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Post by irishsultan » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 1:38 PM UTC

endorphone wrote: post #242

jwngr wrote: post #240

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The graph is most definitely directed. One small example is Facebook -> Narcissism (1 path of 1 degree)[1] compared to Narcissism -> Facebook (8 paths of 2 degrees)[2]. [1] https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Facebook&targe... [2] https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Narcissism&tar...

Philosophy links to neither sexism or "The Demographics of Africa" (and while some older version might link to sexism, it seems unlikely that it ever linked to the Demographics of Africa"). Both of those do link to Philosophy, however. Alternately it is directed, except when it doesn't find an easy route and uses an undirected result.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 1:53 PM UTC

Stratoscope wrote: post #279

larkeith wrote: post #159

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There's a certain irony to the lack of tact in this post suggesting better manners. I suspect the point would be better received were it more politely made. I, of course, am merely propagating the cycle.

When I was a kid my mom told me "always say 'please' and 'thank you'." So from then on, when I wanted something, I said "please and thank you." I think this was my first social hack. I just wish it had worked better!

Post by thrownaway954 » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 2:10 PM UTC

jwngr wrote: post #209

thrownaway954 wrote: post #79

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make it so that if I visit the page and just click the "go" button, it will use the placeholder examples as the start and end points. i did this and got an error message stating "You'll probably want to choose the start and end pages before you hit that." that was annoying. the placeholders that were auto chosen were actually really interesting.

This has been fixed[1] and should behave in a more intuitive way now. Thanks for the suggestion! [1] https://github.com/jwngr/sdow/commit/6e42e06488a592784e5d3d2...

Post by johnhenry » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 2:33 PM UTC

jwngr wrote: post #13

Creator 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…

Post by johan_larson » Tue, Feb 27, 2018, 3:01 PM UTC

purell_hack wrote: post #178

After 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...