Deriving the Reddit Formula – Evan Miller
A few things about Reddit’s hot formula have always bothered me. The formula has obviously been a success when it comes to setting the Internet on fire, but I have to wonder:
Deriving the Reddit Formula – Evan Miller Deriving the Reddit Formula By Evan Miller July 13, 2015 A few things about Reddit’s hot formula have always bothered me. The formula has obviously been a success when it comes to setting the Internet on fire, but I have to wonder: Where do the seemingly arbitrary constants come from, and how do they effect the rankings? Why doesn’t the current time appear in the calculation? Why is there a logarithm? What’s with taking the absolute value of s ? I decided I would try to derive a “hot” formula from expected-utility theory to see if I could shed any ligh
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