Kevin Bacon, Armour, swords, and dream jobs.
After a conversation about a topic coming up in multiple locations I started thinking about the possibility of writing some code to try and find patterns in data.
Essentially you could pull a bunch of users from twitter, sort them so you have a bunch of atomic units, by that I mean people that aren’t following, or being followed by any of the others, and then analyze their tweets for a pattern. I am sure something would arise. Essentially it would be like the Kevin Bacon game only for an infinite amount of terms.
So if 12 users all ended up talking about apples and coke zero on the same day, you’d run analytics to see what could have lead them there. With time i’d imagine patterns would emerge and predictions could be made… just a thought.
I also though about boiled leather armour and dual wielding swords
I also thought a lot about logarithms.
Finally I also thought about dream jobs and the people who have them. I was thinking about some folks I know who seem to have gotten everything they ever wanted. I’d be lying if I said there wasn’t a twinge of envy to accompany it. However I also thought about what I remember them doing, I remember sacrificing everything except the pursuit of that thing. These folks were unremarkable in their jobs, and didn’t excel particularly at their education. What they did do was focus on what they loved. In the end they became very good at what they loved. It turns out if you are good at something people will pay you to do it.
This will require further thought.
