This is no joke: 21 clicks from Kevin Bacon to Philosophy. Welcome to the Internet equivalent of a child repeatedly asking, "why?"
Three, actually. Kevin Bacon > Meme > Philosophy.
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#42Also try turning off spell check or writing something significant on paper and see how well we do these days.
Actually spell check, has made me a better speller. Of course in the old days when the apple ][ dominated the personal computer space you had to save your word processing file, exit the word processor, switch floppy disks, start the spell checker, switch the disk for the dictionary disk, run against your file, approve/reject suggested changes, save the file, exit the spell checker, switch to the floppy disk with the word processor on it, start the word processor load your file, find the things the spell checker flagged as wrong but couldn't find a correct word for and fix those.
Seriously, it was just easier to get better at spelling.
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#43turtles --> 14 steps to philosophy
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#44Fun
Interesting that the first three i tried took about 17 hops and got funnelled through the "Life" entry.
corndog sensimilia halitosis
This took a few less hops and stayed in 'techne': voip.
Would love to see these searches graphed.
Years ago - one of my favorite sites was Everything2 (still up) - it was run on the slashdot engine. The fun of it was to follow the associated links at the bottom of the entry to see where it would take you.
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#45This is no joke: 21 clicks from Kevin Bacon to Philosophy. Welcome to the Internet equivalent of a child repeatedly asking, "why?"
minor correction: 20 clicks
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#46Hah. The hypothesis is false, but the script already has that covered via loop detection... nice :) panhard Auverland Panhard uh oh... found a loop panhard -> auverland -> panhard. So far the longest trail I've found, at 25 steps, was from 'ED209' via pottery, through minerals, states of matter, knowledge, finite sets, mathematics... that's one heck of a wikitrail. [edit] Scratch that, 'Horst link' is longer via one…
If it finds a loop, can't it go and explore other paths?
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#47I tried and I end up in an infinite loop between science, philosophy, knowledge/epistemology, and language.
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#48I tried and I end up in an infinite loop between science, philosophy, knowledge/epistemology, and language.
"philosophy" is the halting condition
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#49This is no joke: 21 clicks from Kevin Bacon to Philosophy. Welcome to the Internet equivalent of a child repeatedly asking, "why?"
This shows a that the program linked is broken. The steps taken, are:
1. Animal House 2. ....
Going to the actual Kevin Bacon Wikipedia page, Animal House is clearly italic. The First non-italic, top-level (wrt parens) is Golden Globe
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#50This is no joke: 21 clicks from Kevin Bacon to Philosophy. Welcome to the Internet equivalent of a child repeatedly asking, "why?"
Three, actually. Kevin Bacon > Meme > Philosophy.
This statement shows a gross misunderstanding of the rules.
Meme is quite far down the page. It is well after many links that are neither italicized nor inside parens. The statement whose veracity is being checked says First link (plus some other parameters).