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Guess the Correlation (guessthecorrelation.com)
49 points by fluctuation on Nov 9, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 14 comments



Oh! I should have searched it before posting.


Not at all! reposts are ok after a year: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. These links to past threads are just for readers who like to read past threads.


I got a 92! Pretty neat to look at.

It might also be interesting to see actual correlations between things. Seeing that a particular graph is 0.75 correlated is interesting, sure, but it might be more revealing that a particular graph is as correlated as, say, proportion of citizens in a country with college degrees and Nobel Prizes.


Did someone XSS the scoreboard? Going there takes me to YouTube, to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ


Yep, definitely looks that way -- there's a username of:

  <script>window.location.href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ'</script>
With a high score that will clearly top any legitimate score from a player:

  1.7976931348623157e+308


Wow, and I thought the author was just a prankser. I suppose this is the cost of posting to HN.


I tried to share this on facebook and it didn't let me beacause it thinks it is spam! I guess the URL is the victim of false positives in a hashing algorithm. Better than the alternative I suppose.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter


This was fun, I actually got really good after a while (187 with no end in sight).


I seem to either get within either 0.01 or else more than 0.15, no in between. I wish it showed me more information about which ones I miss most.


To me it felt like the R numbers was all over the place.


I got 102 with a mean error of .1 :)


interesting graphics, +1 to the author, do you use a specific library?


Sorry I don't know as I am not the author. I found the game on twitter and posted here. Omar Wagih is the author (https://twitter.com/omarwagih)




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