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by yaj54 8y ago
Cool. The hard part is collecting the list relevant talks, the easy part is ranking them. If there is a way to get the right set of academic history talks it wouldn't be that hard to go from there. I haven't watched much histori
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by yaj54 8y ago
Not on purpose at all, I've learned a lot from Uncle Bob. 50k talks is certainly not all of the talks ever, and there are many good talks not included in the 6 lists I've generated (which is a total of only about 230 talks). I&#
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by yaj54 8y ago
My current ranking stuff knowledge is coming from Evan Miller's blog, here's a post that deals with star ratings: https://www.evanmiller.org/ranking-items-with-star-ratings.h...
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by yaj54 8y ago
True-ish. Since the formula uses confidence intervals[0] it does better with recent talks than a simple (likes - dislikes). But you're right, breaking into "all time" status is tough because there are a number of talks with
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by yaj54 8y ago
Do you mean history outside of tech? Or history of (software / CS) tech? A lot of times my favorite talks are historical perspective (tech) talks, so I would also like to get more of those in there. A "history" topic filter
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by yaj54 8y ago
Not at the moment on the site, but there is a lot of potential there for sure. I do have that capability on my local copy of the data and it's fun.
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I'll admit, "all time" is slightly inaccurate. Actually, now I'm curious how far back my data actually goes.
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Hey HN, here’s the result of gathering as many tech talks as I could find and then trying a bunch of ranking heuristics to find one that produced reasonable results. I’m currently using the lower bound of each talk’s Wilson score confidenc
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Show HN: TechYaks – Best of 50k tech talks ranked by confidence intervals(techyaks.com)
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