I read some of your comment history, and usually your sarcastic comments are actually funny and contain implicit but substantial criticisms. Sometimes they suck. As far as I can tell, although I’m subject to obvious bias, this one sucks: it’s not really funny and it’s not clear that there’s a substantial criticism. I’m interested in what your criticism actually is, if there is one.
Attention, people who have a lot of free time and want to found the next reddit:
When a site user upvotes and downvotes things, you use that data to categorize that user’s preferences (you’ll be doing a very sparse SVD sort of operation under the hood). Their subsequent votes can be decomposed into expressions of the most common preference vectors, and their browsing can then be sorted by decomposed-votes-with-personalized-weightings.
This will make you a lot of friends (people who want to read ramblings about philosophy won’t be inundated with cute kitten pictures and vice versa, even if they use the same site), make you a lot of money (better-targeted advertising pays better), solve the problem above (people who like and people who hate trollish jokes won’t need to come to a consensus), and solve the problem way above (“predisposition towards rationalism” will probably be one of the top ten or twenty principal components to fall out of your SVD).
It will also create new problems (how much easier will it be to hide in a bubble of people who share your political opinions? how do you filter out redundancy?) but those can be fixed in subsequent steps.
For now it’s just embarrassing that modern forums don’t have either the same level of fine-grained preferences that you could find on Slashdot 15 years ago (“Funny” vs “Informative” etc) or the killfile capabilities you could find in Usenet readers 25 years ago.
Actually, the prophet tells us to ‘notice when we are surprised’. There are those who say that funnyness has a lot to do with being surprised.
Prediction: English Omnipresent Humour (we make jokes at funerals, for God’s sake) and English Eccentricity and (historical) English Scientific Prowess are some way related.
I read some of your comment history, and usually your sarcastic comments are actually funny and contain implicit but substantial criticisms. Sometimes they suck. As far as I can tell, although I’m subject to obvious bias, this one sucks: it’s not really funny and it’s not clear that there’s a substantial criticism. I’m interested in what your criticism actually is, if there is one.
I loved your post, but I also think metatroll’s comment is funny. I don’t think it’s anything but a joke.
(the following isn’t off-topic, I promise:)
Attention, people who have a lot of free time and want to found the next reddit:
When a site user upvotes and downvotes things, you use that data to categorize that user’s preferences (you’ll be doing a very sparse SVD sort of operation under the hood). Their subsequent votes can be decomposed into expressions of the most common preference vectors, and their browsing can then be sorted by decomposed-votes-with-personalized-weightings.
This will make you a lot of friends (people who want to read ramblings about philosophy won’t be inundated with cute kitten pictures and vice versa, even if they use the same site), make you a lot of money (better-targeted advertising pays better), solve the problem above (people who like and people who hate trollish jokes won’t need to come to a consensus), and solve the problem way above (“predisposition towards rationalism” will probably be one of the top ten or twenty principal components to fall out of your SVD).
It will also create new problems (how much easier will it be to hide in a bubble of people who share your political opinions? how do you filter out redundancy?) but those can be fixed in subsequent steps.
For now it’s just embarrassing that modern forums don’t have either the same level of fine-grained preferences that you could find on Slashdot 15 years ago (“Funny” vs “Informative” etc) or the killfile capabilities you could find in Usenet readers 25 years ago.
+5 Insightful
There is Omilibrium, which does the vote SVD-ing thing.
Actually, the prophet tells us to ‘notice when we are surprised’. There are those who say that funnyness has a lot to do with being surprised.
Prediction: English Omnipresent Humour (we make jokes at funerals, for God’s sake) and English Eccentricity and (historical) English Scientific Prowess are some way related.