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by ssivark
2366 days ago
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Which means that this is what the exploration pattern ends up looking like in practice:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2866#comi... Aside: This SMBC shall be long etched in my memory: "All the best work has been done over here! [...] The funding is here too!" --- Here's a teaser challenge for someone who has access to HN comments data for analytics: How often does an early comment come to dominate the discussion, rather than a better comment which comes later? Assume that there is some IID stochastic process which generates comments of varying quality (play with your distribution of choice), and plot what the time distribution of "best" comments looks like under that model -- compared to the time distribution of most upvoted/discussed comments on HN (can try different composite metrics here too). --- Provocative meta question for PG: Are (venture-funded) startups the "fashionable" idea that is over-subscribed? How would one know? (suppose we restrict the discussion to Silicon Valley) |
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