Comments on: Science counts: The Infonaut Takes on Quantum Influence http://theinfonaut.com/2006/10/12/science-counts-the-infonaut-takes-on-quantum-influence/ Digital sensory perception with an elegant variation. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:46:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Jake http://theinfonaut.com/2006/10/12/science-counts-the-infonaut-takes-on-quantum-influence/#comment-57 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:10:21 +0000 http://theinfonaut.com/2006/10/12/science-counts-the-infonaut-takes-on-quantum-influence/#comment-57 Once upon a time, a Stanford student was trying to build an algorithm to track and value academic influence... and then Backrub became Google, which may or may not be THE most important influence on the web today, but it's definitely a participant. The whole rigamarole around google's protection of its algorithm weights seems to be proof positive that people can't make observations about influence on the internet without becoming influences. Did you know that there are laws (or so I've heard) against doing surveys on popularity with children, because those surveys tend to make life worse for the unpopular kids? Once upon a time, a Stanford student was trying to build an algorithm to track and value academic influence… and then Backrub became Google, which may or may not be THE most important influence on the web today, but it’s definitely a participant. The whole rigamarole around google’s protection of its algorithm weights seems to be proof positive that people can’t make observations about influence on the internet without becoming influences.

Did you know that there are laws (or so I’ve heard) against doing surveys on popularity with children, because those surveys tend to make life worse for the unpopular kids?

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