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    1. dorian taylor‏ @doriantaylor Jan 20
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      à propos of nothing, earlier conversation with @berglar recalled my experience writing what i would characterize as "dense hypermedia", where all digressions/parentheticals were given their own page. the number of drafts increased ~quadratically to the actual intended product.

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    2. dorian taylor‏ @doriantaylor Jan 20
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      this made me think of how random walks are √n steps from the origin on average, and kinda had a miniature holy-shit moment

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    3. dorian taylor‏ @doriantaylor Jan 20
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      a complete graph has (n²-n)/2 edges for n nodes, so it's not quite the square, but it's proportional (take away the /2 for directed graphs)

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    4. dorian taylor‏ @doriantaylor Jan 20
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      dorian taylor Retweeted Anuraj R.

      anyway thinking about this from hamming's book, and…https://twitter.com/anurajenp/status/1350459769904099330 …

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      Anuraj R. @anurajenp
      Replying to @doriantaylor @vgr
      Hamming’s drunken sailor example pic.twitter.com/XKAIfQK5bE
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    5. dorian taylor‏ @doriantaylor Jan 20
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      …if concepts are nodes and analogical relations between concepts are edges, then you'd have a complete graph if all concepts related to all other concepts in a meaningful way…

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    6. dorian taylor‏ @doriantaylor Jan 20
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      …the complete scenario may not happen but consider a digression or parenthetical is a set of remarks on a concept in the context of all the other concepts you're writing about

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    7. dorian taylor‏ @doriantaylor Jan 20
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      anyway tl;dr the task in front of you could very well be proportional to x² of what you think it is instead of a·x

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    8. dorian taylor‏ @doriantaylor Jan 20
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      dorian taylor Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

      also @vgr has coincidentally been thinking about this too:https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1350259689599107072 …

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      Venkatesh Rao @vgr
      Had a thought that sqrt(n) to n^2 via n is a vastly more important phenomenon than 0 to 1. sqrt(n) = random walk n = muddling through (filtered random walk) n^2 = network effect This is what things like product-market fit really are. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1350190715867865088 …
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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

      😎https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1352076360752066560 …

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      Venkatesh Rao @vgr
      Ideal subjective life distance equation dₛ(n) = α √n+ 𝛿 < βn Ideal objective life distance equation dₒ(n) = 𝛾 n ² near-random walk from the inside, network effect from the outside
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        1. dorian taylor‏ @doriantaylor Jan 20
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          lol

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        1. dorian taylor‏ @doriantaylor Jan 20
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          i feel like there is some graph theory/combinatorics that explains this that i am ignorant about

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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          Possibly this. It’s how I’ve always connected graph growth to compound interest. Network effects are the compound interest effects of preferential attachment dynamics. For an individual, just building on your own past work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_attachment …

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