Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia
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#2This is fabulous! Got from cheese to postmodernism in two hops [1]. Really excellent work, and thanks for making it open source!
[1] https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Cheese&target=...
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#3Would be cool to see the paths ranked in order of “narrowness”, e.g. ranking a path with shorter, more specific articles more highly than a path that goes through a mega-page like “France”.
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#4Created an account just to say this: First time in a long time I've seen something this fun on Hacker News. Just spent the last 10 minutes trying to see the hidden connections between Bagels and the Atlantic Puffin. Great work!
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#5This is why I come on HN. Skeleton to Neon in two steps
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#6This was fun. It somehow connected towels and croissants.
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#7This 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
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#8Brigadeiro to Half-Life in 3 steps. Seems interesting.
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#9Very 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 to what I said I was coming to look up. And she's always like "how did that happen?" And I never have a good answer. But now I do (if it involves Wikipedia)!
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#109 paths with 3 steps from Gluon to Lemur.
No way this is going to be addictive. Disappears for days
Edit: I finally got 4 steps! Clitoris->Dictation
I am a child.