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67 pointsantitoxic11 comments

This might be a good use case for https://trueskill.org/ since that takes into account what the rating of the other comic was when one is chosen over the other, it also gives an uncertainty value for each rating

It shouldn't change the mean though, with enough data.

In gaming, people often play against others closer to their skill, so you have to take that into account.

But with the comics, they're being chosen randomly so there's no bias like that to correct for.

Also people's assessment of the comparison comic is so noisy, knowing its rating probably won't help that much.

Uncertainty is key for deciding on the top ranking, but you can just use the standard formula for that.

> This site was created in the early months of 2011

Top comic:

> This comic beat 10 other comics and was beaten by 1 other comic for a total score of 0.9091.

Guess this site never got too popular...

At the bottom is <https://xkcd.com/1654/>, which is actually pretty funny.

It should really be ; instead of & though, otherwise the first failed install method will stop the rest of the script from executing

That's &&

& runs the thing in the background. So this is running all the commands in parallel.

You're completely right, sometimes I feel like Bash syntax is as impenetrable as regex.

I found this interesting: https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal/

Not sure what methodology they're using for analysis. Maybe just total wins? But there are better methods I've discussed on here before. I'm partial and biased towards using the choices as a sorting algorithm, but you can also do elo scoring like competitive chess and some video games

Aka "crowdsourcing a stack ranking of xkcds," or just the page title, "which one is the best xkcd?" Found a lot of gems I've never seen before

No, I will not be a constant in your algorthim

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