Today's bit of Natalie Portman trivia

[fleaplus]

Natalie Portman (birth name Natalie Hershlag) in 2002 was apparently co-author on a paper in the journal NeuroImage, titled Frontal Lobe Activation during Object Permanence: Data from Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Here's the abstract:

The ability to create and hold a mental schema of an

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[daviticus]

I remember Tope showed me an article that mentioned this a while back... I believe it was saying she had the distinction of having both finite Erdos and Bacon numbers...

[fleaplus]

By the way, what's your Erdos number? It turns out I have a number of 5, if you count my conference poster:

Erdos -> McEliece -> Jon Harel -> Christof Koch -> Shinsuke Shimojo -> Neil

My Bacon number is unfortunately non-finite to my knowledge.

[daviticus]

Probably finite, in the sense that I have technically been published (for work I did as a lab tech in high school doing protein crystallography), so some path or other probably leads to Erdos... but as I have yet to be published in any math/CS area, no non-trivial upper bound is known...

My Bacon number, however, is provably infinite ;)