Recently ran across this post that recommends using a Beta-Binomial distribution to more correctly represent the uncertainty that any given post adds to your overall karma. I thought it was a cool idea and would love to see what my Karma is when represented that way, rather than just adding everything together:
For me, just understanding the weighting for the votes based on existing karma of the voter would be sufficient to say my idea was “implemented”. Even without knowing that it was helpful to learn about that feature of the votes.
Recently ran across this post that recommends using a Beta-Binomial distribution to more correctly represent the uncertainty that any given post adds to your overall karma. I thought it was a cool idea and would love to see what my Karma is when represented that way, rather than just adding everything together:
https://moultano.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/how-karma-should-work-betabinomial/
I’d be interested in a mathy person translating that into less mathy language that roughly communicates why it’s interesting.
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For me, just understanding the weighting for the votes based on existing karma of the voter would be sufficient to say my idea was “implemented”. Even without knowing that it was helpful to learn about that feature of the votes.