http://wikiloopr.com/whale
"Whale" leads to the "pinniped"/"marine mammal" loop. How about that one?
Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
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#102Oh, I think I found one that doesn't loop: Port Arthur http://wikiloopr.com/Port%20Arthur Either that, I found a bug.
Not as dramatic but http://wikiloopr.com/Nelson ends up with Great Britain (and then claims it loops to itself with no intermediaries).
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#103"HTML5 Canvas" gets into a loop on Truth ... Fact ... Truth. Not the usual philosophy loop.
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#104ironically, starting at "strange loop" avoids the repetitive philosophical argument
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#105After having twenty tries that got me into the philosophy loop, I started to think what are the most basic concepts that philosophy is "made of". Maybe I could escape the loop that way? And lo and behold, I tried word "word" and it loops between "emotion" and "psychology". http://wikiloopr.com/word
I fixed that.
So did you edit Wikipedia to ensure the Philosophy loop?
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#106From a mathematical perspective, this is actually not that surprising. Think of the act of clicking the first link in the Wikipedia article as a function that takes in the page you're on and outputs another page. If you call this function on itself over and over again (ie use the output of one step as in the input of the next step), you will eventually enter a loop. The proof of this is simple: there are only a finit…
After the first few runs, i'm kinda surprised it's not a fixed point at Philosophy.
Back in May of 2011, it was. http://ai.stanford.edu/~west1/attractor.html
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#107Earlier 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.
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.…
Really cool comment, I love finding interesting trivia in forums.
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#108I 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 ab…
Maybe the interesting part is the 150,000 lost games.
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#109Re: Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
#110ironically, starting at "strange loop" avoids the repetitive philosophical argument
That works because somebody is being funny, and created a self referential strange loop inside Wikipedia.
That's a good find you found. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_loops