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Re: Google's "Bacon number" search

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Post by daurnimator »

jerf wrote: post #35
dylanz wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was at a dinner event in New Zealand, started talking to this old guy about random topics, and as it turns out... he has an Erdös number of 1. I was definitely a bit floored as he started to describe what they worked on (in person at one point), especially as most of what he spoke of went right over my head. It was a pretty neat and random thing to experience. As for a "Bacon Number"... I'm giving myself a 1. I act…

That would still be 1. To have a bacon (non-capital) number of 0, you would have to be the bacon.

If you have eaten enough bacon; you are in large quantities, derived from bacon. I think a bacon number of ~0.25 is entirely possible.

Re: Google's "Bacon number" search

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Post by usergenerated »

adgar wrote: post #71
AncientPC wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably because there's no easily accessible data store like IMDB for famous mathematicians or computer scientists.

IMDB data has serious licensing restrictions. I would be extremely surprised if it were used as a source for this.

IMDB, which started in the days of Usenet, was founded on user contributions. In today's parlance, it's built from user generated content (UGC).

It would be surprising to see any suit to enforce the licensing restrictions on a database built from user contributions like IMDB actually go to trial.

We might come away with some interesting answers to the questions of what licensing terms on such databases are truly enforceable (as opposed to mere intimidation).

What happened to that Craigslist lawsuit? How is that progressing?

Re: Google's "Bacon number" search

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Post by dexter313 »

3JPLW wrote: post #34
dexter313 wrote: post #26

7 http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow...

It should be 2. William Shatner was in Loaded Weapon 1 (1993)[0] with Denise Richards[1] Denise Richards was in Wild Things (1998)[2] with Kevin Bacon Source: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse373/11wi/h... [0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107659/fullcredits#cast [1] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000612/ [2] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120890/

This isn't William Shatner.

Re: Google's "Bacon number" search

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Post by ColinWright »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #70
ColinWright wrote: post #66

I have an Erdös number of the first kind of 2, and an Erdös number of the second kind of at most 3. I'm working on my Bacon number. So far I've appeared on television with: Carol Vorderman, Gareth Jones, Angela Rippon, Fred Dineage, and several others that I need to track down, but are even less well known. My challenge is working out who I have been with that might have been in a film.

You were juggling on How2?

Yup - "How do you juggle your numbers?" - the SiteSwap notation in action, with the "jugglometer".

Re: Google's "Bacon number" search

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Post by Jyaif »

chubot wrote: post #41

Hm, it seems like basically any actor you can think of off the top of your head has a Bacon number of 2 (or less). I guess that makes sense. Anyone have some interesting examples of 4+ bacon numbers??

Taylor Rain's Bacon number is 4

Re: Google's "Bacon number" search

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Post by lols »

irishcoffee wrote: post #55
smcl wrote: post #33

Weird, Adolf Hitler is meant to have a Bacon number of 3, but he doesn't return anything on Google. From the Wikipedia page: Adolf Hitler was in Ewige Jude, Der (1940) with Curt Bois Curt Bois was in Great Sinner, The (1949) with Kenneth Tobey Kenneth Tobey was in Hero at Large (1980) with Kevin Bacon

I see little need to waste CPU cycles on him, personally.

edgy as fuck

Re: Google's "Bacon number" search

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Post by c3d »

Not using IMDB sometimes leads to incorrect results. For "Louis de Funès", Google finds a Bacon number of 3:

Louis de Funès and Terry-Thomas appeared in Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!. Terry-Thomas and Tom Aldredge appeared in The Mouse on the Moon. Tom Aldredge and Kevin Bacon appeared in Taking Chance.

The Oracle finds 2: Louis de Funès was in Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973) with Janet Brandt was in Queens Logic (1991) with Kevin Bacon

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