Pre-alpha, one hour of work. I plan to improve it.
EDIT:Here is the source code. 80 lines of python. It makes raw text output, links and formatting are lost. It would be quite trivial to do nice and spiffy html output.
EDIT2:I can do html output now. It is nice and spiffy, but it has some CSS bug. After the fifth quote it falls apart. This is my first time with CSS, and I hope it is also the last. Could somebody help me with this? Thanks.
EDIT3: Bug resolved. I wrote another top-level comment. about the final version, because my access logs suggested that the EDITs have reached only a very few people. Of course, an alternative explanation is that everybody who would have been interested in the html version already checked out the txt version. We will soon find out which explanation is the correct one.
It might make more sense to put this on the Wiki. Two notes: First, some of the quotes have remarks contained in the posts which you have not edited out. I don’t know if you intend to keep those. Second, some of the quotes are comments from quote threads that aren’t actually quotes. 14 SilasBarta is one example. (And is just me or does that citation form read like a citation from a religious text ?)
I agreed with you, I even started to write a reply to JoshuaZ about the intricacies of human-machine cooperation in text-processing pipelines. But then I realized that it is not necessarily a problem if the text is dead. A Rationality Quotes, Best of 2010 Edition could be nice.
Agreed. Best of 2009 can be compiled now and frozen, best of 2010 end of the year and so on. It’d also be useful to publish the source code of whatever script was used to generate the rating on the wiki, as a subpage.
Less Wrong Rationality Quotes since April 2009, sorted by points.
Pre-alpha, one hour of work. I plan to improve it.
EDIT: Here is the source code. 80 lines of python. It makes raw text output, links and formatting are lost. It would be quite trivial to do nice and spiffy html output.
EDIT2: I can do html output now. It is nice and spiffy, but it has some CSS bug. After the fifth quote it falls apart. This is my first time with CSS, and I hope it is also the last. Could somebody help me with this? Thanks.
EDIT3: Bug resolved. I wrote another top-level comment. about the final version, because my access logs suggested that the EDITs have reached only a very few people. Of course, an alternative explanation is that everybody who would have been interested in the html version already checked out the txt version. We will soon find out which explanation is the correct one.
Not having to side scroll would be spiffy.
If you’re using Firefox, there’s an add-on for that.
Or, if you’re lazy like me, you can select ‘Page Source’ under the View menu and then select the ‘Wrap Long Lines’ option.
Arigato :)
It might make more sense to put this on the Wiki. Two notes: First, some of the quotes have remarks contained in the posts which you have not edited out. I don’t know if you intend to keep those. Second, some of the quotes are comments from quote threads that aren’t actually quotes. 14 SilasBarta is one example. (And is just me or does that citation form read like a citation from a religious text ?)
On the wiki, this text will be dead, because nobody will be adding new items there by hand.
I agreed with you, I even started to write a reply to JoshuaZ about the intricacies of human-machine cooperation in text-processing pipelines. But then I realized that it is not necessarily a problem if the text is dead. A Rationality Quotes, Best of 2010 Edition could be nice.
Agreed. Best of 2009 can be compiled now and frozen, best of 2010 end of the year and so on. It’d also be useful to publish the source code of whatever script was used to generate the rating on the wiki, as a subpage.
Very cool idea.
It would be nice if links were preserved.