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Peer feedback weighting improves signals and reveals cliques
Peer feedback weighting improves signals and reveals cliques
Applying PageRank-like eigenvector weighting and dropout to continuous peer feedback can produce better performance signals and reveal voting cliques.
- Speaker
- Max Hodak
- Source timestamp
- 18:04
- Context timestamp
- 17:34
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