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PageRank is an abomination (mathematically) -- discussion

• enomar 15y ago
  Omitting "(mathematically)" from the title seems misleading.
  • pixcavator 15y ago
    Updated.
• wickedchicken 15y ago
  A summary for those of you who don't have time to wade through poorly-written articles: PageRank, like almost all machine-learning algorithms, has some knobs which you can tweak to get various results. This guy, as an algebraic topologist, hates knobs and calls that "bad math."
  • pixcavator 15y ago
    >>PageRank, like almost all machine-learning algorithms, has some knobs which you can tweak to get various results. PageRank is a machine-learning algorithm? "You can tweak" means Google can tweak not the user...
    • wickedchicken 15y ago
      > PageRank is a machine-learning algorithm? PageRank is the definition of a machine-learning algorithm.