Preferential attachment and observed power laws may very well be a signature of complexity but that doesn’t mean it’s also not a symptom of pathology. There are way too many “fact of nature” takes.
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Replying to @generativist
The 'hey, I saw a power law!' literature has some of the worst & least rigorous math out there. But it does buzz well. ... And I say that as someone who recently wrote a paper that said 'hey, I saw a power law!' (but hopefully not just that).
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Replying to @kaznatcheev @generativist
we’re now 10 years after “Power-law distributions in empirical data” from Clauset, et al no doubt an interesting story about the dissemination of information on networks!
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Replying to @svateboje @kaznatcheev
Oh wow. My cohort spent sooo much time on that paper!
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