malahay's comments

Hi all!

I wrote a short blog post enumerating the set of practices that I believe are durable and necessary while building an agentic AI product. Hope it's useful for you too

I scraped data between 11/6/14 - 12/6/14 as mentioned in the article, the sub train event from qt was fairly recently so outside of my date range.

The subscribers do appear in the chat, I just sat 5 minutes in trick2g's chat and took a screenshot for you: http://imgur.com/MpOJ4CD

Now we can even get more data such as how frequently they subbed. This information wasn't there in november/december. I've also mentioned in the FAQ that there were cases where the chat would freeze or another problem would occur and I would miss some subs. These are lower bounds but I highly doubt it's also as high as you are thinking. The sub train event is an outlier not part of the norm.

Hello,

* I've set an ad-block rate of 76% for viewers of a stream.

* that's a very good point, and it is not account. It was assumed that everyone gets to see an ad at the same time.

* This was estimated fairly well I think, I used the Riot Games API to figure out when a streamer's game has started. Almost every streamer run a 3 minute ad right before the game starts. So I've found how many viewers there were at that moment and then calculated the ad revenue.

Hope that made it clearer :)

after spending a decent amount of time watching these streamers and participating in the league of legends community, it seems that actually a fair amount of viewers turn off ad-block while watching their favorite streamer. I do it for example, if it means that Pobelter http://www.twitch.tv/pobelter is gonna earn a bit more money.

Yeah, good point. I'll fix it once I get out of class :)

Yeah that's a very good point, I couldn't find any reliable source on twitch's website. I had to dig in many /r/twitch comments to find the cpm and hoped that they were telling the truth. In any case, I am pretty sure that my numbers are really a lower bound for how much money the streamers make. Most streamers receive more donations then subscribers, and donations don't have a fixed cost.

not in any way I could think of. It's usually only shown in the video and sometimes not even then. The chat does write when someone subscribes though, that's how I managed to scrape the subscriptions.

Hi Dan, nope the recurrence is not accounted, I didn't have any way of capturing it :)

Cok tesekkurler :)

Hey thanks a lot for the feedback! The yellow edges represents allies (for example: Hermione-Harry). The green edges are enemies.

That's an interesting idea. As a subnetwork, we allow the viewers to click on one of the four triads and it will only display those edges. However, for T3 and T1 there are so many edges that it's still not that easy to follow :)

Good question :) I was referring mainly to the small world phenomenon [1], there are also some online networks that have ~6 avg path length like Microsoft Messenger [2]. We were just curious how a fictional network would look like.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_experiment [2] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/horvitz/leskov...

That's where we got our data from! This project was done with a team of 4, and everyone entered data while trying to check facts from the Wikia. I realize that there are some edges that are missing and some other characters, but we hoped that this subset of characters and relations would be a good approximate of the real harry potter universe.

If you want to take a look at the data: https://github.com/efekarakus/potter-network/tree/master/dat...

Ah good point, I am sorry about that.

Yup that's right!

That's a great question! I kinda wanted to see if a fictional network would look somewhat similar to a real social network such as Facebook. But exploring other networks that are more secluded would be so interesting! Gathering the data would be a challenge :)