Coda has an excellent post on the Fan-In Problem: https://codahale.com/fan-in/ pic.twitter.com/tr1F8dfwEN
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@patrickc agreed — general mob mentality and pile-on-outrage is what defines twitter today, and it literally ruins lives.
@patrickc people at Twitter (etc) should be thinking seriously about. See the equation for \gamma here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_attachment …
@patrickc (Empirically, the exponent HAS moved in other sectors, e.g. books: http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/when-can-the-long-tail-be-leveraged/ … )
@patrickc </theoreticalPhysicist>
@patrickc The Haitian Revolution, the first "Black Republic".....
@patrickc I've sometimes wondered if understanding how to shift the power law exponent in preferential attachment models is s'thing
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