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Comment author: albeola 02 July 2012 06:22:22PM 5 points [-]

Ironically, it appears the new algorithm is frequentist.

Comment author: matt 02 July 2012 11:00:39PM 3 points [-]

Bayesian reformulations welcome.

Comment author: albeola 04 July 2012 08:07:08AM 1 point [-]

Apologies — I should have taken reinforcement into account and noted that the new algorithm is probably still a lot better than the previous one.

Comment author: jsalvatier 03 July 2012 03:02:14AM 0 points [-]

This seems like a neat problem. Would it be hard to go from a python function that takes a set of comment upvote downvote counts and returns a ranking to a comment sorting option? If I don't know much about the reddit internals?

Also, would it be difficult to get a real dataset of comment counts from LW?

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