago

    I'll need to take the fast.ai course first so that I can upgrade my course-extraction-from-text code from regexes to deep learning. ;-)
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    by yaj54 8y ago

    Ick, that is a bug. Mind sending me details on your browser setup? yaj@the-domain-of-the-linked-story.
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    by yaj54 8y ago

    I mostly agree. However, the rankings surface the "most recommended" courses not the "best". "Most recommended" being more objective (easier turn into a number) than "best". Udacity is the 3rd most r
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    by yaj54 8y ago

    Hey HN, Check out HN.Academy and let me know what you think. It's the result of mining the HN archives for references to online courses and then ranking them and displaying all references in one place. Ranking currently takes into acc
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    Show HN: HN.Academy – Top online courses recommended by Hacker News users(hn.academy)

    773 points by yaj54 8y ago|85 comments
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    by yaj54 8y ago

    Final approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGD_YF64Nwk&t=54m10s
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    by yaj54 8y ago

    The top 5 most referenced tech talks on HN are: - Douglas Engelbart - The Mother of All Demos - Bryan Cantrill - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos - Guy Steele - Growing a Language - David Heinemeier Hansson - Startup School 08
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    by yaj54 8y ago

    Title could be: "single page with [THE FULL ARTICLE TEXT OF] the top 30 stories" Feature-wise this is great, it's like an auto-inlined Safari reader version of all the articles. Unfortunately re-publishing other people's
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    by yaj54 8y ago

    Interesting, I like the simplicity of that. Do you have any info how to determine good initial values for the prior? In this example good values for pretend_up and pretend_down? Would it make sense to use average_upvotes and average_down
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    by yaj54 8y ago

    It is currently, but I'd like it not to be. One issue is my current ranking alg uses both likes and dislikes, but Vimeo only does likes, so I can't currently cross-compare between youtube and Vimeo without switching up my ranking
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    by yaj54 8y ago

    I'm not very familiar with NPS but I also have view count, so passives could be considered to be (view_count - likes - dislikes) right?
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    by yaj54 8y ago

    You're right those are all great talks (and fit in my definition of a tech talk). I just checked, and none of them are in my dataset, which I'll admit I'm surprised about. But they (and related ones) will make it into the n
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    by yaj54 8y ago

    50k is 50,000. Which is a lot of talks, but certainly not all of them. My abstract criteria for a talk being considered a "tech talk" is a live lecture given from the front of a room to a live multi-person audience with a subjec