Supermodels Need 4 Letter URL Meme'Trackers
Some people are grokking (what does that term actually mean btw ?) "meme" "trackers" and their underlying good or badness for the world at large. There is also another argument about what the 'category' should be called. Blaagh. Blaagh. Romjin-Stamos, Xmen etc. I think the more memetrackers the merrier y'all be : I add each new trackers' RSS feed to my other 1900 feeds and tag it. Heck, it's more relevant per post than subscribing to fark, boingboing or Yahoo News-technology (internet) ! So anyway, while perusing one of these trackers, I found a way to apply the methodology and maths from these dugg services to my own little piece of Australian technology, where btw blogs are anywhere but "over" or passe as slate.com, that MS beacon and leader of being 'over' and 'passe' recently posted - as highlighted by tech.meme' (which chris pirillo has boycotted for lack of serendipity, fare enuf seattleite). I'd also ask the next meme'tracker to get a url less than 5 letters like digg (the most successful) Why the 'market challengers' insist on too long URLs me no comprende. EpsilonDelta blog : "The two fundamental dimensions of change for a link on a democratically ordered list are score and visibility. Using this idea, and by observing the natural tendency of theses lists, we arrive at the assumptions of the model (kevin, tom and adam - my tech team - please help ;) ! :
1. Score and visibility both change with time.
2. As the score of a link increases, its visibility increases. If its score decreases, the visibility decreases.
3. A certain proportion of people will vote for a link (positive score), while another proportion will vote against it (negative score).
4. As the visibility of a link increases, it is exposed to a greater number of people who will vote either for or against it.
5. As time progresses, new links will usurp the link in question..."
(BB : I didn't understand the maths here but feel free to explain it to me)
S’(t) = (α - β)V(t)
V’(t) = γS(t) - Rt
"... The parameter α represents the proportion of people who will give the link a positive vote, while β represents the proportion of people who will give the link a negative vote. Note the constraint α + β ≤ 1. γ is an ad-hoc parameter, which represents the “weight” that the score is given when calculating its visibility. In a basic model, γ = 1. The parameter R accounts for the fifth assumption. We will assume, for this model, that the visibility of a link will decrease linearly with time. Although the entry of new links into the system is a stochastic process, it is reasonable to assume that this entry behaves about linearly..."
1. Score and visibility both change with time.
2. As the score of a link increases, its visibility increases. If its score decreases, the visibility decreases.
3. A certain proportion of people will vote for a link (positive score), while another proportion will vote against it (negative score).
4. As the visibility of a link increases, it is exposed to a greater number of people who will vote either for or against it.
5. As time progresses, new links will usurp the link in question..."
(BB : I didn't understand the maths here but feel free to explain it to me)
S’(t) = (α - β)V(t)
V’(t) = γS(t) - Rt
"... The parameter α represents the proportion of people who will give the link a positive vote, while β represents the proportion of people who will give the link a negative vote. Note the constraint α + β ≤ 1. γ is an ad-hoc parameter, which represents the “weight” that the score is given when calculating its visibility. In a basic model, γ = 1. The parameter R accounts for the fifth assumption. We will assume, for this model, that the visibility of a link will decrease linearly with time. Although the entry of new links into the system is a stochastic process, it is reasonable to assume that this entry behaves about linearly..."
posted by redbarren at 5:33 PM
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