Nice job. Reminds me of wikispeedia: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/
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#222Seems when I search a person, its mostly LinkedIn and twitter to the other match.
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#223Erlang programming language to Barbra Streisand crashed the browser tab :)
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#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just adding "Could you" to the start (and change first sentence's . to ?) would make a world of difference
If you can automatically detect sentences where adding "Could you" would make the author sound more tactful, then why not just mentally add them and assume that the author intended to sound that tactful? This is a slight modification of the principle of charity, something I think is incredibly important and underemphasized, especially for online text communication.
The link in your profile is broken, FYI.
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#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
'Please' and 'thank you' go a long when requesting additional features for an OSS project.
It's a suggestion, not a request and a good one at that. So who should be saying 'thank you' here (if anyone)?
There’s a human being at the other end of the line. They have feelings. This is their baby, which they’ve gestated for multiple years.
Rational fundamentalism is not the one ring to rule them all. There is room for love and compassion in the world. I know (painfully well) that Internet forums (and this one in particular) anything but empower empathy, but that doesn’t make it any less true or valuable.
There is room for love and empathy. There really is. Logical, rationalistic supremacy notwithstanding.
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#226The longest path I was able to find is this 5-step path:
https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Red%20Solo%20C...
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#227The longest path I was able to find is this 5-step path: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Red%20Solo%20C...
Disambiguation pages are a good source for bad endpoints (here's a 6-er): https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Disambiguation...
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#228Can you add a link to the title image to go back to the homepage? I try this on pretty much every website out of muscle memory.
I just added the query string stuff in the URL this morning and didn't even think about this issue. Just made the change as you suggested[1]. Thanks!
[1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow/commit/b9164b4455661d7775aeb78...
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#229Wow, this is awesome work! Two of my classmates and I made something related for our college capstone project: https://wikitree.website If the creator happens to read this comment, I'd love to compare notes!
Very cool! Your UI is great. I like all the animations and the graph is super smooth. All my code is open source[1] and it is decently documented. I'm happy to answer any questions you have and you're more than welcome to use any of the code I wrote for your project.
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#230After spending way too much time I got 9 degrees of separation. I did piggyback off of someone else's work with "Phinney". https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Lion%20Express... I found a ton of 5 degree paths and only a couple of 6 degree ones. Then I pulled out the "big guns" (the dead-end pages category). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dead-end_pages_from_F...
I don't know if this is legit. The Lion Express node only connects to a couple of Wikipedia's generic help pages, which I'm pretty sure don't link back to Lion Express.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching