What is Lil Wayne’s PageRank? • Hacker News Board

Re: What is Lil Wayne’s PageRank?

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Post by npkarnik » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 9:38 PM UTC

sheetjs wrote: post #10

FYI: one of your links is broken: > Zillabyte allows easy distributed crawling, using pipe programming to modify streams of tuples The first link currently points to http://docs.zillayte.com/ -- did you mean http://docs.zillabyte.com/

Thanks a lot for the catch.

Re: What is Lil Wayne’s PageRank?

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Post by sbilstein » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 9:57 PM UTC

serve_yay wrote: post #4

npkarnik wrote: post #2

Author here, something I've always wondered: how many software engineers are hip hop heads?

I've always wondered what about rap music makes people do these things with it.

Rap musicians collaborate way more than any other genre except Jazz. I've always been interested in building a map of rap references to other songs. Rap lyrics are highly referential.

Re: What is Lil Wayne’s PageRank?

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Post by sbilstein » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 9:58 PM UTC

npkarnik wrote: post #2

Author here, something I've always wondered: how many software engineers are hip hop heads?

I'm a big one...so are many of my engineer friends. Awesome work!

Re: What is Lil Wayne’s PageRank?

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Post by PaulHoule » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 10:13 PM UTC

npkarnik wrote: post #2

Author here, something I've always wondered: how many software engineers are hip hop heads?

How is it that you've got so many Sucka MC's on this list?

Re: What is Lil Wayne’s PageRank?

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Post by miles932 » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 10:41 PM UTC

npkarnik wrote: post #2

Author here, something I've always wondered: how many software engineers are hip hop heads?

+1: snoop n' dre. all day.

Re: What is Lil Wayne’s PageRank?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 11:05 PM UTC

npkarnik wrote: post #5

stephancoral wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I certainly count as one. And I also agree that Rae and Ghost are by far the best hip hop duo. It'd be really cool if you made this an interactive page.

I'd love to improve the UI. My frontend skills need work, but any suggestions on javascript for interactive graphing? I played with sigma.js for about 15 minutes.

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Re: What is Lil Wayne’s PageRank?

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Post by davidholmesnyc » Thu, Oct 30, 2014, 11:49 PM UTC

npkarnik wrote: post #2

Author here, something I've always wondered: how many software engineers are hip hop heads?

Huge hip hop head here . Great article btw

Re: What is Lil Wayne’s PageRank?

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Post by blt » Fri, Oct 31, 2014, 12:12 AM UTC

> In the next post, I will actually determine the PageRank of our favorite rappers (and Lil Wayne) in a distributed fashion using Zillabyte.

How big is the data set? Does it really need distributed processing?

Re: What is Lil Wayne’s PageRank?

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Post by vicngtor » Fri, Oct 31, 2014, 12:16 AM UTC

Enlightening - I've always wondered who the super node of the hip hop scene is.

Now I do thanks to you!!

Re: What is Lil Wayne’s PageRank?

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Post by eevilspock » Fri, Oct 31, 2014, 12:26 AM UTC

npkarnik wrote: post #9

eevilspock wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey Nikhil. I've been wanting to do some similar link analysis (including PageRank style calculations) as well as clustering. I'm trying to decide between learning Python and R, not much free time for playing with both. What do you recommend and why? Obviously your product uses Python, but please try to be objective. Since your blog posts are clearly marketing (not a criticism), it would be very useful to also show h…

Working on a mixtape right now actually. I can't really speak to R, having barely used it, but Python is definitely better to know in general, given that it is heavily used for scientific computing/data science and many other domains. Zillabyte's original API is actually for Ruby, and we just started supporting Python recently. Ultimately, R vs Python comes down to a preference in tools. R has a large community and i…

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I need to do a lot of data and algorythm R&D on a tight budget (my savings, no income). I wonder whether it would be more cost effective for me to use Zillabyte's platform or code and deploy my own using free toolkits and run it myself on AWS, that is if I can't just run it on my MacBook.