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Re:Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you s... by abetusk on Thursday May 25, 2023 @08:49PM (#36078423)
It's pretty old (3+ years) but I did some sophomoric analysis on some HN data [0]. I just added a frequency-karma plot and it looks power law, which should be no big surprise. Using a MLE from John Cook [1], the exponent looks to be about -1.1.

[0] https://abetusk.github.io/yahnda/

[1] https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2015/11/24/estimating-the-exp...

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Re:Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you s... by andrewmcwatters on Friday May 26, 2023 @01:03AM (#36080179)
Nice work! This is basically exactly what I was curious about. Thanks for satisfying my itch. Kudos for the db snapshot, too!
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