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After they snared about 15 million of those titles, they tested the program to see which websites it deemed more authoritative.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
These are the scales of modern human networks, and it’s Dunbar’s number multiplied by millions. In these large-scale communities, standards and self-governance can’t be maintained by people simply running around and talking to each other. Instead, the builders of these networked products must create features that nudge the interactions in the right
... See moreAndrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Nanosearch is an in-memory search engine designed for small (< 10,000 URL) websites.
With Nanosearch, you can build a search engine in a few lines of code.
Nanosearch supports the BM25 and TF/IDF algorithms.
Nanosearch also computes a link graph and uses the number of inlinks to a page as a ranking factor. This is useful for ranking ... See more
GitHub - capjamesg/nanosearch: Build a search engine from a website sitemap.
for increases in productivity.
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
through the social network. When we again aggregated information across the group, but now using the private, subjective estimates of information flow, we got essentially the same estimates as when using objective social information.
Alex Pentland • Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World (Bradford Books)
scale invariant, meaning that, on average,
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
But the Network of the global Indian diaspora is just on an exponential rise.
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
I think I know the explanation, and it also explains why 80/20 is becoming even more prevalent, affecting our lives in mysterious and perplexing ways. The answer is in the burgeoning power of networks. The number and influence of networks has been growing for a long time, at first a slow increase over the past few centuries, but since about 1970 th
... See moreRichard Koch • The 80/20 Principle
Traditionally, when academics or businesspeople wanted data, they conducted surveys.