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How Not To Sort By Average Rating
Users are rating items on your website. How do you know what the highest-rated items are?
Evan Miller
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Statistical Formulas For Programmers
When someone says “7 is greater than 5”, you declare that they’re really the same.
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The Mathematical Hacker
The programming profession is blessed with a number of gifted essayists. Today I will pick on three of my favorites — Eric Raymond, Paul Graham, and Steve Yegge — because they all seem to disagree about why (and whether) mathematics is relevant to the practicing programmer. Their attitudes might be summarized as:
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Deriving the Reddit Formula
A few things about Reddit’s hot formula have always bothered me. The formula has obviously been a success when it comes to setting the Internet on fire, but I have to wonder:
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Adventure Games and Eigenvalues (2017)
Do adventure games have dead ends? The author of The Teeny Tiny Mansion proves the absence of dead ends in that game via formal verification (in particular, with the help of the cbmc model-checking program ). Here I’ll demonstrate how to prove the same thing via Markov theory. The Markov approach requires more…