Kyle Matthew Oliver

Category: Network Flows

Fun with Wikipedia Networks

May 25, 2011

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Kyle

in Crowdsourcing, Mathematics, Network Flows, Social Networks, Wikipedia, xkcd

So the mouse-over text of today’s xkcd (“Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at ‘Philosophy.’”) has inspired a little playful procrastination. I’d love to put together one of those fun xkcd-style info…
Go With The (Nework) Flow, Part I

Jan 30, 2008

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Kyle

in Algorithms, David Foster Wallace, Euler, GENIUS, Linear Programming, Network Flows, Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Online Dating

Some preliminaries: (1) I couldn’t resist posting a link to this New York Times piece about eHarmony, et al. The “Algorithms of Love” in the headline alone made it worth it. (By the way, I love it when copy editors choose to force “EHarmony” and the like when these ridiculously capitalized words come up at…