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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 t
by bittermang 16y ago
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.
- chc 16y agoI 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)
- cnlwsu 16y agoJewish -(redirect)-> Jews -> Adolf Hitler. Both are 3 but December is first in alphabetical so it was the first one recorded.
- mahmud 16y agoI find it viscerally painful to see the casual association. 6000 years of culture and all you can think of is some delusional scumbag.
- mgrouchy 16y agoThere might be 6000 years of culture, but this app finds degrees of separation(i guess) between wikipedia articles and adolf hitler(that is its purpose). So the association isn't casual and in relation to Adolf Hitler its pretty on topic.
- knieveltech 16y ago"3000 years of beautiful tradition from Moses to Sandy Cofax, you're goddamn right I'm living in the past!" - Walter Sobchak First thing that popped in my head. Yeah, here come the downvotes.
- mahmud 16y agoFWIW, it pisses me off that this Hitler character is so closely identified with Jews. Must every mention of Judaism be associated with this monster, and vice versa?
- Groxx 16y agoOn The Internet? Yes.
- aw3c2 16y agoDisclaimer: I am a young german. Apparently yes, jewish associations and/or Israel remind us all the time about it. The only other thing about Jews I know are the terrible crimes they do in Palestine. But obviously that's not what they shout from the rooftops.
- mahmud 16y agoHolding all Jews accountable for the actions of Israel is almost as conscionable as holding you responsible for Hitler's actions, or holding me responsible for Bin Laden's. I.e. it's utter bullshit.
- aw3c2 16y agoMisunderstanding: I simply meant that every time I hear the word "jew" (for example in the news) it is either about the holocaust or Israel.
- Jach 16y agoWhile it could be a subset of Israel, various forms of Zionism also come to my mind. It's interesting how the Israeli PR is so effective in some cases (like in US government) and so ineffective in others. Of course I have to remind myself that P(bad person | jewish) isn't significantly different from P(bad person | not jewish), we're all human.
- klbarry 16y agoYes, please take away all dates!