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Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
- Schiphol 11y agoAnd a video tour here http://www.sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com/ http://www.sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com/ Prediction: the next big thing in fan wikis will be a similar 6º of, say, Frodo Baggins.
- praptak 11y agoCounterprediction: not enough characters to have a meaningful graph beyond 2-3 degrees.
- 1wd 11y ago"St. Elsewhere is the Kevin Bacon of TV shows" [1] [1] http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/19892/what-is-the-biggest-crossover-universe-in-tv http://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/19892/what-is-the-...
- walterbell 11y agoA further step in this direction would be a git-style dependency graph of influential books, showing how authors were inspired by each other to "fork" and improve ideas.
- bunkydoo 11y agoIt would be kind of neat to extend semantic search and social graphing to older works - really neat to see how different minds' work interweaves throughout history.
- bshimmin 11y agoI'm actually a little shocked that they don't at all mention Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon in this, which surely must have been at least in part the inspiration for it. (The Oracle of Bacon - http://oracleofbacon.org/ http://oracleofbacon.org/ - still cheerfully works after, oh, a decade and a half or so.)
- afandian 11y agoI'm a little shocked that you mentioned Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon without mentioning the Erdős number.
- odabaxok 11y agoAnd to go further the inspiration for Bacon Number is the Erdős Number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number And a fun combination of them is the Erdős–Bacon number (Carl Sagan with 6, Natalie Portman with 7).
- Schiphol 11y agoThen, finally (for now), you have Erdos-Bacon-Sabbath numbers (http://timeblimp.com/?page_id=195 http://timeblimp.com/?page_id=195)