Try my new trust metric!

[ciphergoth]

I have implemented my new trust metric, and applied it (fairly crudely) to LiveJournal friends lists as an experiment. The result is a tool that tells you who is "closest" to your friends list who isn't actually on it, like "popfriends" but more sophisticated.

Who is closest to your friends list?Let me know how plausible the results seem to you

Comments

[senji]

Unfortunately, it doesn't refresh when you change your fiends list.

[ciphergoth]

Quite so; if it didn't cache friends lists it would be impossible to run! However, I plan to write a daemon that reaps stale cache entries after three days. Check back in three days...

[senji]

Well, very slow anyway!

I'm trying to figure out some way of displaying the O(2 friendships) graph of a user's friends web, unfortunatly an O(10000 node) graph is a bit big!

[taral]

1. The cache should expire daily. :)
2. It shouldn't count deleted journals.
3. A "Livejournal Connect"-style feature would be really cool...

[ex_dumbgenius]

1. The cache should expire daily. :)

wha? it's already excruciatingly slow. by the time it is finished, the cache would have expired :)

[zarquonia]

I have very few public posts on my journal... would it work better if I friended you temporarily so it could guage my entire journal or is that not how it functions?

Then again, friending you might skew my results!

[ciphergoth]

It only looks at friends lists, nothing else.

[zarquonia]

ah. Thanks!
L

[dj_alexander]

How exactly is this more sophisticated than Popfriends? Is it just the weighting it gives different levels or is there more to it?

(Ref: http://www.livejournal.com/friends/popwithfriends.bml)

[_come_undone_]

Yeah that was going to be my answer!

[asciident]

I'm curious as well, since mine deviates slightly from what popwithfriends tells me.

[snaggle_dolly]

You're a clever man! I don't know people can think of these things, Lx