- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:13:44 -0400
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- CC: www-talk <www-talk@w3.org>
Hi, Dan- This is great stuff. Is there a Web-facing installation that I can explore without digging into the source myself? Regards- -Doug Schepers W3C Team Contact, SVG and WebApps WGs Dan Connolly wrote (on 4/14/10 11:09 AM): > Some of us have been noodling around... > Open User Community Development > http://www.w3.org/2008/OUCD/wiki/Main_Page > > I found a python implementation of the advogato trust metric, > but I'm struggling to get my head around it. > > So I wrote a little piece of code to simulate growth of > a social network; people join, and they friend/follow/certify > others with certain probabilities. Also, with some > probability, they joined the network to exploit it > rather than to contribute; i.e. they're evil. > Evil folks sometimes certify other evil folks, > but contributors know better. The python code writes > out each step of the simulation in JSON. > > Then some javascript code, using Raphael, animates it. > Contributors are blue; spammers are red. > > The outcome of the trust metric calculation is a 1 or 0 > after the name; it represents whether the agent is > certified or whatever. > > To get the code and run it (assuming you have > both hg and bzr installed): > > connolly@pav:~/projects$ hg clone http://bitbucket.org/DanC/socialsim/ > destination directory: socialsim > requesting all changes > adding changesets > adding manifests > adding file changes > added 12 changesets with 22 changes to 13 files > updating working directory > 13 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved > connolly@pav:~/projects$ cd socialsim/ > connolly@pav:~/projects/socialsim$ bzr branch lp:dracula > Branched 12 > revision(s). > connolly@pav:~/projects/socialsim$ mv dracula/js dracula-js > connolly@pav:~/projects/socialsim$ python socialsim.py>,states.js > connolly@pav:~/projects/socialsim$ firefox socialpg.html > > Then click "Next" to see the steps. > > For screenshots of a few steps, see: > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2010Apr/0019.html > > Note how the evil red circles remain around the edges of the network and > never manage to penetrate toward the middle. > --
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