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That is precisely why I chose PageRank as a comparison. I think it is one of the most beautiful equations invented in computer science on par with some physics
by rpedela 8y ago
That is precisely why I chose PageRank as a comparison. I think it is one of the most beautiful equations invented in computer science on par with some physics equations. Yes, if you can turn your problem into a graph then you can use PageRank to determine which nodes are more important relative to the others. You can answer questions like which academic paper or website is the best? Who are the influencers in a social network? What is the summary of this article (sentences are nodes)? But the domains and use cases where it is useful is still limited and so far no one has been able to use it to generate billions other than Google.
In other words, an algorithm, no matter how amazing, is not a platform.