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On 9/14/2012 11:07, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> (in reference to how ridiculously popular Mr Bacon is -
There are people (movie stars) who are more well-connected than Kevin Bacon,
tho.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"They're the 1-800-#-GORILA of the telecom business."
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On 9/14/2012 11:07, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> I believe Erdos number came first,
Back in the 80s, I worked for the guy who (he claims) invented this concept
for scientific papers. "Citation cross-reference indexing." Basically, you
do a literature search by finding an interesting paper, and then finding
other papers that cite some large percentage of the same papers this one
cites, and then continue transitively.
He had cool cluster-plots of science up on the walls, here you'd go "well,
this cluster is neurology, and that one's virology. In neurology, this is
brains, that's eyes, that's other sensory nerves. In brains, this is primate
brains, that's fish brains, that's other mammals. In primates, this is
humans, that's chimps..." Basically, fractal networks of interconnected
papers, with each connection acting like a rubber band, tugging the actual
papers into physical distances from each other. It was pretty cool.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"They're the 1-800-#-GORILA of the telecom business."
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On 15/09/2012 05:27 AM, Darren New wrote:
> On 9/14/2012 11:07, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>> (in reference to how ridiculously popular Mr Bacon is -
>
> There are people (movie stars) who are more well-connected than Kevin
> Bacon, tho.
Yes, apparently so. And, interestingly, I've never heard of any of them.
(Then again, Bacon isn't exactly the most famous actor ever. Maybe it's
that lesser-known actors tend to get more background parts than
well-known actors get lead roles?)
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