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52 lines
2.0 KiB
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## About
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This repository creates a react webpage that allows to extract a utility function from possibly inconsistent binary comparisons.
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It presents the users with a series of elements to compare, using merge-sort in the background to cleverly minimize the number of choices needed.
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Then, it cleverly aggregates them, by taking each element as a reference point in turn, and computing the possible distances from that reference point to all other points, and taking the geometric mean of these distances. This produces a number representing the value of each element, such that the ratios between elements represent the user's preferences: a utility function.
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Initially, users could only input numbers, e.g., "A is `3` times better than B". But now, users can also input distributions, using the [squiggle](https://www.squiggle-language.com/) syntax, e.g., "A is `1 to 10` times better than B", or "A is `mm(normal(1, 10), uniform(0,100))` better than B".
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##
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## Object structure
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The core structure is json array of objects. Only the "name" attribute is required. If there is a "url", it is displayed nicely.
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```
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[
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{
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"name": "Peter Parker",
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"someOptionalKey": "...",
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"anotherMoreOptionalKey": "...",
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},
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{
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"name": "Spiderman",
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"someOptionalKey": "...",
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"anotherMoreOptionalKey": "..."
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}
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]
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```
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## Netlify
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https://github.com/netlify/netlify-plugin-nextjs/#readme
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## To do
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- [x] Extract merge, findPath and aggregatePath functionality into different repos
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- [x] Send to mongo upon completion
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- [x] Push to github
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- [x] Push to netlify
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- [x] Don't allow further comparisons after completion
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- [ ] Paths table
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- [ ] Add paths table
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- [ ] warn that the paths table is approximate.
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- However, I really don't feel like re-adding this after having worked out the distribution rather than the mean aggregation
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- However, I think it does make it more user to other users.
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- [ ] Add functionality like names, etc.
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- I also don't feel like doing this
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- [ ] Look back at Amazon thing which has been running
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- [ ] Change README.
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