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'Revolutionize" may not be appropriate, but I still think the paper is a good post. For anyone with a math/physics background, this is the perfect 3min. introdu
by pjspereira 18y ago
'Revolutionize" may not be appropriate, but I still think the paper is a good post. For anyone with a math/physics background, this is the perfect 3min. introduction to the page-rank algorithm.
- michael_dorfman 18y agoYou think? I'd have thought that anybody with a good math background would better served by something like the "$25B Eigenvector" article focusing on the Linear Algebra aspects of PageRank (http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~bryan/googleFinalVersionFixed.pdf http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~bryan/googleFinalVersionFixed.pd...)
- hugh 18y agoYes, that $25B eigenvector article was the one I read, and having read it, was why I didn't feel like I was getting much new from this paper. I may have been too harsh on the paper, though, because of the headline. It's still kinda neat, just almost-certainly useless.
- pjspereira 18y ago... and the $25B is a good 6+ minute introduction to the page-rank algorithm. The difference between the two perspectives is that the $25B paper treats PageRank as a general eigenvalue problem, while this one treats it as a very specific eigenvalue problem that has been analyzed to death by every student of QM or numerical analysis... including the associated perturbation theory, stability, preconditioning techniques, etc. As a result, the paper is very easy to scan. It is not a magnum opus, but it is cute.