Risto_Saarelma comments on Evaluating Multiple Metrics (where not all are required) - Less Wrong

-3 Post author: imbatman 20 February 2012 07:38PM

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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 21 February 2012 06:49:32AM 4 points [-]

Bolding or italicizing each special term the first time it appears in the text and writing it in regular typeface afterwards would probably read better, while still drawing attention to the relevant special concept words. People can keep picking out the word better without the typeface once they've been primed by the first mention to assume the word denotes an important concept.

Comment author: imbatman 21 February 2012 04:28:13PM 1 point [-]

I liked this idea, which carried the added bonus of only taking a few second to implement. Better?

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 21 February 2012 06:39:00PM 0 points [-]

Looks good to me now.

Comment author: imbatman 21 February 2012 08:56:21PM 0 points [-]

Thanks. Do you think the vote downs have to do with the content? Is this not a relevant topic for this forum?

Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 22 February 2012 05:08:18AM 0 points [-]

I guess the downvotes might be a combination of the thing post being a lot more in the idea stage than a worked out solution stage and it being about rating movies, which as itself isn't a very relevant topic.

The general idea of working out preferences using vectors instead of scalars does seem like a forum relevant topic to me, but your post leaves the details of making an actual working implementation, coming up with interesting use cases beyond movies and figuring out how the vector approach would be a significant improvement over a scalar approach in them up to the reader, so it's a bit thin as it stands.