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This is no joke: 21 clicks from Kevin Bacon to Philosophy. Welcome to the Internet equivalent of a child repeatedly asking, "why?"
This shows a that the program linked is broken. The steps taken, are: 1. Animal House 2. .... Going to the actual Kevin Bacon Wikipedia page, Animal House is clearly italic. The First non-italic, top-level (wrt parens) is Golden Globe
This is no joke: 21 clicks from Kevin Bacon to Philosophy. Welcome to the Internet equivalent of a child repeatedly asking, "why?"
Haha ya, it's crazy. I went to Wikipeida.com, clicked on a random link (Ratko_Mladić), and from there it took me 26 clicks of first links to reach the Philosophy page.
Theres a Wikipedia page on it, it works on 93% of all articles. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Get_to_Philosophy
Fun Interesting that the first three i tried took about 17 hops and got funnelled through the "Life" entry. corndog sensimilia halitosis This took a few less hops and stayed in 'techne': voip. Would love to see these searches graphed. Years ago - one of my favorite sites was Everything2 (still up) - it was run on the slashdot engine. The fun of it was to follow the associated links at the bottom of the entry to see w…
It was a neat symbiosis, especially back before Wikipedia existed. However, they were separate sites. Both Slashcode (which runs Slashdot) and the Everything Engine (which runs Everything2) are written in Perl. Everything was never run on Slashcode, though, AFAIK.
recursion 1. Recursive 2. Recursion uh oh... found a loop recursion -> recursive -> recursion.
Assuming you don't include the links in the "lacks inline citations" box on the recursion page.
Hah. The hypothesis is false, but the script already has that covered via loop detection... nice :) panhard Auverland Panhard uh oh... found a loop panhard -> auverland -> panhard. So far the longest trail I've found, at 25 steps, was from 'ED209' via pottery, through minerals, states of matter, knowledge, finite sets, mathematics... that's one heck of a wikitrail. [edit] Scratch that, 'Horst link' is longer via one…
30 for "Howard Hughes" uh oh... found a loop mathematics -> quantity -> property_(philosophy) -> modern_philosophy -> western_europe -> europe -> continent -> landmass -> landform -> earth_sciences -> science -> knowledge -> fact -> information -> finite_set -> mathematics.
sushi japanese_cuisine japan japanese_language arabic_numerals symbol numeral_system mathematical_notation uh oh... found a loop
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If it finds a loop, can't it go and explore other paths?
Please spend 38.9 seconds trying to understand the very very very simple algorithm that says: Follow the first link that.. . It doesn't say there are alternate choices. If you went with a different link than the first, it would no longer be the first.
XKCD Webcomic Comics Graphic Visual_perception Visible_light Electromagnetic_radiation Energy Physics Natural_science Science Knowledge Fact Information Sequence Mathematics Quantity Property_(philosophy) Modern_philosophy Philosophy 19 steps to philosophy
I wonder if we could say everything leads to science. I also reached philosophy via science. Ratko Mladic (randomly chosen from wikipedia homepage) Army of Republika Srpska Military Use of force Conflict resolution Negotiation Dialogue Literature Fiction Narrative Latin Italic languages Indo-European languages Language family Language Human Taxonomy Science Knowledge Fact Information Sequence Mathematics Quantity Pro…
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philosophy'libertarianism' doesn't end up at philosophy either :)
Though I'm noticing that even before 'mathematics', all my meme-true queries are going through 'science'
also... 'philosopher' doesn't go through via the script page, but on the actual wiki it's redirected straight to 'philosphy'.
Fun page, nice work.