On: Show HN: Concept of a marketplace for machine learning datasets

[jamesblonde]

It appears TrueSkill is patented - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueSkill

[justinclift → jamesblonde]

Ugh, that's a fairly egregious patent. It's literally of a mathematical method. :(

[_v7gu → justinclift]

Just say yours does lower bound of Wilson score confidence interval for a Bernoulli parameter [0]. It has been used for sorting shopping items by ratings for years.

[0] http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....

[justinclift → _v7gu]

Thanks, didn't know about that. :)

[Chris2048 → justinclift]

Doesn't the language tie it necessarily to the application? i.e., player skill determination?

[justinclift → Chris2048]

I'm not a lawyer, so no idea.

If a person figured out a way to apply it usefully to some other area - which doesn't seem hard at all - (job skill ranking? :D), MS is the kind of company that would attempt to collect $$$ from it regardless. :(

[bussiere → jamesblonde]

Or a ELO system