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By Evan Miller February 6, 2009 ( Changes ) PROBLEM : You are a web programmer. You have users. Your users rate stuff on your site. You want to put the highest-rated stuff at the top and lowest-rated at the bottom. You need some sort of "score" to sort by. WRONG SOLUTION #1 : Score = (Positive ratings) - (Negative ratings) Why it is wrong : Suppose one item has 600 positive ratings and 400 negative ratings: 60% positive. Suppose item two has 5,500 positive ratings and 4,500 negative ratings: 55% positive. This algorithm puts item two (score = 1000, but only 55% positive) above item one (score = 200, and 60% positive). WRONG. Sites that make this mistake : Urban Dictionary WRONG SOLUTION #2 : Score = Average rating = (Positive ratings) / (Total ratings) Why it is wrong : Average rating works fine if you always have a ton of ratings, but suppose item 1 has 2 positive rati...
By Evan Miller May 14, 2015 The word rust is the last thing I want to think about when I am hungry and/or fantasizing about building something that will endure through the ages. As a name for a programming language, “Rust” doesn’t exactly inspire confidence, but to take your mind off of ancient AMC Pacers and eating a bucket full of rusty nails, I’ll let you in on a couple of folk etymologies for the language, only one of which I just made up. The first etymology is an apocryphal IRC chat log from the language’s creator. It is not made-up, at least not by me. <graydon> I think I named it after fungi. rusts are amazing creatures. <graydon> Five-lifecycle-phase heteroecious parasites. I mean, that’s just _crazy_. <graydon> talk about over-engineered for survival <jonanin> what does that mean? :] Isn’t a death-resistant parasitic fungus so much better to contemplate than tiny ...