Interesting article entitled Trust Isn’t Transitive (or, “Someone fired a gun in an airplane cockpit, and it was probably the pilot”) about a recent accidental/negligent discharge in a 747 by a pilot’s gun: Let’s look at this quote from the article in question, attributed to Mike Boyd: “if somebody who has the ability to fly [...]
Just saw this demo of an algorithm that rates the trustworthiness of Wikipedia articles. It computes the “trust” of authors by how long their edits stick around, then applies that to articles. (via Slashdot) I wonder how it works on entries that are intentionally misleading, like the entry on Discordianism.
