As far as I’m concerned, it’s the killer feature of the app. The top 20 results may be noisy, but the bolded results have a signal to noise ratio close to infinity.
False positives become an increasingly difficult problem the more and more potential authors you introduce. If I had wrote a fancier model it probably wouldn't be as much of a problem but what can you do.
The explanation is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755466
As far as I’m concerned, it’s the killer feature of the app. The top 20 results may be noisy, but the bolded results have a signal to noise ratio close to infinity.
The precision of the bolded results looks like maybe 30% to me. Significantly better than the non-bolded, but nowhere near perfect precision.
False positives become an increasingly difficult problem the more and more potential authors you introduce. If I had wrote a fancier model it probably wouldn't be as much of a problem but what can you do.
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Of my top 20, 19 are bold, all are above 0.6, and I have no alts.
Vast majority of my top 20 were bold, except you funnily enough!
None of them are me (and you were the only one I recognised and thought "yeah, I can see where it gets it from"...)
I have 7 bolded names (0.53-0.62) in the top 20 list, and none are alts of mine.
I'm one of them and I can confirm. But then again that's what I'd say if I was.
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Pretty much the exact same. (I do have a throwaway account but I rarely use it and it probably hasn't been used enough to qualify.)
The funny thing is that I thought of it while eating dinner last night :)
My results have 5 bolded users in my top 20, and I have 0 alt accounts.