Bookmarked for later: > We predict that the pace of social life in the city increases with population size, in quantitative agreement with data, and we discuss how cities are similar to, and differ from, biological organisms, for which β<1.https://www.pnas.org/content/104/17/7301.short …
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Replying to @ScienceDiogenes
Scaling exponents. Complexity folks love their powerlaws.
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Replying to @generativist
i really need to learn more ^_^ i mean i think i understand them words what u done said there =] just wanted to make sure i didnt confuse it for like thermodynamic beta lol
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Power-law distributions in empirical data is cannon for me, http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~aaronc/powerlaws/ …
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Replying to @generativist @ScienceDiogenes
The settlement scaling theory stuff is *incredible*. See e.g., https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0042098019873796?journalCode=usja … https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440316300991 …https://science.sciencemag.org/content/340/6139/1438 …
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Replying to @jesseXjesse @ScienceDiogenes
Yes! My committee chair (Claudio Cioffi-Revilla) taught a class on the origins of sociocomplexity. First one I took in grad school. I was hooked by minute 10!
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(I also picked of Geoffrey West's book Scale a month ago. Now may be a good time for a read.)
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Replying to @generativist @ScienceDiogenes
Gabaix's overview from the econ side is also great: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257%2Fjep.30.1.185 …
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