Comments on: Six Degrees, again http://blog.bbbeard.com/2008/08/07/six-degrees-again/ A Peculiar, Yet Refreshing, Blog Sun, 20 May 2012 11:14:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: lukemeister http://blog.bbbeard.com/2008/08/07/six-degrees-again/#comment-18 lukemeister Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:32:23 +0000 http://blog.bbbeard.com/2008/08/07/six-degrees-again/#comment-18 I've played with R a bit, and keep meaning to really learn it. I just read a rave review of <a href="http://www.scilab.org/" rel="nofollow">Scilab</a>, free software funded by the French government, in Linux Journal (it's available for Windows too). Hopefully version 5 will have screenshots of Mme Sarkozy. I’ve played with R a bit, and keep meaning to really learn it. I just read a rave review of Scilab, free software funded by the French government, in Linux Journal (it’s available for Windows too). Hopefully version 5 will have screenshots of Mme Sarkozy.

]]> By: bbbeard http://blog.bbbeard.com/2008/08/07/six-degrees-again/#comment-17 bbbeard Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:54:18 +0000 http://blog.bbbeard.com/2008/08/07/six-degrees-again/#comment-17 Interesting. Reading the paper, I did find it peculiar that there existed a path of length 29(!). I wonder if that is an artifact of the short length of time (1 month) covered by the study, or whether it means there are in fact multiple moieties to which people belong, and which are only tenuously, albeit multiply, connected. Super-cool graphics, too.... I wonder what tool they used? I have been using R, which is an open-source stats package, for my more sophisticated graphics needs. I posted a plot of Bessel eigenfunctions for some slosh modes on <a href=http://bbbeard.org rel="nofollow">http://bbbeard.org</a>. Interesting. Reading the paper, I did find it peculiar that there existed a path of length 29(!). I wonder if that is an artifact of the short length of time (1 month) covered by the study, or whether it means there are in fact multiple moieties to which people belong, and which are only tenuously, albeit multiply, connected.

Super-cool graphics, too…. I wonder what tool they used? I have been using R, which is an open-source stats package, for my more sophisticated graphics needs. I posted a plot of Bessel eigenfunctions for some slosh modes on http://bbbeard.org.

]]> By: lukemeister http://blog.bbbeard.com/2008/08/07/six-degrees-again/#comment-16 lukemeister Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:17:12 +0000 http://blog.bbbeard.com/2008/08/07/six-degrees-again/#comment-16 The <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~horvitz/leskovec_horvitz_www2008.pdf" rel="nofollow">paper by Leskovec and Horvitz</a> says the median is 6. I'd have preferred the number to be 6.66, in line with Milgram's other shocking experiment. I don't get what's shocking about this one, though. The paper by Leskovec and Horvitz says the median is 6. I’d have preferred the number to be 6.66, in line with Milgram’s other shocking experiment. I don’t get what’s shocking about this one, though.

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