Month: November 2010

Zen and the art of applying T tests to Spam Data

Decisionstats traffic seemed up mmm but Spam is way way up

Whos spamming my dear bloggie

hmm

is it the russians doing a link spam. unlikely they dont bot against Akismet that much (as they fail)

And Captcha can be failed by python (apparently. sigh)

Is there a co relation of certain tags of posts, and count of spam- hoping to distort say blogs’s search engine rankings for SAS WPS Lawsuit in Google or jet ski across  pacific in Google.

Sigh- an old retired outlaw black hat is never kept in peace. Try doing a blog search for R in Google- Revo  is now down to number 7 (which is hmm given Google Instant)

Of course I think too much about SEO, but I dont run CPC ads- I made much more money when traffic is low – say 5-10 small businesses needing to forecast their sales .

and enjoy your Thanksgiving. Remember the Indians bring the Turkeys.

 

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Reputation on Social Networks

Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility
Image via Wikipedia

Classical Economics talks of the value of utlity, diminishing marginal utility if the same things is repeated again and again (like spam in an online community)

StackOverflow has a great way of measuring reputation – and thus allows intangible benefits /awards -similar to wikipedia badges , reddit karma. Utility is also auto generated like @klout  on twitter or lists memberships and other sucessful open source communities online including Ubuntu forums have ways to create ah hierarchies even in class less utopian classes.

Basically it then acts as the motivating game as the mostly boy population try to race on numbers.

 

in Stack Overflow- you can get buddies to upvote you and basically act as a role playing game too.

—–From http://stackoverflow.com/faq#reputation

To gain reputation, post good questions and useful answers. Your peers will vote on your posts, and those votes will cause you to gain (or, in rare cases, lose) reputation:

answer is voted up +10
question is voted up +5
answer is accepted +15 (+2 to acceptor)
post is voted down -2 (-1 to voter)

A maximum of 30 votes can be cast per user per day, and you can earn a maximum of 200 reputation per day (although accepted answers and bounty awards are immune to this limit). Also, please note that votes for any posts marked “community wiki” do not generate reputation.

Amass enough reputation points and Stack Overflow will allow you to go beyond simply asking and answering questions:

15 Vote up
15 Flag offensive
50 Leave comments†
100 Edit community wiki posts
125 Vote down (costs 1 rep)
200 Reduced advertising
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DirkE and JD swoon about Shane's MOM in Room 106 while writing R code

In a shadowy room in cyberworld , two geeks plot revenge on a common

blgger and up vote each other on stack overflow while discussing Shane’s MOM

–http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/106/2010/11/15

 

Shane

How can you announce this on SO?

Oh…

Sure…go for it.

I’ll downvote it.

🙂

We should also add it into the [r] wiki.

I added it to the wiki.

We should probably try to clean that up a little; some of the other tags have put a lot of effort into it. (e.g. stackoverflow.com/tags/java/info)

Whoa! I didn’t downvote your post.
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

I was wondering…
Feel free to upvote it to set it back to even.

Shane
Shane
3:18 PM

I did.

Someone voted to close too.

Some people take themselves way too seriously…
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

Yup. And not unlike the people constantly call for community-wiki.

BTW I didn’t see the button for CW anymore once it was posted. What am I missing?
Shane
Shane

I think that I may have seen something about a bug related to that…
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

Four close votes, and -2 score. Whoa Nelly.
Shane
Shane

Ha! I’m not overly surprised. Meant to suggest that you use CW…

Ironically, you’re still ahead in the rep. on this question, right? Although I think that it might get downvoted into oblivion before we’re done…
Joshua Ulrich
Joshua Ulrich

I up-voted. Dirk, I’ve got your back. 😉

 

 

Begin……

3 hours later…

JD Long
JD Long
8:09 PM

@DirkEddelbuettel you catch Ajay’s latest? ow.ly/3a8gK
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

Jeebus

I had actually unsub’ed from his feed. Now I know why. How you’re doing with the Yahoo Pipes app?

Methinks he has some sort of clinical compulsive condition given how every single post has to include a reference that his facvourite software company from NC, and/or members of their management team.
JD Long
JD Long

@DirkEddelbuettel I stumbled on that one in Twitter. pipes project has been tabled while I fight some other battles.

I think he’s fishing for SEO sugar with his posts. His use of words seems contrived to include key words over and over
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

Twitter is so useless, between him and Ed Borasky’s (znmeb) spambots nothing else of value appers.
JD Long
JD Long

I guess like so many streams it requires filtering. The basic twitter blocking takes them out prett

y quickly

Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

So blocking is common? They ought to show that: “subscribed to N, listened to by M and showing good taste by blocking O asshats”
JD Long
JD Long
8:19 PM

ha! yeah that would be good signaling. Not sure how common it is, but I use it mostly for spam bots. I actually have only blocked 2 warm blooded humans (counting Ajay’s multiple accts as one person)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Oh boy 🙂 Romain has fired a salvo on r-devel: “Depends on what your goal is: getting the job done, or learning about the R/C API”. Hehe.

@JDLong Tell who: One is Shane’s mother, and the other is … ?

JD Long
JD Long

speaking of shane’s mom, he and Josh deciding to be productive members of real society today?
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DirkE and JD swoon about Shane’s MOM in Room 106 while writing R code

In a shadowy room in cyberworld , two geeks plot revenge on a common

blgger and up vote each other on stack overflow while discussing Shane’s MOM

–http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/106/2010/11/15

 

Shane

How can you announce this on SO?

Oh…

Sure…go for it.

I’ll downvote it.

🙂

We should also add it into the [r] wiki.

I added it to the wiki.

We should probably try to clean that up a little; some of the other tags have put a lot of effort into it. (e.g. stackoverflow.com/tags/java/info)

Whoa! I didn’t downvote your post.
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

I was wondering… Feel free to upvote it to set it back to even.

Shane
Shane
3:18 PM

I did.

Someone voted to close too.

Some people take themselves way too seriously…
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

Yup. And not unlike the people constantly call for community-wiki.

BTW I didn’t see the button for CW anymore once it was posted. What am I missing?
Shane
Shane

I think that I may have seen something about a bug related to that…
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

Four close votes, and -2 score. Whoa Nelly.
Shane
Shane

Ha! I’m not overly surprised. Meant to suggest that you use CW…

Ironically, you’re still ahead in the rep. on this question, right? Although I think that it might get downvoted into oblivion before we’re done…
Joshua Ulrich
Joshua Ulrich

I up-voted. Dirk, I’ve got your back. 😉

 

 

Begin……

3 hours later…

JD Long
JD Long
8:09 PM

@DirkEddelbuettel you catch Ajay’s latest? ow.ly/3a8gK
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

Jeebus

I had actually unsub’ed from his feed. Now I know why. How you’re doing with the Yahoo Pipes app?

Methinks he has some sort of clinical compulsive condition given how every single post has to include a reference that his facvourite software company from NC, and/or members of their management team.
JD Long
JD Long

@DirkEddelbuettel I stumbled on that one in Twitter. pipes project has been tabled while I fight some other battles.

I think he’s fishing for SEO sugar with his posts. His use of words seems contrived to include key words over and over
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

Twitter is so useless, between him and Ed Borasky’s (znmeb) spambots nothing else of value appers.
JD Long
JD Long

I guess like so many streams it requires filtering. The basic twitter blocking takes them out pretty quickly
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Dirk Eddelbuettel

So blocking is common? They ought to show that: “subscribed to N, listened to by M and showing good taste by blocking O asshats”
JD Long
JD Long
8:19 PM

ha! yeah that would be good signaling. Not sure how common it is, but I use it mostly for spam bots. I actually have only blocked 2 warm blooded humans (counting Ajay’s multiple accts as one person)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Oh boy 🙂 Romain has fired a salvo on r-devel: “Depends on what your goal is: getting the job done, or learning about the R/C API”. Hehe.

@JDLong Tell who: One is Shane’s mother, and the other is … ?

JD Long
JD Long

speaking of shane’s mom, he and Josh deciding to be productive members of real society today?
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Statistical Analysis with R- by John M Quick

I was asked to be a techie reviewe for John M Quick’s new R book “Statistical Analysis with R” from Packt Publishing some months ago-(very much to my surprise I confess)-

I agreed- and technical reviewer work does take time- its like being a mid wife and there is whole team trying to get the book to birth.

Statistical Analysis with R- is a Beginner’s Guide so has nice screenshots, simple case studies, and quizzes to check recall of student/ reader. I remember struggling with the official “beginner’s guide to R” so this one is different in that it presents a story of a Chinese Army and how to use R to plan resources to fight the battle. It’s recommended especially for undergraduate courses- R need not be an elitist language- and given my experience with Asian programming acumen – I am sure it is a matter of time before high schools in India teach basic R in final years ( I learnt quite a shit load of quantum physics as compulsory topics in Indian high schools- but I guess we didnt have Jersey Shore things to do)

Congrats to author Mr John M Quick- he is doing his educational Phd from ASU- and I am sure both he and his approach to making education simple informative and fun will go places.

Only bad thing- The Name Statistical Analysis with R has atleast three other books , but I guess Google will catch up to it.

This book is here-https://www.packtpub.com/statistical-analysis-with-r-beginners-guide/book

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Opera's Minimalistic Peer to peer OS Browser

mijn Opera Unite Fridge
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Yes Opera is a browser but you may as well call it an OS. With an uncluttered design, some mind bending Opera Unite Peer to Peer features (in a browser!) withhttp://unite.opera.com/applications/, and nifty widgets- try singing some Opera. I really dont know how browsers make money, especially since they are suing each other all the time, but well- heres to more choice – if you don’t want a corporation owned browser lusting to sell your leaked privacy data to Don Draper- Opera is a good choice- much better than Sea Monkey and the Fox .

I really liked the option to make my own web server in 2 clicks,and share stuff. The bit trorrent support is really nice but I wonder if there was any Scandinavian brotherly ports in bit torrent sharing 😉 , me hearties

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Opera’s Minimalistic Peer to peer OS Browser

mijn Opera Unite Fridge
Image by Jaap Stronks via Flickr

Yes Opera is a browser but you may as well call it an OS. With an uncluttered design, some mind bending Opera Unite Peer to Peer features (in a browser!) withhttp://unite.opera.com/applications/, and nifty widgets- try singing some Opera. I really dont know how browsers make money, especially since they are suing each other all the time, but well- heres to more choice – if you don’t want a corporation owned browser lusting to sell your leaked privacy data to Don Draper- Opera is a good choice- much better than Sea Monkey and the Fox .

I really liked the option to make my own web server in 2 clicks,and share stuff. The bit trorrent support is really nice but I wonder if there was any Scandinavian brotherly ports in bit torrent sharing 😉 , me hearties

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