The power law thing is indeed quite interesting stuff. I'm happy to
see it's getting more mainstream attention. It takes a long time to
become comfortable with the ideas around it. gs. For example why is
the ranking of people's last or first names distributed this way, the
size of hearts in mammals, the sizes of cities, it goes on and on. To
understand what systems give rise to it. I've been thinking about it
for 3 years now and I'm still noticing thin They are straight lines on
log-log paper - I wish he had mentioned that some are worse than
others. Nordic countries may have power-law distributions of wealth,
but the slope is nothing compared to that seen in South America and the
US.
I assume, but haven't checked that the rank order of HTTP servers
follows a power-law.
- ben
ps. http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/cat_powerlaws_networks.html
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