Comment by jegp
9 months ago
Is the code for the "feeling lucky" selection mechanism open? Or, do you know how they select papers at random?
9 months ago
Is the code for the "feeling lucky" selection mechanism open? Or, do you know how they select papers at random?
Sure, the repository is open source (linked from the front page).
The selection did not get much thought at all, just a Rust rand shuffle over all ids performed at first page visit and then cached: https://docs.rs/rand/latest/rand/seq/trait.SliceRandom.html#...
I had all IDs already computed for the previous/next article navigation feature, so it seemed fun to reuse them.