Why do they all go through Mathematics?
Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
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Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#102I'm quite surprised at how many steps it takes to get from Isaac_Newton to Philosophy (31). I'd expected that would be a quick one. I guess that's just a quirk of the "first link" rule though.
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#103I'm quite surprised at how many steps it takes to get from Isaac_Newton to Philosophy (31). I'd expected that would be a quick one. I guess that's just a quirk of the "first link" rule though.
Justin Bieber: 18 steps. I don't know if it is a good thing or not.
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#104Sequence , Information and Fact seem to be big attractors
I wonder what the attractors are for Conservapedia?
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#105This 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
It took me 30 steps to do it manually, following the correct rules.
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#106Funny, but the attractor for Conservapedia seems to be "nation".
http://www.conservapedia.com/Nation
I suspect that's also one of the most common non-stop words on "The Colbert Report".
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#107Hah. 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…
F-111 is 45 steps.
Now 32.
Playing games with an ever evolving game board is... interesting.
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#108This image shows how things end up in Philosophy, by XKCD forumite arotenbe: http://forums.xkcd.com/download/file.php?id=29727&mode=v... Looking at these stats shows how viral this meme/trivia got: http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Philosophy http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Mathematics http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Reason I posted these stats on a FB status a couple of days ago because of the sudden spike. Now that sudd…
On that chart, Greeks points to to other pages. How can Greeks have two first links?
That was my question, too. There doesn't seem to be a disambiguation that would apply, either. "Greek Language" shouldn't point to "Indo-European languages", it should point to "Greeks". I can't figure out how that went wrong, either, but it is interesting to see a cycle in an acyclic graph. :)
Re: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy
#109From my limited clicks, it seems like both science and mathematics are even faster to get to in this method than philosophy.
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#110Anyone try generating a map of Wikipedia?