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[redbird]

Having been awakened early by a thunderstorm, I got to the "trustflow" algorithm when it wasn't overly busy.



As seems to be standard, I've got a mix of people whose names I recognize (and in some cases share LJ communities with) and complete strangers; no maintenance-type communities, because I have them all on my friends list already.
Closest 50 non-Friends for redbird:

TrustFlow trust metric

Created by ciphergoth, see trustmetrics for details.

Closest 50 non-Friends for redbird:

1: crystalizethis, 2: akicif, 3: rosefox, 4: pnh, 5: serendipoz, 6: dmw, 7: major_clanger, 8: kalmn, 9: spikeiowa, 10: wandra, 11: numbat, 12: tamaranth, 13: livejardin, 14: del_c, 15: wcg, 16: catabolism, 17: patsycat, 18: patio_gardens, 19: swisstone, 20: rozk, 21: lcohen, 22: gardening, 23: horticulture, 24: matociquala, 25: the_magician, 26: juliebata, 27: residentevil666, 28: malwen, 29: lsanderson, 30: groliffe, 31: libertango, 32: bigdaddyfluff, 33: kittyland, 34: rmjwell, 35: bcholmes, 36: davidschroth, 37: pmcmurray, 38: jinian, 39: ang_grrr, 40: autopope, 41: daedala, 42: diony, 43: kijjohnson, 44: gummitch, 45: flyingsauce, 46: melymbrosia, 47: daegaer, 48: dougs, 49: flickgc, 50: dalmeny

Please comment in my journal on how you found this tool and what you think of it - thanks!

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Comments

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Interesting. A remarkable number of those not on your friends list are on my friends list - an overlap I haven't noticed before when other people on my friends list have used the tool. I think fandom is responsible in this instance... but I'm not saying anything about bigdaddyfluff.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Did you understand how the algorithm worked? I didn't, and I tried.

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[redbird]

I only skimmed the description, and not really. It seems to be some kind of variant on simulated annealing.

"Trust" is an odd name for it, if only because it winds up telling all my friends that they should trust things like lj_maintenance

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

"Trust" is an odd name for it, if only because it winds up telling all my friends that they should trust things like lj_maintenance

Well, shouldn't they? :-D

[cattitude.livejournal.com]

It's a search of an arbitrarily connected potentially cyclical digraph, finding the nodes you are statistically most likely to reach first from a given node on a random traversal. It could be implemented much more efficiently via coloring.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

That makes sense.

For LJ, this would mean that the person who is most often on the Friend's List of my Friends is on the top of his list. Right?

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[cattitude.livejournal.com]

Exactly, though when you get down a few levels and start having friend*s who can be reached by paths of different lengths it starts to become interesting.

"Trust" does seem to be a strange thing to call it.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Yes. I understand it.

And "trust" does seem to be a misnomer. But it is a weird kind of handshaking distance.

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[green-amber.livejournal.com]

My god, if you don't understand it what hope have we poor mortals?!

There have been discussions all over LJ about how the algorithm works, with much scratching of heads. I am considering starting the Journal of Probabilistic Bucket Related Results..

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

PS YET another result on my Freinds list's Trust Metrics list for Livejardin. Who is actually a MEMBER of the damn thing that we know? (apart fromfragrantzodiack?

(You are the most garden-y so far with what looks like suggestions for 4 gardening communities?)

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

The above explanation makes a lot of sense. I assume he calculates the values using probabilities, and doesn't run a Monte Carlo simulation.

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