Essays
The Big Sort
The previous essay found Hollywood's center. This one maps everything around it: A tiny elite core, a working middle, and a periphery of nearly 179,000 actors who each made exactly one film.
The model was all they shared. The patients leaked anyway.
A hospital releases an image generator and none of its patient photos. Working out whose eyes it studied anyway, and why the obvious fix costs the thing you trained for.
Good Node Hunting
You can link almost any actor to Kevin Bacon in a few hops. But steps hide something: Not every co-star counts the same. Put the weight back in, and the center of Hollywood moves.