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I wonder if someone can use the PageRank algorithm or something similar to determine which essays are the most prominent. It's hard to tell with this graph whic

by kylec 18y ago

I wonder if someone can use the PageRank algorithm or something similar to determine which essays are the most prominent. It's hard to tell with this graph which is the most connected essay - is it "Taste for Makers", "What You Can't Say", "Great Hackers", or something else? It would also be interesting to correlate this with the Google PageRank for these pages, and traffic data (if it's available).

RiderOfGiraffes 18y ago
OK - done that ... http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/PaulGrahamEssaysRanking.html?YC_News http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/PaulGrahamEssaysRanking.html?Y...
- michael_nielsen 18y ago
  URLs are malformed. Otherwise, nice. When you say it's "similar" to PageRank on your webpage, what do you mean?
  - RiderOfGiraffes 18y ago
    Re malformed - fixed. I've just pulled the description from WikiPedia, implemented pretty much that, and that's what I did. In essence, each page gets set to 1.0. Then distribute 80% of that down each outgoing link, and 20% to everyone equally. Lather, rinse, repeat. I think that's pretty much the algorithm. Pages pointed to by pages with lots of juice get lots of juice. Pages pointed to by no one, or only pages with little juice, get little juice. It's linear algebra thought of as network flow. Well, that's what I did.
pg 18y ago
Here are the ones that get the most traffic, with daily page views: 1760 Stuff 770 What You'll Wish You'd Known 403 How to Start a Startup 365 Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy 349 Why Nerds are Unpopular 294 How to Do what You Love 274 Web 2.0 247 Great Hackers 207 How to Make Wealth 187 Lies We Tell Kids
- ph0rque 18y ago
  "Stuff" is my sending the given link to my female relatives to dissuade them from, or to reduce their practice of, being packrats. I'm pretty sure there are other users out there that do the same...
  - pg 18y ago
    You're right. There are rarely referring urls for it, which implies that it spreads primarily by email.
DougBTX 18y ago
In PageRank order: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3awww.paulgraham.com http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3awww.paulgraham.com Google has a good PageRank implementation, though it isn't open source.
- RiderOfGiraffes 18y ago
  > In PageRank order: > http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3awww.paulgraham.com http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3awww.paulgraham.com > Google has a good PageRank implementation, though it > isn't open source. Yes, but doing what you've done here gives the entire site, whereas implementing it from the definition allows you to compute the actual values, as I did. Of course, Google have twoke their algorithm so it's no longer exactly as they originally published, and they're not telling anyone what it actually does. Using the "clean" version is at least transparent.

by kylec 18y ago

RiderOfGiraffes 18y ago

OK - done that ... http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/PaulGrahamEssaysRanking.html?YC_News http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/PaulGrahamEssaysRanking.html?Y...

michael_nielsen 18y ago
URLs are malformed. Otherwise, nice. When you say it's "similar" to PageRank on your webpage, what do you mean?
- RiderOfGiraffes 18y ago
  Re malformed - fixed. I've just pulled the description from WikiPedia, implemented pretty much that, and that's what I did. In essence, each page gets set to 1.0. Then distribute 80% of that down each outgoing link, and 20% to everyone equally. Lather, rinse, repeat. I think that's pretty much the algorithm. Pages pointed to by pages with lots of juice get lots of juice. Pages pointed to by no one, or only pages with little juice, get little juice. It's linear algebra thought of as network flow. Well, that's what I did.

pg 18y ago

Here are the ones that get the most traffic, with daily page views: 1760 Stuff 770 What You'll Wish You'd Known 403 How to Start a Startup 365 Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy 349 Why Nerds are Unpopular 294 How to Do what You Love 274 Web 2.0 247 Great Hackers 207 How to Make Wealth 187 Lies We Tell Kids

ph0rque 18y ago
"Stuff" is my sending the given link to my female relatives to dissuade them from, or to reduce their practice of, being packrats. I'm pretty sure there are other users out there that do the same...
- pg 18y ago
  You're right. There are rarely referring urls for it, which implies that it spreads primarily by email.

DougBTX 18y ago

In PageRank order: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3awww.paulgraham.com http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3awww.paulgraham.com Google has a good PageRank implementation, though it isn't open source.

RiderOfGiraffes 18y ago
> In PageRank order: > http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3awww.paulgraham.com http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3awww.paulgraham.com > Google has a good PageRank implementation, though it > isn't open source. Yes, but doing what you've done here gives the entire site, whereas implementing it from the definition allows you to compute the actual values, as I did. Of course, Google have twoke their algorithm so it's no longer exactly as they originally published, and they're not telling anyone what it actually does. Using the "clean" version is at least transparent.