posted by max on April 22, 2007 at 11:19:04 PM

i can't sleep now. i've been through two cases of red bull in two weeks.


current mood: depressed
current music: avril lavigne





welcome 2 my blog lol.

So anyway I've been seriously working on a recommendation in my never ending quest to avoid the moderation system.
After some initial tries in PHP it quickly became clear I had to move on to something a bit faster. A few days later and endless hours of refreshing my C++, and I have a fairly accurate prediction/recommendation system written.

It incorporates all the votes ever made and finds patterns between sites and the users that vote on them. After all is said and done, it's about 80% accurate and incredibly helpful for finding diamonds in the rough.

While it will take a lot more work to perfect it, it has a lot of promise, so I may be asking a few users to beta it in the near future.

One big issue with the system is that it will only give you accurate predictions and recommendations if you vote accurately. Rather, voting 5 on every site won't yield you good results, having a fairly even vote spread seems to provide the best results. So the next time you go to make a vote or downvote someone for making all those mean comments, think it through.

The more your votes reflect the actual rating of the content you are looking at versus who made the site and the circumstances, the better things will be for everyone in the future.


Also you may have noticed all the new ads, federated media is really starting to come through and land some real ad deals. This means that we will hopefully be able to get a couple more servers soon. Most importantly, the higher quality level ads means I can slowly start removing some ads so there aren't so many.

YFLY is sponsoring YTMND this week and they have a nifty little product called "Smack talk" which allows you to create shweet little movie clips and put words in other people's mouths. Check out the widget on the front page.