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[mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 9:46 PM
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Subject: Re: Pluto bounces back!
On 6/24/2014 12:39 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Google does not seem to know of its existence.
The net does not know everything, and contains a lot of propaganda of many
kinds.
Bruno
Have you read Scott Aaronson's latest blog in which he discusses the
application of Google technology to the problem to defining morality and
improving democracy?
http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/
Eigenmorality
June 18th, 2014
This post is about an idea I had around 1997, when I was 16 years old and a
freshman computer-science major at Cornell. Back then, I was extremely
impressed by a research project called CLEVER, which one of my professors,
Jon Kleinberg, had led while working at IBM Almaden. The idea was to use
the link structure of the web itself to rank which web pages were most
important, and therefore which ones should be returned first in a search
query. Specifically, Kleinberg defined "hubs" as pages that linked to lots
of "authorities," and "authorities" as pages that were linked to by lots of
"hubs." At first glance, this definition seems hopelessly circular, but
Kleinberg observed that one can break the circularity by just treating the
World Wide Web as a giant directed graph, and doing some linear algebra on
its adjacency matrix.
...
Wow you were a very young freshman. Funny. small world kind of thing, in
2000 I worked for a while at a software startup in Santa Monica, CA (the
digital coast as they call it down there)- most modestly deciding to call
itself - "The Brain". We were using directed graphs to dynamically evolve
topic maps through the link usage as well, but using semantic linkage as the
arc as opposed to address linking as in a uri. It was not an attempt to map
the internet as in your case, but to provide an intuitive topic centric user
interface. When you clicked on one of the topic nodes is expanded and
centered itself on the screen pulling in related topics. The layout
positioning of the rendered topic webs also mattered, with peer being
lateral and parent child layed out in a vertically oriented hierarchy. We
were actually getting kind of sophisticated, for example tracking meta data
for each single arc and weighting individual arcs, based on dynamic factors,
rendering the more prominent arcs with greater thickness and z-order stack
ranking. Branch pruning was a challenge in order to avoid combinatorial
explosion.
But the name. could never quite get past that name. The Brain; I think it is
still around by the way, but it never did stick as the next big UX paradigm.
Cheers,
Chris
Brent
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