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98 points colinprince | 4 comments | 02 Sep 25 20:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.427s | source
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kylecazar ◴[05 Sep 25 20:51 UTC] No.45143445[source]▶
I chose "Johnny Carson" and "Anderson Cooper", and it picked a pretty circuitous route involving Letterman and Obama.

Surely they could just be connected through Leno, for example.

Either it's a path problem or just a collection size problem I suppose. Cool nonetheless!

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1. jonathanfranzen ◴[05 Sep 25 21:49 UTC] No.45144056[source]▶
Creator here — the site runs a shortest-path search over the set of photos I’ve manually verified. Thanks for pointing this out, I just added Carson-Leno and Leno-Cooper, so now their interview guests are all down to a couple hops. Talk show hosts are major connectors! Letterman is a real skeleton key to the 20th century, he interviewed Edward Bernays who has a pic with Eleanor Roosevelt, and it all pops off from there.
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2. kylecazar ◴[05 Sep 25 23:25 UTC] No.45144911[source]▶
I see! I can imagine them as serious connective tissue, who else interviews royalty/presidents one day and young pop idols the next. Again, really cool project, thanks for sharing!
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3. kevin_thibedeau ◴[06 Sep 25 00:24 UTC] No.45145309[source]▶
That would be an interesting topic to analyze. Generate random parings of people and compute the paths between them, then tally the people who show up most frequently in the connections.
4. ics ◴[06 Sep 25 03:06 UTC] No.45146280[source]▶
Is there an easy way to report inaccuracies?

I tried a connection with John Frusciante (guitarist in Red Hot Chili Peppers) and while he was in the photo, his face was tagged as Chad Smith who was not in the photo and a woman with a mask covering her face was tagged as John. I didn't see an obvious way to identify a unique image except for an attribute in the HTML which was "15552" if that helps.