A small code to illustrate the behaviour of how KaizenHarvester from loklak server project

plot_kaizen_probability.py

"""
Kaizen Harvester - https://github.com/loklak/loklak_server/blob/development/src/org/loklak/harvester/strategy/KaizenHarvester.java
loklak server project - https://github.com/loklak/loklak_server
"""
import random

from matplotlib import pyplot

m = []

for i in range(101):
    fraction = i / 100.
    count = 0
    for j in range(10000):
        n = random.uniform(0, 1)
        if n < fraction:
            count += 1
    m.append((fraction, count))

pyplot.plot(*zip(*m))
pyplot.xlabel("Ratio of queue filled")
pyplot.ylabel("Harvest attempts out of 10,000")
pyplot.title("Harvesting frequency vs. Filled queue ratio")
pyplot.grid(True)
pyplot.show()