power laws: understand them
not all roughly-bell-shaped curves are normal
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hm those slides might be a bit too terse here's a paper
(anyway this is a nitpick mostly when people say "power law" they could say "heavy-tailed distribution" instead)
arxiv.org/abs/0706.1062
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