Could you make it possible to just test with the fun suggestions that scroll through?
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#12This is brilliant. For a long time I have had a 'motorway game' I play with my brother in law where we identify two cars on the road and then have to come up with the connection. So often you see badge engineered vans where one partner, e.g. Nissan rather than Renault, makes the van as seen, so you can match the other partner, e.g. Renault, in this game, since they are the same company, then the next vehicle, e.g. some Mercedes car, how do you get the link, and prove it when at motorway speed?
Clearly this app makes it effortless, you could find some supplier like Recaro actually make the seats in both, even the van. Or you could find some joint venture in Brazil that both companies share, who knows... So I look forward to using this app on the M4 some time soon!
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#13Creator here. Six Degrees of Wikipedia is a side project I've been sporadically hacking on over the past few years. It was an interesting technical challenge and it's fun to play with the end result. Here's the tech stack:
* Frontend: React (Create React App)
* Backend: Python Flask
* Database: SQLite
* Web (frontend) hosting: Firebase Hosting
* Server (backend) hosting: Google Compute Engine (it runs fine on a tiny f1-micro instance)
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#14This reminds me of that thing back around 2010 where if you clicked the first* link on any wikipedia page you'd eventually get to the article on philosophy or something. I forget which it was exactly, and I have no idea if it still works, but it was pretty fun back then trying to find a starting article that couldn't find the "philosophy" article. *Non-italicised because of the disambiguation suggestions
I thought it was that if you clicked the first link you'd get to WW2 or Hitler. Was a dumb game to play in the library at school at lunch
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#15Brigadeiro to Half-Life in 3 steps. Seems interesting.
That is the closest the number 3 has been to Half-Life.
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#16This makes the "How many clicks to Hitler" game much faster.
For those uninitiated, the game was to click the "Random Article" link in the sidebar and count how many links it took to get to Hitler. It is really interesting to see just how big of an event WWII was. Every country article has a section on their involvement or why they were not involved.
After playing with it more, this is pretty fun. I vote that a "degrees from Hitler" score be added to the top of every article. I think it might be an interesting proxy for how esoteric a particular page is.
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#17Can you create an option to find the most distant connection for a topic?
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#18Very cool. And a lot less degrees of freedom between my tests than I expected - so far everything has a legitimate 3 degrees when I expected much more. Higgs Boson to Taylor Swift in 3 steps, amazing. Not only that, but 91 ways to get there in just 3 steps. This basically quantifies what my wife and I jokingly refer to "rabbit-holing" online. She'll ask me what I'm reading and it will be something totally unrelated t…
something perhaps out of the box will lead to 4. Example: ancient language --- tv series
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#19This reminds me of that thing back around 2010 where if you clicked the first* link on any wikipedia page you'd eventually get to the article on philosophy or something. I forget which it was exactly, and I have no idea if it still works, but it was pretty fun back then trying to find a starting article that couldn't find the "philosophy" article. *Non-italicised because of the disambiguation suggestions
It's from the alt text of xkcd: https://xkcd.com/903/
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#20This reminds me of that thing back around 2010 where if you clicked the first* link on any wikipedia page you'd eventually get to the article on philosophy or something. I forget which it was exactly, and I have no idea if it still works, but it was pretty fun back then trying to find a starting article that couldn't find the "philosophy" article. *Non-italicised because of the disambiguation suggestions
It still works. Technically it can be any of the following 25 articles because once you hit Philosophy, it loops through:
Philosophy > Knowledge > Fact > Education > Learning > Evidence > Logic
> Ancient Greek > Greek language > Modern Greek > Colloquialism
> Vernacular > Human > Neontology > Biology > Natural science > Science
> Latin > Classical language > Language > Communication > Subject (philosophy)
> Subjective consciousness > Consciousness > Quality (philosophy) > Philosophy