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Be careful about Barabasi: https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/the-network-nonsense-of-albert-laszlo-barabasi/ https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/0
by GFK_of_xmaspast 11y ago
Be careful about Barabasi: https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/the-network-nonsense-of-albert-laszlo-barabasi/ https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/the-network-non...
(FWIW, I had previously read some Barabasi papers and had come away seriously unimpressed, see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9555547 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9555547)
- gilleain 11y agoI misremembered Albert-László Barabási for Laszlo Babai - I was wondering why you were unimpressed! Yes, scale-free networks (and so on, and so on), are oversold. Is his work really that bad though?