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Re:Random Chance?
How it made it is likely simple graph theory on the web of connections leading out from you. I don't know if you've played with the oracle of Bacon, but you can plug in two random actors, and see how many degrees of separation there are. I've had a hard time getting that above 3, even picking a long dead actor and one new in the industry. That said, the entertainment world is pretty small, but we're a lot more tightly connected than most people think.
Now as to why it showed that connection is a different matter. Maybe they had some sort of algorithm that figured out a slightly higher probability of connection, maybe it was just pure chance.
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Re:All fucking journos must fucking die
PageRank is designed around the 'random surfer' model (15% chance to jump to a random webpage) and returns the probability that a surfer will arrive back at the same page after a large number of links. A node that only has two edges can easily have the highest PageRank.
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Re:Wikipedia
According to the Oracle of Bacon, Hitler has a Bacon number of 4, so you must be correct.
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Re:Djikstra's Algorithm
If you would to dig deeper, look here:
http://oracleofbacon.org/how.php
Though, my guess is they didn't implement their own heap and just used the a language provided one (not to say learning how to make one isn't worth while).
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Most Connected
I haven't seen anybody link to this site yet. To see who is the center of the hollywood universe:
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Re:Another Brian
Brian May has an Erdös Number of 7, a Bacon number of no more than 3, and a Sabbath number of 1, thus putting him squarely at the centre of the universe.
http://rosschurchley.com/2009/10/18/brian-mays-erdos-bacon-number/
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Re:incredible artist rendition
Two.
According to that site, Forest Whitaker is a better Bacon than Kevin, so the late Mr. Davis is probably quite well linked to most actors.
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Re:It's Bacon, not Shakespeare!
That's FRANCIS Bacon, you insensitive clod!
How's this:
William Shakespeare wrote Romeo + Juliet which starred Leonardo DeCaprio who starred in Gangs of New York with Tim Pigott-Smith who was in Sweet William with Melvyn Bragg who was the narrator in Francis Bacon.
W
(thanks to the Oracle.)
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Re:Degree
Who the heck is Kevin Bacon?
An actor. See The Oracle of Bacon, which draws connections (through movies they've been in) between Kevin Bacon and any other actor you can think of.
A person's "Bacon Number" indicates how many steps away from Kevin Bacon they are, for example someone who has been in a movie with Kevin Bacon has a Bacon Number of 1, while someone who has been in a movie with someone else who's been in a movie with Kevin Bacon has a Bacon Number of 2. It's not easy to think of an actor whose Bacon Number is higher than three.
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This hasn't been mentioned yet?
The oracle of Bacon at UVA is what, ten years old? And not a single mention in this discussion?
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Re:An interesting note
Kevin Bacon was in "Frasier" (1993) {Adventures in Paradise: Part 2 (#2.9)} with Kelsey Grammer
Kelsey Grammer was in "Frasier" (1993) {The Two Hundredth (#9.8)} with Bill Gates (I)
Bill Gates (I) was in "Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet" (1998) (mini) with Steve Jobs
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Re:Psychology == Geek?
I always thought it should be the Vogelstein-Steiger number anyway as Bert Vogelstein is the most cited scientist and Rod Steiger is the most highly connected actor in hollywood.
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Re:wow
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Re:wowI'll just cut this off now then. Oh sure, brag, but in Bacon numbers, you're a... oh, wow, 3, not bad!
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Re:This is (now) a famous number-theory integer!
It's not as famous as this number.
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Re:Eww yuck!
Angel Boris actually has a Bacon Number of 2:
1. Angel Boris was in Suicide Blonde (1999) with Robert Deacon
2. Robert Deacon was in Wild Things (1998) with Kevin Bacon
(Source: The Oracle of Bacon at Virginia)
Which makes three steps from you to Kevin Bacon. HTH, HAND!
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Re:The real question is...
>>...how many degrees is he from Kevin Bacon?
Infinity.
I found it really amusing that he was on IMDB to begin with, but apparently he can't be connected to Kevin Bacon. C'est la vie. -
Re:Anniversary of Nazi Party... So what?
You know what else happens on 5 January 2006? This guy turns 75. Maybe the Sober writer also hates The Godfather! Who knows?
And that guy is only 3 steps from Hitler.
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Re:Erdos-Bacon numbers, for example.
The article you link to is dated. Erdos himself now has a Bacon Number of 4 as of 2003 : http://oracleofbacon.org/cgi-bin/oracle/movielink
s ?firstname=Bacon%2C+Kevin&game=1&secondname=Erdos% 2C+Paul&using=1 in summary, The Oracle says: Paul Erdos has a Bacon number of 4. Paul Erdos was in N Is a Number (1993) with Gene Patterson Gene Patterson was in Box of Moon Light (1996) with Annie Corley Annie Corley was in 21 Grams (2003) with Sean Penn Sean Penn was in Mystic River (2003) with Kevin Bacon -
Re:RubbishThey did have significant connections (friends in common). They just weren't working directly together.
If you check out http://oracleofbacon.org/ you'll see that: Kevin Bacon->Eli Wallach->Omar Sharif.
Omar Sharif went to school with the brothers of- get ready for it: Osama bin Laden. Kevin Bacon, if you're out there: the Stealth bombers are on their way. Your days of making mediocre movies are over. Freedom is winning!
-A proud member of the Reality Based Community-
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Kevin Bacon linked to Slashdot
Apparently, there is only one person needed to make the link between Kevin Bacon and Miguel de Icaza. Surely Miguel is linked to a bunch of people here (I know people who know him, as I'm sure others do). Ergo, Kevin Bacon must use Linux.
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Re:Better centerCanonical link: oracleofbacon.org. Just FYI.
--The Oracle
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Re:Terrorist Clause
Also, for some more recent studies
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check out this
And if you'd like to see Six Degress of Kevin Bacon in action ... see the
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Who else will SCO go after?SCO's subpoena process:
Let's see, Linus Torvalds....Linus is the name of a character from a Charles Schultz comic strip. Snoopy was also featured in that strip which is kind of like Snoop Dogg who was in Whiteboys (1999) with Rich Komenich Rich Komenich was in Novocaine (2001) with (say it with me, kids)
Kevin Bacon!
Thanks Oracle of Bacon!
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Re:What better way to.....
On a (semi-)related note, I'm still waiting for the 6-Degrees-Of-Also-Bought. You know, people who bought A also bought B; people who bought B also bought C; people who bought C bought the Soundtrack to Flashdance with Kevin Bacon.
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SixDegrees.com? Kevin Bacon Game?
Anybody else to remember SixDegrees? You stated your links (and they could be specified as "friend," "co-worker," "acquaintance"...) and you were connected with them when they acknowledged you. Extremely interesting sociologically. But it went down for (apparently) economical reasons.
And for those who are genuinely interested in Internet applications of network analysis, you might want to try the Oracle of Bacon. It's an online version of the "Kevin Bacon Game" (who starred with whom) using data from IMDB. -
Re:So, where's Waldo?
Waldo has a Bacon index of 3 But it does depend on which "Waldo" you use. There is another who has an infinite Bacon index. (Hah! He is both at 3 and Infinity. Waldo is clearly some sort of quantum character)
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Re:slashdot degrees-of-separation
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Re:slashdot degrees-of-separation
And Rob Malda has a Natalie Portman number of 3 as well.
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Re:slashdot degrees-of-separation
For that matter, Natalie Portman has a Bacon Number of 2. Hrms.
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Re:slashdot degrees-of-separation
Don't forget, CmdrTaco is only three degrees from Bacon!
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Re:Everything seems to be related...
The Oracle says: osama bin laden has a Bacon number of 3.
Osama bin Laden was in Naqoyqatsi (2002) with Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney was in Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003) with Courtney Love
Courtney Love was in Trapped (2002) with Kevin Bacon -
Re:Good grief!
Matt Cutts is not found by the Oracle of Bacon at Virginia, but it suggests "Dale Cutts" who might be related. And Dale Cutts was in Cyborg Cop II with Ken Gampy, who was in Air Up There with... Kevin Bacon.
That means that the NSA is only 4 degrees away from Kevin Bacon!
Scary...
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Re:interestingly enough...it shows that Osama Bin Laden has a Bacon rating of infinity
However, if you don't just count movies, you can do it. According to the oracle,
The Oracle says: Saddam Hussein has a Bacon number of 3.
Now, according to the Department of Defense, Saddam is linked to Al Quaeda. Let's not get into the question of whether or not we can trust the DoD.
Saddam Hussein was in Saddam Hussein: Defying the World - A Visual Biography (1990) with George Bush
George Bush was in Last Party, The (1993) with Sean Penn
Sean Penn was in Mystic River (2003) with Kevin Bacon
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Re:interestingly enough...
Did you hear that Kevin Bacon has been linked to al Qaeda?
Great sig. Just out of curiosity I consulted The Oracle of Bacon. Unfortunately it shows that Osama Bin Laden has a Bacon rating of infinity. This is actually not very uncommon. About 12 percent of people shown on film cannot be linked to Kevin Bacon through film work (it's actually much harder to find someone with a bacon rating of 4 or more). Osama is one of these. Oddly enough, he has an entry in imdb.com He was in 2 films, "Afganistan: Land in Crisis (2002)" and "Osama Bin Laden: Behind the Madness (2002)" During the filming of one of these he apparently lost some toes.
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Re:Linux torvalds is 3 degrees from Kevin Bacon
And Eric S. Raymond a Traci Lords number of 3! Or is it the other way around?
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Re:CowBoyNeal!
Yes, they do. And so does this "The GNU/Stallmans" character they've got listed in the cast...
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Re:Linux torvalds is 3 degrees from Kevin Bacon
So does Malda. By comparison, Bill Gates has a Bacon number of infinity!
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Linux torvalds is 3 degrees from Kevin Bacon
The Oracle of Bacon says that Linus Torvalds has a bacon number of 3. Not bad.
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CmdrTaco's Bacon Number
Though for whatever reason "Rob Malda" is not listed in the Oracle of Bacon at Virginia's database, other folks who appear in Revolution OS are listed. Since Bruce Perens has a Bacon Number of 3, for his appearance in Revolution OS, CmdrTaco's Bacon Number is also 3.
Now, the question is, does he have an Erdös number?
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Re: Oracle of Bacon (was: hey)Check out the Oracle of Bacon- when a friend of mine was at UVa [he] set up this web interface to it
Building a graph is quite straightforward
If you've taken a algorithms course (and passed) you, too, could probably write an Oracle of Bacon.
I believe that this was done on a single computer. Pretty sure it wasn't a cluster of 4,000
;)The Oracle takes up about 10% of the CPU time on a single Sun Ultra 5/300. (I didn't pick the machine. The Oracle also runs on my Linux 2xP2/350 at home.) It takes around 80 MB of memory -- 25 for the actors and movies and the rest for a cache of recent queries. Each query consumes 0.6 seconds of CPU time, or 0.02 seconds if it comes from the cache. 90-95% of queries get served from the cache, so the Oracle should withstand 10+ queries per second, sustained.
The task is trivially parallelizable across big clusters (UVA has a 256-node cluster that would do the trick), but the need for that has never arisen...
:)--Patrick
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Re: Oracle of Bacon (was: hey)Check out the Oracle of Bacon- when a friend of mine was at UVa [he] set up this web interface to it
Building a graph is quite straightforward
If you've taken a algorithms course (and passed) you, too, could probably write an Oracle of Bacon.
I believe that this was done on a single computer. Pretty sure it wasn't a cluster of 4,000
;)The Oracle takes up about 10% of the CPU time on a single Sun Ultra 5/300. (I didn't pick the machine. The Oracle also runs on my Linux 2xP2/350 at home.) It takes around 80 MB of memory -- 25 for the actors and movies and the rest for a cache of recent queries. Each query consumes 0.6 seconds of CPU time, or 0.02 seconds if it comes from the cache. 90-95% of queries get served from the cache, so the Oracle should withstand 10+ queries per second, sustained.
The task is trivially parallelizable across big clusters (UVA has a 256-node cluster that would do the trick), but the need for that has never arisen...
:)--Patrick
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Re: Oracle of Bacon (was: hey)Check out the Oracle of Bacon- when a friend of mine was at UVa [he] set up this web interface to it
Building a graph is quite straightforward
If you've taken a algorithms course (and passed) you, too, could probably write an Oracle of Bacon.
I believe that this was done on a single computer. Pretty sure it wasn't a cluster of 4,000
;)The Oracle takes up about 10% of the CPU time on a single Sun Ultra 5/300. (I didn't pick the machine. The Oracle also runs on my Linux 2xP2/350 at home.) It takes around 80 MB of memory -- 25 for the actors and movies and the rest for a cache of recent queries. Each query consumes 0.6 seconds of CPU time, or 0.02 seconds if it comes from the cache. 90-95% of queries get served from the cache, so the Oracle should withstand 10+ queries per second, sustained.
The task is trivially parallelizable across big clusters (UVA has a 256-node cluster that would do the trick), but the need for that has never arisen...
:)--Patrick
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Re: Oracle of Bacon (was: hey)Check out the Oracle of Bacon- when a friend of mine was at UVa [he] set up this web interface to it
Building a graph is quite straightforward
If you've taken a algorithms course (and passed) you, too, could probably write an Oracle of Bacon.
I believe that this was done on a single computer. Pretty sure it wasn't a cluster of 4,000
;)The Oracle takes up about 10% of the CPU time on a single Sun Ultra 5/300. (I didn't pick the machine. The Oracle also runs on my Linux 2xP2/350 at home.) It takes around 80 MB of memory -- 25 for the actors and movies and the rest for a cache of recent queries. Each query consumes 0.6 seconds of CPU time, or 0.02 seconds if it comes from the cache. 90-95% of queries get served from the cache, so the Oracle should withstand 10+ queries per second, sustained.
The task is trivially parallelizable across big clusters (UVA has a 256-node cluster that would do the trick), but the need for that has never arisen...
:)--Patrick