Really was expecting this to be an XKCD thing.
A map of the US where city names are replaced by most Wikipedia’ed resident
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#102They've got an interesting definition of city... Seattle is all one city, but DC has Georgetown, Capitol Hill, and Dupont Circle in addition to a label for the entire city.
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#103It's too bad there are so many duplicates. I think it would be more interesting if it was based on birthplace, since big cities that attract lots of businesspeople/celebrities just get tagged with someone really famous who doesn't have any particular connection with the city (e.g. Elon Musk on Los Angeles, Steve Jobs on basically everywhere in the Bay Area). The Wikidata "place of birth" field would probably be a rea…
The person for my hometown on that website seems to only have been born there but moved away before elementary school, so I'm not sure how that's really all that interesting.
I grew up in Visalia, CA which lists Kevin Costner, the actor. He was in my high school class in my sophomore and part of my junior year when his family moved away. Although his later fame is what puts him there, we had a Nobel Prize-winning physicist actually grow up there but he never won an Oscar. Seems unfair.
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#105Ah fuck, what a good idea and fun project this must have been. How do people come up with awesome ideas like this? Whenever I have time for a personal project it'll be like... "guess I'll uh.... make this LED on a raspberry pi blink... wheee"
I would bet you probably come up with a really good idea about once a week, and that's being conservative.
The trick is just to store them in some always-accessible note taking app (e.g. Evernote, OneNote, Apple's Notes app) as soon as they come to you (i.e. in the middle of a totally unrelated lecture), and accumulate them over a long period of time (talking years here).
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Worldwide, Larry Page is certainly more of a public figure than Magic Johnson." This is HN bubble thinking. Very few regular people know who 'Larry Page' is. Almost everyone knows who 'Magic Johnson' is. Have a look at Google search trends.
Not really. This is people looking at Wikipedia. Guess: Who's the Alan with the most pageviews in Wikipedia? Who's the Steve? I left the answers here: - https://medium.com/towards-data-science/bigquery-without-a-c... Basically a show-off for BigQuery, but to answer this specific question: The most viewed Alan and Steve in Wikipedia are the ones closer to HN. SELECT title, SUM(views) views FROM `fh-bigquery.wikipedia_…
> The most viewed Alan and Steve in Wikipedia are the Silicon Valley ones.
You had me well baffled with this - who is the "Silicon Valley Alan"? The only candidate I could think of was Alan Kay who, with all respect, was never likely to be the most-viewed of all Alans.
(Turns out to mean Alan Turing - I don't think he had any connection with Silicon Valley)
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#107Why isn't Linus used for Portland?! Steve Jobs. Pfft.
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#108Doesn't work for me in Firefox. If web developers aren't going to bother with cross-browser compatibility it'd be nice if they at least went back to telling visitors which browsers they do support.
Works for me (FF on Ubuntu)
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#109This is interesting in large part as a demonstration of how bizarre/indefinite the idea of being "from" a place is. For instance, Cambridge, MA isn't headlined by a famous MIT/Harvard academic, or local political figure, or even Neil Gaiman- but instead by Bhumibol Adulyadej, the previous king of Thailand, who was born there while his father was studying at Harvard, and left at the age of 2. Meanwhile, Boston gets Jo…
No mention of Bruce Springsteen along the entire Jersey shore too.
He's attached to Bradley Beach. Oddly, his actual birthplace (Long Branch) went to Audrey Hepburn's first husband.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
She's a B-list movie star who does some indie stuff. * She was in two of the Twilight films. * Pitch Perfect (trilogy). * Mr. Right. The Accountant. (hitmen with a heart of gold movies). * A Simple Favor. (stepford wife mystery). * Drinking Buddies (a brewery drama, it's great) * Scott Pilgrim vs The World
B-list is pretty harsh. She has an Oscar nomination (albeit 10 years ago), and the Pitch Perfect movies made $$$.
Most people can't name her. She's a great actress. That's not contradictory.