Making Sense of Super Smash Bros. Melee
Interesting article, but this stood out to me.<p><i>It frustrates me to see people in the smash community treat measures like elo as "the truth" because they "don't have any human input". This simply factually incorrect - these so-called objective measures have as much human input as anything else, codified into the constants and design choices of their algorithms. Designing these things is as much an art as it is a science, and the choice on how to weigh placements, upsets, losses, consistency, peaks, and the like are all just that - choices, made by a human sitting in a chair with Sublime Text 3 open.</i><p>I feel like this is applicable nigh everywhere.  From social media timeline sorting, to industrial processes, to Melee rankings.  Using an algorithm doesn't eliminate the human element from a system, it only abstracts it away.