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Re:Guess the Correlation by dang on Sunday November 08, 2020 @03:22PM (#25028641)
Re:Guess the Correlation by fluctuation on Sunday November 08, 2020 @04:35PM (#25029299)
Oh! I should have searched it before posting.
Re:Guess the Correlation by dang on Sunday November 08, 2020 @05:42PM (#25029790)
Not at all! reposts are ok after a year: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. These links to past threads are just for readers who like to read past threads.
Re:Guess the Correlation by zck on Sunday November 08, 2020 @02:55PM (#25028419)
I got a 92! Pretty neat to look at.

It might also be interesting to see actual correlations between things. Seeing that a particular graph is 0.75 correlated is interesting, sure, but it might be more revealing that a particular graph is as correlated as, say, proportion of citizens in a country with college degrees and Nobel Prizes.

Re:Guess the Correlation by deathanatos on Monday November 09, 2020 @01:04AM (#25031856)
Did someone XSS the scoreboard? Going there takes me to YouTube, to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Re:Guess the Correlation by davidsojevic on Monday November 09, 2020 @01:12AM (#25031897)
Yep, definitely looks that way -- there's a username of:

  <script>window.location.href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ'</script>
With a high score that will clearly top any legitimate score from a player:

  1.7976931348623157e+308
Re:Guess the Correlation by Gunax on Monday November 09, 2020 @11:52AM (#25036736)
Wow, and I thought the author was just a prankser. I suppose this is the cost of posting to HN.
Re:Guess the Correlation by ImaCake on Monday November 09, 2020 @03:37AM (#25032631)
I tried to share this on facebook and it didn't let me beacause it thinks it is spam! I guess the URL is the victim of false positives in a hashing algorithm. Better than the alternative I suppose.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter

Re:Guess the Correlation by DangitBobby on Sunday November 08, 2020 @03:12PM (#25028545)
This was fun, I actually got really good after a while (187 with no end in sight).
Re:Guess the Correlation by infogulch on Monday November 09, 2020 @01:34AM (#25031978)
I seem to either get within either 0.01 or else more than 0.15, no in between. I wish it showed me more information about which ones I miss most.
Re:Guess the Correlation by wodenokoto on Sunday November 08, 2020 @04:18PM (#25029156)
To me it felt like the R numbers was all over the place.
Re:Guess the Correlation by mkaic on Sunday November 08, 2020 @03:06PM (#25028503)
I got 102 with a mean error of .1 :)
Re:Guess the Correlation by roastbeef2 on Monday November 09, 2020 @12:31AM (#25031748)
interesting graphics, +1 to the author, do you use a specific library?
Re:Guess the Correlation by fluctuation on Monday November 09, 2020 @07:17AM (#25033954)
Sorry I don't know as I am not the author. I found the game on twitter and posted here. Omar Wagih is the author (https://twitter.com/omarwagih)