Re: [silk] On the Road

On 13 September 2015 at 23:51, Bruce A. Metcalf wrote: > > And the attitude I mentioned? The week before we arrived, some moron put > her cell phone on a selfie stick and leaned up against a bison for a photo. > She does not have a photo. She does not have an unbroken cell phone. She > does not h

Re: [silk] On the Road

On 16 September 2015 at 02:27, harry wrote: > On 13 September 2015 at 23:51, Bruce A. Metcalf > wrote: > > > > > And the attitude I mentioned? The week before we arrived, some moron put > > her cell phone on a selfie stick and leaned up against a bison for a > photo. > > She does not have a phot

[silk] Peter G Neumman explains "the Zipf mystery"

Statistical Metalinguistics and Zipf/Pareto/Mandelbrot I frequently see cryptic references to the magic of Zipf or Pareto or Mandelbrot, with reference to linguistic and other structures, and sometimes in the context of 80-20 rules relating to almost anyth