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Re: Has_not_been_viewed_much

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Post by eudamoniac »

coldpie wrote: post #99
ggm wrote: post #16

I used to borrow the books which had "to be disposed if not lent in the next 3 months" slip in them. Never regretted reading them. The best one included a very odd short story by Flann OBrien about a carpenter who walls himself inside the oak panelling of a build he is working on, and a woman convinced Sago farming will cure Ireland's famine.

> Never regretted reading them Interesting! I'm surprised to hear you've had that experience. I pick out books at the library largely by the cover & back blurb, not by whether they're popular or well reviewed or whatever. And to be honest, I've picked out a lot of crap this way, where I turn it back in after just a chapter or two. I suspect that frequency of being checked out & popularity/well-reviewed-ness are corre…

I have around 1200 ebooks in Calibre; around 300 I downloaded on purpose and the rest came in large batches. I have these two groups separated out. I'm pretty sure I've never read one from the batch group that was close to good. The vast majority of books are crap and if you pick at random you're going to pick crap.

Most of my batch books are from Standard Ebooks which, while a noble project, has a serious addiction to publishing dreck no one should waste time reading.

Re: Has_not_been_viewed_much

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Post by tehryanx »

richfreedman wrote: post #102

Pedant here. No, it does not "beg the question". It raises the question. These are not the same thing. See, for instance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question

Pedant here. Using "for instance" here implies that you will be providing an example of how begging the question and raising the question are not the same thing. You've provided a definition and a source, not an example.

Re: Has_not_been_viewed_much

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Post by elliottkember »

xnorswap wrote: post #86
ggm wrote: post #16

I used to borrow the books which had "to be disposed if not lent in the next 3 months" slip in them. Never regretted reading them. The best one included a very odd short story by Flann OBrien about a carpenter who walls himself inside the oak panelling of a build he is working on, and a woman convinced Sago farming will cure Ireland's famine.

I understand the romantic appeal of discovering "abandoned" books and forgotten ideas. However I suspect my reaction to your anecdote is very different to the one that most people might have, because I think that behaviour is harmful to the library. ( A very minor harm, but a harm nonetheless. ) They have identified books that people don't borrow, and have made it clear they want to get rid of them. That's to benefit…

> imagine you develop a product with a number of features with a public API, and telemetry points that a feature goes unused

The cost of maintaining a book is much, much less than a product feature!

Re: Has_not_been_viewed_much

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Post by w-m »

w-m wrote: post #93
Klathmon wrote: post #2

How many of these images are there? I cycled through a few and ended up hitting at least one duplicate [1] that I do actually enjoy (but I can't find the name of it now that I refreshed the page, I know it had the verrazzano narrows bridge in the title) Is there a chance a site like this could ruin their metric by inflating all the views for these lowest viewed items? Or do these not count? [1] https://www.artic.edu/…

Querying the API, there seem to be 112998 artworks with this label as of this moment. (I'm deliberately not posting the direct API call in case it's expensive for them to run. Documentation is found here: https://api.artic.edu/docs/#fields-collections-artworks )

...aaaand we're down to 112997 now.

Re: Has_not_been_viewed_much

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Post by coldpie »

eudamoniac wrote: post #101
coldpie wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Never regretted reading them Interesting! I'm surprised to hear you've had that experience. I pick out books at the library largely by the cover & back blurb, not by whether they're popular or well reviewed or whatever. And to be honest, I've picked out a lot of crap this way, where I turn it back in after just a chapter or two. I suspect that frequency of being checked out & popularity/well-reviewed-ness are corre…

I have around 1200 ebooks in Calibre; around 300 I downloaded on purpose and the rest came in large batches. I have these two groups separated out. I'm pretty sure I've never read one from the batch group that was close to good. The vast majority of books are crap and if you pick at random you're going to pick crap. Most of my batch books are from Standard Ebooks which, while a noble project, has a serious addiction…

Yeah I suspect ebooks are even more dire as they have neither the curation of a publisher putting money into physical production; or the curation of a librarian with limited shelf space.

Re: Has_not_been_viewed_much

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Post by el_io »

xnorswap wrote: post #86
ggm wrote: post #16

I used to borrow the books which had "to be disposed if not lent in the next 3 months" slip in them. Never regretted reading them. The best one included a very odd short story by Flann OBrien about a carpenter who walls himself inside the oak panelling of a build he is working on, and a woman convinced Sago farming will cure Ireland's famine.

I understand the romantic appeal of discovering "abandoned" books and forgotten ideas. However I suspect my reaction to your anecdote is very different to the one that most people might have, because I think that behaviour is harmful to the library. ( A very minor harm, but a harm nonetheless. ) They have identified books that people don't borrow, and have made it clear they want to get rid of them. That's to benefit…

I think I mostly agree with you, but at least OP is reading the books. If someone don't bother to read it after them it'll be marked as abandoned again.

Re: Has_not_been_viewed_much

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Post by zach_garwood »

noduerme wrote: post #63

Just professionally, I'm curious whether they derive has_not_been_viewed_much by some nightly cron process, by an insert trigger on a `user_image_viewed` table, or by some monstrous full table join that HN is currently obliterating.

There's a scheduled task that runs every month to pull the view data from Google Analytics:

https://github.com/art-institute-of-chicago/data-aggregator/...

https://github.com/art-institute-of-chicago/data-aggregator/...

The site hasn't been hugged to death yet,

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