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Clarity comments on Open thread, Feb. 01 - Feb. 07, 2016 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Clarity 01 February 2016 11:05:38AM *  1 point [-]

Karma histogram program. Is there a webapp alternative? I don't know how to implement the Github code but I want to analyse and interpret my karma histogram.

Comment author: Vaniver 01 February 2016 02:13:34PM 2 points [-]

Oh hey! I'm pretty sure I wrote the original code for that.

Comment author: ScottL 02 February 2016 01:44:12AM 1 point [-]

I don't know Ruby, but I think that your code doesn't work properly. It will count the karma score for every comment on the comments page. This includes the comment that you are replying to. I believe that you should have checked the author name somewhere before you added to the karma HashMap.

Comment author: Vaniver 02 February 2016 01:49:49AM *  1 point [-]

I'm pretty sure when I wrote that four years ago we didn't have the previous comment for context on the user page. I agree with you that I wouldn't expect it to work now.

Comment author: Clarity 10 February 2016 05:08:21AM 0 points [-]

can we change that? :D it's beautiful as a concept

Comment author: Clarity 10 February 2016 05:08:02AM 0 points [-]

Thanks! ....so how do we use it, haha?

Comment author: ScottL 01 February 2016 12:17:09PM *  2 points [-]

If there is not, then I can create something on github pages that should do this. It should be fairly simple to do and would just involve scraping the data in the http://lesswrong.com/user/[specifiedUser]/comments/ pages. I think this is the only way to do it. Let me know what you want and I will look into it. I could probably also include your posts karma and allow you to check how your karma score changes over time.

Comment author: Clarity 01 February 2016 12:50:56PM *  0 points [-]

I want something that mimics or implements the existing program. Why reinvent this wheel? If it already does not feature, %positive will be an interesting feature. A very interesting extension would be to see how %karma and karma correlates with written content. For anyone machinelearning afficionados who wants to experiment with these ideas, I volunteer an unrestricted (for either/or commercial or noncommercial) use of my comments and posts. If you are interested in using my LessWrong account as a training data set, feel free to use my reddit account (/r/fruitheart) for outgroup comparison.