Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Apr 6, 2018Is there a descent-of-influence map of European philosophers and scientists starting with say Descartes and Galileo as root nodes? A way to compute a sort of Erdos number of historical idea evolution?47
dorian@doriantaylor·Apr 6, 2018Replying to @vgrdude that is literally what the semantic web was built for http://dbpedia.org/sparql/?default-graph-uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org&query=select+distinct+%3Fs+where+%7B+%3Fs+a+dbo%3APhilosopher+%7D&format=text%2Fhtml&CXML_redir_for_subjs=121&CXML_redir_for_hrefs=&timeout=30000&debug=on&run=Go…34
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @vr00n and @doriantaylorYeah that’s how I do it generally1:15 AM · Apr 6, 2018