And if you go to the last link in any regular paragraph (not footnotes nor tables, nor references) you may often end up bouncing around sports teams.
Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
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#82Epistemology reigns supreme.
How do you know?
Re: Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
#83This behaves erratically. Sometimes it considers the coordinates link, above the entire article the "first link" (in the "Michael Phelps" chain), sometimes not (Chicago). Consequentially, I believe "Michael Phelps", when the coordinate link is ignored, leads to it's own loop that is not the philosophy loop in question.
Re: Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
#84Puts me in mind of Translation Party[1] (which is back up, kudos to WillC and Rick!). There's a lot to be entertained via this sort of vertex-following algorithm.
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#85This may be hyper naive but is this the consequence of beginning most articles representing the current topic as a more specific form of another topic? For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra "Algebra ... is a branch of mathematics." (mathematics being a link) So if you continue to generalize you'll end up at the most general subject which appears to be philosophy. [update] added an example
ah so thats why the degree is called Doctor of Philosophy?! Thanks for the enlightenment! I've wondered quite a lot of times why I'm a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, and not Doctor of Computer Science.
I get that this is tongue-in-cheek, but philosophy as in "Doctor of Philosophy" doesn't refer to the field of philosophy per se, but to the more general concept of "love of knowledge."
Re: Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
#86Funny... As I was playing with this, somebody changed the order of:
"In philosophy and sociology..."
On the Agency (philosophy) page. This changed the output of the results, but in the end the loop still existed. However, I couldn't help but feel like someone is trying to hack the matrix.
Re: Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
#87This may be hyper naive but is this the consequence of beginning most articles representing the current topic as a more specific form of another topic? For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra "Algebra ... is a branch of mathematics." (mathematics being a link) So if you continue to generalize you'll end up at the most general subject which appears to be philosophy. [update] added an example
ah so thats why the degree is called Doctor of Philosophy?! Thanks for the enlightenment! I've wondered quite a lot of times why I'm a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, and not Doctor of Computer Science.
Traditionally, a university had four faculties, the lower or artists faculty, and the three higher faculties of theology, law and medicine. Students would start in the artists faculty learning the seven liberal arts (grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy (including astrology)) to become a magister artium (M.A.) and then go to one of the higher faculties to get their doctorate (Th.D, LL.D or M.D., respectively). Philosophy and science (née natural philosophy) developed in the artists faculty and over time became important enough to grant the artists faculty the right to grant doctorates, too, with philosophy leading the way. That's why many science faculties, which split off of the artists faculty over the centuries still grant the title of a doctor of philosophy.
Ah, and the first three of the liberal arts that were the first thing a student learned, grammar, rhetoric and logic, were called the trivium, hence the modern word "trivial" for obvious things everyone should know.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
ah so thats why the degree is called Doctor of Philosophy?! Thanks for the enlightenment! I've wondered quite a lot of times why I'm a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, and not Doctor of Computer Science.
I get that this is tongue-in-cheek, but philosophy as in "Doctor of Philosophy" doesn't refer to the field of philosophy per se, but to the more general concept of "love of knowledge."
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Re: Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
#89Seems like it would be nice to cache some of these requests, instead of repeatedly hammering the Wikipedia API. And why is it grabbing images? http://i.imgur.com/KSju9.png (Incidentally, my test case for the screenshot did not lead to Philosophy!)
totally agree. i hacked this together pretty quickly last night. definitely a lot of room for improvement. thanks for the feedback!
It looks like there is a bug where it doesn't fetch the correct page:
Re: Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
#90I have a site: http://TheWikiGame.com that makes a game out of a related idea (finding the connection between Wikipedia articles).
Recently, I've been giving access to the game data to people (like university researchers, etc) to test different theories on path connections made by real people, etc.
The game has now been running for over 3 years, has about 1.19 million players, playing over 1.37 million games, with about 1.22 million won games (successful start/end article connection).
Got a really cool application for all the game data? I'd love to hear: alex@thewikigame.com