[HN Gopher] Best xkcd
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       Best xkcd
        
       Author : antitoxic
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2025-10-18 14:55 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | wonger_ wrote:
       | 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
        
       | Neywiny wrote:
       | 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
        
       | MathMonkeyMan wrote:
       | At the bottom is <https://xkcd.com/1654/>, which is actually
       | pretty funny.
        
         | caminanteblanco wrote:
         | It should really be ; instead of & though, otherwise the first
         | failed install method will stop the rest of the script from
         | executing
        
           | jonathrg wrote:
           | That's &&
           | 
           | & runs the thing in the background. So this is running all
           | the commands in parallel.
        
       | 7373737373 wrote:
       | 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
        
         | crazygringo wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | crazygringo wrote:
       | > _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...
        
       | ProAm wrote:
       | No, I will not be a constant in your algorthim
        
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