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This a fascinating article that provides lots of worthwhile information for anyone planning in fitting a power law to their data. I will probably never read an
by larkeith 9y ago
This a fascinating article that provides lots of worthwhile information for anyone planning in fitting a power law to their data.
I will probably never read another of the author's writings due to the pervasive negativity.
- teraflop 9y agoI don't see any negativity in this article, outside of maybe the headline and the first paragraph. It consists almost entirely of constructive suggestions for how to do data analysis.
- username223 9y agoWhy is "pervasive negativity" a reason to ignore someone insightful? Do what you will, but you should at least check out the author's meticulous beat-down of Stephen Wolfram for peddling nonsense: http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/ http://bactra.org/reviews/wolfram/
- madhadron 9y agoHaving dealt with the scale free network nonsense for a couple of years, I think he's being remarkably positive about a completely dysfunctional area of research.