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This would work fine, except in terms of success.
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If you select the weighted random, an algorithm will assign weighted values to all the ideas based on word frequencies that are in the ideas on the recent list. The program then takes the largest weights and sorts them by date. The random idea is then pulled from the three month date range with the most
ideas in this list. It is important to note that the random idea will not be pulled from the weighted list sorted by date, but from the entire archive in the chosen three month range.
This may alter cyclic topic schedules in the bakery and it would be interesting to compile a before and after summary of the dymanics of idea generation.
This would only affect the behavior of those individuals who actually read most of the recent list. To isolate these ideas, the weighted random search would only use ideas posted by people who read the recents. This would require alot of altering, and I know its not going to happen, but it could, and I'm confident that some interesting results may arise.
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So Gumbob, looking at this idea from a different perspective; What behaviour are you currently observing, and what alterations to that behaviour would you expect to see were the idea implemented? |
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The changes you describe may well stimulate some interesting results, but without explaining what they might be, this sounds like a call for a number of complex changes for a completely arbitrary promise of 'les résultats intéressants' (delivered in French to give it that added bit of 'parfum mystérieux' that it seems to deserve...) |
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That parfum has lost its mystérieux: it's the scent of a thousand burning cars. |
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//it's the scent of a thousand burning cars//
"Liberté, fraternité, et egalité" just smells that way sometimes. |
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How do you know that the 'random' button doesn't work this way already? |
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//weighted random searches//
So not random then? |
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I'd just like to say: custard, custard, sphericon, ninja pirates. There: my legacy is safe. |
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Personally, I'm confident that if I could teach my cat to fly she would of her own volition learn how to play the banjo and become a world-famous opera singer. It's easy to be confident of things that aren't going to happen. (That's pure pedantry, by the way, with no malice directed towards the idea itself). |
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