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If the chosen stopping point was some other category, would the percentage be lower? Or is this merely a phenomenon that you can eventually reach any category b
by foolswisdom 2y ago
If the chosen stopping point was some other category, would the percentage be lower? Or is this merely a phenomenon that you can eventually reach any category by repeatedly clicking on the first link?
- diginova 2y agoit's not exactly chosen to be the stopping point also check out the video mentioned in comment which explains how the centrality, being in a big loop and being a high indegree node leads to this behaviour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-llumS2rA8I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-llumS2rA8I
- foolswisdom 2y ago(i didn't watch the video but) The method section in the wiki page says > 3. Stopping when reaching "Philosophy", or a page with no links, or when a loop occurs[4] So, philosophy is explicitly chosen by the method as the "positive" occurrence vs its absence. If this is not the case, then wiki is doing a bad job explaining I think.
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- a_wild_dandan 2y agoAs I recall, philosophy is somewhat of a “fixed point”, or attractor. Wherever you start, you’ll land on philosophy, and stay there. You won’t random walk far away again. It makes sense. After all, philosophy is concerned with the fundaments of knowledge, so an article on a knowledge sharing platform could be consistently near philosophy.