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So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it

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Re: So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it

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Post by cnlwsu »

slapshot wrote: post #14

It would be cool to display the excerpts where the links occur. I'm confused by several of them and too lazy to read through each entry to find out why they are linked.

would be very helpful actually... especially since the data is very old and you sometimes have to look at the revision history.

Re: So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it

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Post by bittermang »

gdl wrote: post #2

It seems too eager to go through year and day pages, and doesn't always hit the optimal path: Mike Godwin -> Godwin's law -> Adolf Hitler it gives: Mike Godwin -> 1956 -> 1889 -> Adolf Hitler Also strange is that the "1956" it follows is in the text of, but not linked from "Mike Godwin". Either way, I like the Web 2.0-style Hitler drawings :-)

I would concur about the date thing. It makes it a lot less fun when your path looks like:

  Polycephaly -> August 18 -> Adolf Hitler
When I was able to get their manually by:

  Polycephaly -> Freak Show -> Cannes Film Festival -> France -> Germany -> Hitler
I think just dropping dates from contention, apart from any other contextual algorithm improvements, would put a lot of the fun and discovery back in to it.

Re: So I made something that's pretty stupid but had fun doing it

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Post by chc »

bittermang wrote: post #36
gdl wrote: post #2

It seems too eager to go through year and day pages, and doesn't always hit the optimal path: Mike Godwin -> Godwin's law -> Adolf Hitler it gives: Mike Godwin -> 1956 -> 1889 -> Adolf Hitler Also strange is that the "1956" it follows is in the text of, but not linked from "Mike Godwin". Either way, I like the Web 2.0-style Hitler drawings :-)

I would concur about the date thing. It makes it a lot less fun when your path looks like: Polycephaly -> August 18 -> Adolf Hitler When I was able to get their manually by: Polycephaly -> Freak Show -> Cannes Film Festival -> France -> Germany -> Hitler I think just dropping dates from contention, apart from any other contextual algorithm improvements, would put a lot of the fun and discovery back in to it.

I agree wholeheartedly. Not only is it far too easy to link dates to Hitler, but dates are also likely to be connected to other dates, thus getting even further way from a real connection to the original page and giving two chances at the heightened chance of a hit that dates have. I tried "Mark Zuckerberg", and the path from him to Hitler was:

  December 5th -> 1889 -> Adolf Hitler
When there's a perfectly obvious connection at:

  Jewish -> Adolf Hitler
(which did exist in October 2008, just so nobody else wastes their time checking)
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