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It would actually be kind of cool if it followed the link graph for the article a couple articles deep, so you could get a customized book of concepts clustered
by kaddar 17y ago
It would actually be kind of cool if it followed the link graph for the article a couple articles deep, so you could get a customized book of concepts clustered around a main topic.
- alan_p 17y agoI think the book would definitely become a lot more interesting that way. Chapter 1: Stacks Chapter 2: Reverse Polish Notation Chapter 3: Australia Chapter 4: Penal transportation Chapter 5: Slavery Chapter 6: Prostitution Chapter 7: Pornography (and I wasn't even trying)
- kaddar 17y agoStack (data structure) Computer science Internet Pornography Bam! Regardless, the assumption that pornography would be in every book assumes that you don't cluster the data to topics with strong clique behavior and normalize the data to remove overly-linked (aka obvious) topics.
- tbgvi 17y agoThat's an interesting idea. I saw that thing earlier today where someone built a Wikipedia Trends. Anyone know of other interesting uses of Wikipedia?
- jcl 17y agoI wouldn't be surprised if that is exactly what this book is doing. The full book title is: "Stack (data structure): Abstract Data Type, Data Structure, Friedrich L. Bauer, Charles Leonard Hamblin High-level Programming Language, Lisp". Go to the Wikipedia Stack article, and just read the article's links in order: computer science, LIFO, abstract data type, data structure, Friedrich L. Bauer, Charles Leonard Hamblin, high level languages, array, linked-list, overrun, Lisp, etc. It looks like they are doing very little editing -- maybe an automated pruning algorithm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_%28data_structure%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_%28data_structure%29