Thursday, January 7, 2010

Of eigenvectors and modified adjacency matrixes...es?...and of course BBQ Sauce!

Ahhhhhhhhhh....eigenvectors.

Or should I say OOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH....eigenvectors!

Never in my wildest dreams should I have EVER had to have that word in my head, nor may I say, any shred of desire to actually learn what one of those eigenvector-ee things is.

Not a topic at the School of Building Construction at the University of Florida...not a topic at Umatilla High School...not even a topic in ALL the training and books and websites I've ever crossed paths with.

Until THIS day.

Yah...this is the day I learned about page ranking for my website for Sweet Life Sauce Company...holding tank of all things small batch, handcrafted BBQ Sauces, Hot Sauces, and Grilling Rubs...quite gratuitously too I might add at www.sweetlifesaucecompany.com.

There's this web page ranking tool thing you can get from Google...just up there on that toolbar that allows you to see the "weight" of your website pages in the eyes of the algorithms. Ranks from 0-10...takes a while to climb the ladder on this ranking thing.

I shouldn't be where I am yet...at a 2...a 2 out of 10 on my way to being a 3 out of 10. I have chills MAN! Yarbrough...let's talk!

Here's the math...come on, follow it with me.

Where R is the solution of the equation

Where the adjacency functionis 0 if page pi does not link to pj, and normalised such that, for each i

i.e. the elements of each column sum up to 1.

Yeah...I said the same thing...THE FREAKIN ANSWER IS 1??!!!!!

For those of you that do better with pictures, this will help to clarify this incredible beauty of nature...let's call it an ornament of nature for its beauty...

























chirp.chirp...chirp.chirp...

light wind blowing through the wispy branches of the night forest, you hear the soft chirpings of a night cricket in its love song


lighting softens as the full moon passes behind a wispy alto-cumulus cloud



And as Bill Cosby prattled(forever immortalized in my head from endless re-tellings on the ole' record player) of Noah and the Ark when the Good Lord said "NOAH...I want you to build an Ark!"

And Noah responds...."RRRRIIIIIIGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTT"

Yeah right...all I know is that this algorithm thing helps me get traffic to my website. "Random Surfers" as they are called get directed to websites in all these links and backlinks and pointings and keywords and tags and metatags and blogs and social networking and forums and it looks like this...























So I'm doing it.

Not you though...you can enjoy sauces from Sweet Life Sauce Company any time you want. It's the sauce that's making us modify our adjacency matrixes so they are at a right angle yet intersecting with your eigenvectors AND your taste buds.

Get your SAUCE! From www.sweetlifesaucecompany.com.

All will be well in the land...a little chilly for the moment but well.