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Rabin Poudyal
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6-5 Connections graph

6.5.1Six degrees of mental models

Pick any two models and get the shortest chain of links between them. Each step is a link the library already makes, so a long chain is a short course in why distant ideas turn out to be related.

100 models · 315 links · the address keeps the pair, so a path can be shared

  1. 1Pick

     

     

  2. 2Follow

    Pick two models, or let the site pick two that sit far apart. Every step on the way is a link the library already makes.

Note

The idea comes from Six Degrees of Wikipedia, a Show HN (Hacker News) project that finds the shortest chain of links between any two Wikipedia articles. Here the links are the ones written into each model’s related list, and the search is a plain breadth-first search run in your browser.