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Why is this getting aggressively downvoted? Ironically, there's literally a 2010 math paper entitled "PageRank: Standing on the shoulders of giants[1]." [1] ht
by dvt 3y ago
Why is this getting aggressively downvoted? Ironically, there's literally a 2010 math paper entitled "PageRank: Standing on the shoulders of giants[1]."
[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1002.2858.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1002.2858.pdf
- _aaed 3y agoSame could be said about most innovations; Turing's machine, for example, relies on the work of other mathematicians/logicians. It is true that knowledge is collectively built while profits are only enjoyed by few but PageRank was unique in its own right.