How it is all connected weirdly

Paul Graham to Kobe Bryant to David Foster Wallace to Karen’s blog.

Yes, reading a retweet from Paul on Kobe Bryant led me to one of the comments which had David Foster Wallace’s This is water Youtube video which I had seen before. Then while trying to remember him and DDGing for him, I found his best work Infinite Jest and subsequently a very interesting comment by Karen on goodreads that led me to her blog page.

The beauty is the ‘Web’ which makes weird connections happen. You can begin anywhere and end up anywhere. And you may find yourself quite lonely on the trail you trek because there are infinite of them. And often you may not be able to find that trail the next time you browse. The Web represents a landscape similar to the ground we stand on. People of all beliefs are admitted here. What you seek is what you see out there. If you are not seeking anything in particular, you may end up discovering new possibilities.

Why do I think discovering connections are important ? Because as the knowledge grows like grains of sand or stars that fill the universe, the connections grow even more. If pieces of knowledge are like vertices of a graph, then the edges in a fully connected graph is O(V²). And the paths you can take can be way higher. This is how our brain is structured. What we represent in Deep learning is not a fully connected graph, it is hierarchical, which is a tiny subset of knowledge. The Web can be the Super Deep Learning network that already exists but waiting to get a life of its own. Today all of us are breathing life into it by connecting and discovering things. It is a sleeping giant, until a point in time when it is going to govern us it seems and we will be the feeders. Wow. This all sounds dystopian. But if that is what humanity is moving towards, who can help it?. This reminds me of the movie Matrix.