hour outside the capital anulan Bara you see this monstrosity not perhaps in the best of tastes private Enterprise run wild it'sactually going to be in the center of a golf course but it captures something of the scale of Jenis in the mind of
- We ended up mapping out a region of World Wide Web, and we had a very clear expectation of how that network should look like. - Barabasi thought the distribution of pages and links would resemble a bell curve, similar to what you'd get for people's height across a population. Most sites would have some average number of links and there would be very few outliers either side.
- These were websites like Yahoo, super-connectors that linked to thousands of other sites. Barabasi called them hubs, because when he mapped out the network, they resembled the hub of a wheel, with spokes going out to hundreds of other pages. And it was these hubs that made the web a small world, not shortcuts.
We named this process preferential attachment. - Barabasi reasoned that these two principles could explain how hubs naturally emerge when a network grows. So together with his colleague, Reka Albert, he ran a simulation.
which say Barack Obama and Donald Trump are very different from one another. But when you look at how similar they are to one another in terms of their kind of ascendancies into politics, Barack Obama was a political outsider who really wasn't his turn at the time that he found himself with a democratic nomination and then ultimately winning the presidency. And Donald Trump, similarly, a political outsider, essentially not so much a grassroots guy because he's very much a celebrity, even before he made his ascent in politics. But it was certainly not his time.
So yeah, I think the evolution from treating Toys R Us as the widget, and maybe we bankrupt Toys R Us and that's fine, Barack Obama wanted to do that.
No, absolutely. I think that Obama had the popular mandate. The last time any president has had a popular mandate was Barack Obama and and I think there is a there there are a good deal of people who feel like that was squandered to a certain degree and I think it was a uphill battle with a lot of internal division and a lot of corporate influence as well.
That's your sphere. Like, I see you over there, but I'm doing my thing, and you're doing your thing. Barack and Michelle Obama are us people. They believe in collective action.
And Michelle Obama could do that. Barack Obama could do that. They're not going to turn around and say, excuse me, I'm not a cocktail waiter.
The earth is not flat. Barack Obama was born in the United States. Global warming is real.
But almost everybody knew who Michael Jordan was. Barack Obama-- again, somebody who transcended politics talking about hope and change. But nobody transcends humor.
That's true. Early into this century, just barely. 'Barack Obama is the father of Miley Cyrus' baby,' announced Wikipedia Brown.
Our last three presidents-- the current president, Barack Obama, George Bush, and Bill Clinton. Barack Obama used cocaine and marijuana. George Bush used marijuana, widely suspected of having used cocaine.
They're working with a drug company to bring that to the human market. Barack Obama's president, having read that one page.
I would say, "Wow the economy is very complicated and very impressive." And it's decentralized. Barack Obama doesn't run it. Bill Gates doesn't run it.
Without further ado, I’d like to welcome Mr. Baratunde Thurston. Baratunde Thurston: What’s up everybody? Baratunde Thurston: Happy black history month.
Baratunde Thurston: What’s up everybody? Baratunde Thurston: Happy black history month. Give yourselves a round of applause for black people.
Give yourselves a round of applause for black people. Baratunde Thurston: All people, but especially, especially us. Baratunde Thurston: It’s, uh, it’s good to be here at the Googleplex.
Baratunde Thurston: All people, but especially, especially us. Baratunde Thurston: It’s, uh, it’s good to be here at the Googleplex. I saw some strange, you have like a, sort of E.T.
And then I met someone, she said she worked in People Operations. Baratunde Thurston: And I was, are you experimenting on the human genome? Like, it’s just a little disconcerting.
Basically, for those of you watching on video, this may be my last appearance in public. Baratunde Thurston: Tell my family I love them, very much. Uh, I wanna talk about, uh, “blackness”, the book, my life, a little bit of tech stuff and wrap it all into one.
Most smart people love watermelon and that’s really all that there is to it. Baratunde Thurston: If you see something else you should get yourself checked out cause you have issues. You know, watermelon is just wonderful.
And, the chief thing that I do is I live hate tweet the Twilight movies. Baratunde Thurston: And so what that means is, first of all Twilight is a terrible, terrible thing. It’s basically like a stalker positioned as an object of desire to convince young girls that they want to live this sort of life that’s very, very destructive to their egos and their
It’s been worth that investment of my time. Baratunde Thurston: I kinda feel like that teacher that wants to reach one student, you know if you could just change one life. Uh, so if I could just convince one person not to spend fifteen dollars on garbage, then I’ve done my job as a citizen.
I have a very simple marketing message, if you don’t buy the book, you’re a racist. Baratunde Thurston: And that’s just true, it’s not like a thing, it’s not a hook, it’s not a scam. And it works, it works.
So guilt works ladies and gentlemen. Baratunde Thurston: I highly recommend it. You guys should try it in your, in your Google products.
You can see where my cuteness comes from. Baratunde Thurston: So she sent, our grandmother sent our mother off to Boarding School at age 8. In a little town called Cornwells Heights, Pennsylvania.
I’m not sure they would have admitted him, uh, if he had been. Baratunde Thurston: But my mother had some tough times at this school. So tough that she wrote letters back to her mother and I want to share just one of them that my sister and I found.
This is letter, in the 8-year-old handwriting, sent from a daughter to her mother, “Dear Mother, I am having fun but I do not like it here.” Baratunde Thurston: “I am mad at you. Please send me some cookies.” Baratunde Thurston: Very important.
dissatisfied, we’d be glad to have her bed for children who are anxious to come.” Signed, “Sister” Which is sort of like the NSA wiretapping of, I guess, 1948. Baratunde Thurston: You gotta protect the nation from little black girls that want dolls and cookies. It’s very much a threat to the nation.
She worked at her high school newspaper, but before long her social network changed and she started hanging out with people that looked like this. Baratunde Thurston: This is a dude name El Dorado. Baratunde Thurston: Like the car.
Baratunde Thurston: This is a dude name El Dorado. Baratunde Thurston: Like the car. Baratunde Thurston: And there are many people in this world who, uh, who think they’re cool.
Baratunde Thurston: Like the car. Baratunde Thurston: And there are many people in this world who, uh, who think they’re cool. Some people watching this right now think you’re cool and know people who are cool.
This dude, El Dorado, is the last cool person to ever have existed. Baratunde Thurston: Look at the shoes, look at the phone; look at the typewriter, the pants, the hair, everything about this picture is cool. Cool is now a historic relic thanks to the high bar El Dorado set.
And right in the thick of it is my mom. Baratunde Thurston: Cause the revolution may not be televised but it could be photographed. You want your hair done up right.
You want the eyes focused on the camera. Baratunde Thurston: Now, when I was born, my mother did not leave these politics behind, she very much infused them with me. A lot of kids had little books when they were, you know, you had cartoons.
This was my first book, pretty much. Baratunde Thurston: Called This is Apartheid. Baratunde Thurston: I had another book called Africa is Not a Country, it’s a Continent.
Baratunde Thurston: Called This is Apartheid. Baratunde Thurston: I had another book called Africa is Not a Country, it’s a Continent. And when you are raised with this, like stark black and white photos of Apartheid.
And when you are raised with this, like stark black and white photos of Apartheid. Baratunde Thurston: It maybe has a little effect on you as a young person whose mind is being molded. Now, outside of our house is a very different picture.
Our neighborhood did not have that. Baratunde Thurston: But otherwise it was very similar to the Wire. So my mom help navigate me and my sister through this environment and we had this very proud moment at my college graduation from Harvard.
N-E-G-R, we’re gonna have to riot now aren’t we? Baratunde Thurston: We’re just, this is the black history month. A black man can’t speak at Google without some white guy talking loudly over top of him.
A black man can’t speak at Google without some white guy talking loudly over top of him. Baratunde Thurston: This is ridiculous. I got 29 days man, c’mon.
I got 29 days man, c’mon. Baratunde Thurston: Interrupt me in March and I will not complain. Baratunde Thurston: Anyway, I was talking about my ignorant wine purchasing decisions.
Baratunde Thurston: Interrupt me in March and I will not complain. Baratunde Thurston: Anyway, I was talking about my ignorant wine purchasing decisions. Baratunde Thurston: So I saw this brand of wine called Negroamaro, I was like, that spoke to me, “Negro wine!
Baratunde Thurston: Anyway, I was talking about my ignorant wine purchasing decisions. Baratunde Thurston: So I saw this brand of wine called Negroamaro, I was like, that spoke to me, “Negro wine! This is perfect. That’s why I’m gonna buy it.” So I posted to Twitter, and I was trying to antagonize my friend, Elon James White who’s
I just had visions of watermelons dancing in my head. Baratunde Thurston: People are like, “How black are you? I drink grape soda all the time!” And I’m like, ‘No, no, no.’ America’s not ready for how black are you at the Wal Mart bookshelf, like we can’t
Which, clearly you guys might have an interest in. Baratunde Thurston: “Tell us how to do it! Tell us how to do it!” Its coming, its coming.
on me? I’m a baby. Baratunde Thurston: Pick a fight with someone your own ignorance. Baratunde Thurston: So the book has stories like that.
Baratunde Thurston: Pick a fight with someone your own ignorance. Baratunde Thurston: So the book has stories like that. It also has a lot of the “How to’s” There’s how to, how to be the next black president, one of my favorite chapters.
We tried it once; it lasted for like a day. Baratunde Thurston: And so there’s, you know, some, some guidelines for the next black president. And also the theory being that the second black president really is the first black president, cause the next time around America’s doing it super intentional, like we know what