by karlicoss on 3/27/22, 11:35 AM with 1 comments
by sph on 3/28/22, 1:12 PM
> Interactive Ranking Through Sorting
Yes! I've been thinking about sitting down and writing something like this for ages.
Here's the idea for the ones that want a side project: a website of ranked lists. To add a new entry you have to compare it with the existing ones to find its place in the ranking. It's much easier for people to tell you which they prefer between Interstellar and 2001 Space Odyssey than if they had to assign stars out of five, or worse, a rating out of 10.
The goal of the project is being able to tell which are my favourite things (movies, albums, WWE personalities) and always independent from any scoring system.
And it's pretty practical for enormous lists, as it takes log2(n) comparisons to rank an item.