For anyone who doesn’t know, every algorithm has flaws. Google Search has flaws. PeopleRank has flaws. And so does my algorithm for Quantifying Information Scarcity among the Quora users have flaws. The trick is not to give up hope and think of a new algorithm, but to instead improve the algorithm you already have. Tony … Continue reading Confirming Information Scarcity
Category Archives: Behavioural Data
Quantifying Information Scarcity
Now to get to what this Tongclaw board is really about. I’ve been thinking for a long time, about how smart someone is (how much they know), not correlating to how much upvotes they get. I wouldn’t go as far to call Quora a popularity contest, as ones amount of followers isn’t exactly proportionately affecting … Continue reading Quantifying Information Scarcity
Introducing Clickrobot
Some of you lot are wondering what this Tongclaw board is. You’ll find out soon enough. For now, you’ll be left with something I’ve just finished today called Clickrobot. Clickrobot is a bookmarklet (a bookmark that does funky stuff) that is used for automating the clicking of elements on webpages. Clickrobot runs inside your web … Continue reading Introducing Clickrobot