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I do assume a strong correlation between post and user quality but I don't have proof.
Also I totally ignored topic context.
Also I totally ignored topic context.
post quality can be quantified somehow
Looking at just one post without context? I guess it would be less cpu time?Quote
look for some research
After reading your post I did pose a few questions to ai chat with possibly interesting results. Queries (in order, with typos, and ai chat answers between each query):- quantify post quality of a forum post
- specifically site is bitcointalk.org
- indicate which of these an be measured with low computational cost
- rearrange the low cost metrics from best to worst
- adjust for the fact that accounts can be bought and sold
- adjust to the fact that users may get paid for posting
- same analisys for comments vs opening posts
- which are most usefule without taking context from other posts
The issue is, I currently don't have a reliable way to measure post quality.
Suggest to look at "user quality". Example post history.
A lot of this kind of user exists. Looked at recent unread topics and this one I found at my third try.
The patterns to look for in this case there are about 1200 posts that all "look" the same:
- Each post begins with a quote.
- Followed by one or two lines of text.
Other things to look for:
- All roughly the same total length.
- All roughly the same number of paragraphs, of the same length.
- Same number of sentences, of the same length.
- Each with for example one image.
All these are in my opinion the result of "forced" content generation. Usually with financial incentive I would assume.
Of course above metric can be gamed. The thing here is that this pattern is predictable. The next posts of above user will also look the same. Introucing more variety in post style will take more effort, and would possibly also be indicative of improved quality.
Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
Yeah statistics... Anyway. Looks bad but small mistake: You got the HICP comparing 2021 to 2020 and the CPI comparing December 2021 to December 2020. It's really the last couple months that inflation spiked up so the yearly average numbers look a bit better.
Number go up?
Number go up?
Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
So last night I'm at the home cinema room watching a movie and I open a bag of Jack Link's Beef Jerky to eat while watching. First time to try it, it's an American thing, not found where I live, had to specially order it. Room was dark, saw a little bag inside it, and thought it was some kind of seasoning (maybe salt of pepper). So I open the little bag and spread the contents over the pieces of meat. I ate everything, it was delicious. Guess what: this morning I realised that the little bag said DO NOT EAT outside it. Fcuk! It was something called "oxygen absorber", supposedly to keep the meat fresh. Lesson learned: always read the label before you eat (do) something. I'm still alive (for now)!
As for Elon, I think he has sold already. It doesn't make sense to HoDL and act the way he did (and still does). Maybe the earlier dip we had before the recent bigger one was him selling? Anyways, I'm not so good at this sort of thing, it makes Bitcoin seem like stocks and shares, which I absolutely hate. Of course, I haven't sold a sat, and even thinking of BTFD. In any case, Elon will soon be forgotten, and Bitcoin will resume its upward trend again, as it has done so many times before. Silk Road, MtGox, forkenings, China bans, ETF rejections, mempool spamming, CSW/Ayre/Wu/Ver attacks, you name it, Bitcoin has always chewed them up and spat them out, and so it will do to Elon.
Let's wait until this thing settles. Maybe there are things at play we don't yet know...
As for Elon, I think he has sold already. It doesn't make sense to HoDL and act the way he did (and still does). Maybe the earlier dip we had before the recent bigger one was him selling? Anyways, I'm not so good at this sort of thing, it makes Bitcoin seem like stocks and shares, which I absolutely hate. Of course, I haven't sold a sat, and even thinking of BTFD. In any case, Elon will soon be forgotten, and Bitcoin will resume its upward trend again, as it has done so many times before. Silk Road, MtGox, forkenings, China bans, ETF rejections, mempool spamming, CSW/Ayre/Wu/Ver attacks, you name it, Bitcoin has always chewed them up and spat them out, and so it will do to Elon.
Let's wait until this thing settles. Maybe there are things at play we don't yet know...
As someone who likes the stuff and the South African version Biltong I find this quite funny to read. You'll live.
From Google:
What is the do not eat packet in beef jerky?
According to Slate, silica gel is “an inert, nontoxic substance that’s essentially harmless. … So if you accidentally eat some of the silica gel in the beef jerky packet (or if your kid does), don’t worry. It’s completely harmless.
Maybe stick with popcorn or crisps next time.
My living room in essence is a cinema room btw. 5.1 setup with Epson projector and a 110 inch screen. It's not a very wide room so can't go bigger really.
Sometimes I do have my dinner in there but will usually leave a corner lamp on whilst doing that. Once finished eating it goes off.
Pretty sure that is not true, I beleive silca gel is carcinogenic, at least I was told that once.
However, he said oxygen absorber, which is not silca gel. Silca gel is for absorbing moisture. So it may be nothing, or may be something, in such small doses I'd say nothing.
If it were really serious they would not be able to sell the stuff as is. I'm sure this happens all the time.
That's what I thought, even before searching about it. I guess they wouldn't put a poisonous/harmful sachet inside a snack bag (most snacks are harmful enough as it is, LOL)... Actually, I'm very careful about such things, it just did not occur to me that there are such types of bags inside food packages.
Funny thing, I even scooped it all with the meat jerky to make sure I eat the thing (wouldn't want to miss the flavour). Didn't taste like salt or pepper. It was crunchy, but in a weird sort of way, like charcoal. I actually thought it was something to imitate the BBQ/charcoal particles/taste.
Live and learn.
Oxygen absorber that's iron powder. Extra crunchy
Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
We are working with a solar company that claims to achieved 70% efficiency. Unfortunately it is not production ready but they may partner with us to showcase their product.
It would be truly revolutionary if they can achieve it.
It would be truly revolutionary if they can achieve it.
It would be truly revolutionary indeed to be breaking the laws of thermodynamics.
Also, as of now there's nothing on the market or theoretical that comes even close to 70%
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell_efficiency#/media/File:CellPVeff(rev190916).png
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Chart looks bullish though
Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
Is there a Dutch word for 'fuckery'?
A somewhat old-fashioned one: verlakkerij. Translates roughly as deceit, betrayal, getting led to a trap.
You'll love the etymology though: verlakken was the practice of painting silver coins with shellac to make them appear like gold.
⭐ Merited by DdmrDdmr (3)
A couple of weeks ago there was a thread on Meta on the topic (see Sort posts by merit spent).
Seems like an interesting approach as well. Basically adding a column into the topic overview.Quote
One way to search for the most merited threads is to use the Merit Dashboard. If you go to a tab called Rankings, the right hand side block labelled Top Merited Thread Ranking sorts all merited threads (aggregate of posts within) by received sMerits and ranks them. You can filter by a specific section/subsection, and/or specify a date range using the filter at the top of the screen to, for example, see the most merited threads in the last month in the Bitcoin Discussion board.
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It is true though, as said above, that threads swerve to and from in terms of content, so merited posts within the thread are often not precisely aligned completely with the threads OP.
Well since you put a hammer in my hand 
Let's see if I can drive my point of view home by an example. I filtered out the local boards (can't judge) and moved the slider to include only last month. I just glossed over the result and selected what looked interesting.Flaws in LN (Lightning Network).
Which aligns pretty well with your last statement.
I have often seen a thread get posted where OP is completely out-of-line, incorrect, misleading, etc. and then the users that reply, call them out, provide proper information, etc. are given an extensive amount of merit. Under the suggestion you propose, it would appear as if OP was receiving the merits for their topic, when in reality those merits are effectively "anti-OP".
As shown in the example I gave, it doesn't have to be anti-op like that. The OP could be a useful hook, just a small thing, a simple question, for creating an otherwise very interesting conversation.Ah yes, of course there's a way to do it with the available data dumps. The trick is to keep that list up to date though.
Full disclosure: I just wanted to abuse the efforts of merit-givers as another way to more easily find interesting things on here.
Full disclosure: I just wanted to abuse the efforts of merit-givers as another way to more easily find interesting things on here.
Hmm I tend to approach it as "a conversation has a topic".
Or in a more forum-centric view, where a topic has an opening post and zero or more replies, which together form the conversation.
Or in a more forum-centric view, where a topic has an opening post and zero or more replies, which together form the conversation.
Going here: Top-merited recent topics shows the list of top merited recent topics.
Right now it only counts merit on the topic's opening post.
Should it not consider all posts in the topic? Seems to make more sense to me.
Otherwise maybe call it "Top merited recent topic starts" ?
Right now it only counts merit on the topic's opening post.
Should it not consider all posts in the topic? Seems to make more sense to me.
Otherwise maybe call it "Top merited recent topic starts" ?
Re: [FREE RAFFLE] THE HALVENING - BLOCK 420,000 ****290 BLOCKS TO GO*****
Yeah, I'll admit I came out of my lurking cave just for this 
I really don't post much anywhere in general and seeing a free raffle with big prizes, I jumped on it
Feel free to take my spot away and give it to someone else, if lurkers aren't allowed
I really don't post much anywhere in general and seeing a free raffle with big prizes, I jumped on it
Feel free to take my spot away and give it to someone else, if lurkers aren't allowed
good idea, it is probably a stupid syntax mistake, and I can change folder names once I get it working
"D:\Program Files (x86)\Armory\ArmoryQt.exe" --satoshi-datadir=D:\Bitcoin --datadir=D:\armorydb
"D:\Program Files (x86)\Armory\ArmoryQt.exe" --satoshi-datadir=D:\Bitcoin --datadir=D:\armorydb
What's the difference between: "
Look closely
Remade the chart. Data is USD prices from bitcoinaverage.com.
Chart is less accurate before 04-2011, since the prices are rounded to $0.01
http://s15.postimg.org/uh569b6fv/Volatility.png
Chart is less accurate before 04-2011, since the prices are rounded to $0.01
http://s15.postimg.org/uh569b6fv/Volatility.png
