Yesterday, I posted the results of my quick exploration of whether sorting the list {0,1,2,3,4} using a comparison function that randomly returns < or > (with equal probability). My exploration was prompted by a report on the non-uniformity of the distribution of the random orderings of the browsers in Microsoft’s EU browser ballot. I had [...]
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Posted 24 February 2010
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Also tagged: algorithms, browser, browser ballot, bubblesort, eu, european union, math, mathematica, mathematics, mergesort, microsoft, nb, quicksort, selectionsort, sort, sorting, sorting algorithms
An Ars Technica “etc” post linked to a TechCrunch article (apparently based on a Slovakian article, but I didn’t look into the Slovakian article to be sure) that talks about the ordering of the browsers in Microsoft’s EU Browser Ballot not being uniformly distributed. At a glance at the Javascript that does the randomizing of [...]
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Posted 23 February 2010
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Also tagged: browser, browser ballot, eu, european union, ie8, internet explorer, javascript, math, mathematica, mathematics, microsoft
The reworking of my site that shows comparative statistics on every site based on the code from LiveJournal is now up and live and at a new URL: http://lj-stat.2718.us/. Moreover, there are now graphs of the data over time. The data is updated at noon and midnight central time (U.S.). One of the things that [...]
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Posted 22 October 2008
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I’m currently working on an overhaul of LJ-Stat. It looks like there’s some issue in using curl_multi_exec() in PHP with too many requests at once causing some requests to fail strangely, potentially accounting for the lack of data from several sites that are clearly not down and clearly provide stats.txt. My current workaround is to [...]
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Posted 12 October 2008
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Also tagged: bloty, chart, commiejournal, graph, historical data, history, iziblog, livejournal, livelogcity, lj, lj clone, lj code, LJ-Stat, stat, stats
I’m wondering if I’d gain anything from putting a small Google AdSense unit or maybe an AdSense link unit on the LJ-Stat page. And by “gain anything” I mean get a few cents to help pay my hosting bills. It could be relatively unobtrusive… It’s just that, thus far, I’ve avoided putting any ads on [...]
To the best of my knowledge and research, my LJ-code-base Site Statistics page (lj-stat) has the most comprehensive list of sites running off of LiveJournal’s codebase (if you know of any that I’ve missed, please let me know). The main point, though, is the comparative statistics. This is where things get strange. LJ and most [...]
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Posted 13 April 2008
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Also tagged: blogonline.ru, bloty, blurty, calieda, cj, commiejournal, crazylife, deadjournal, dj, gj, greatestjournal, ij, insanejournal, iziblog, journalfen, livejourbal, livejournal, livelogcity, lj, lj.rossia.org, lostjournal, scribbld, scribblit, stats, sviestaciba
http://2718.us/lj-stat/ is a page giving some comparative statistics on various LJ-code-based sites. The underlying data is updated approximately daily. All numbers are based on what is supposed to be the “raw” data at /stat/stats.txt, even though on some or all sites there are significant discrepancies between the numbers reported in /stats/stats.txt and those shown at [...]