The article is talking about power law probability distributions [0]. What you seem to be doing is fitting a curve with a term that has an exponent, which is a

The article is talking about power law probability distributions [0]. What you seem to be doing is fitting a curve with a term that has an exponent, which is a power-law relationship. That is not what the article is talking about, unless you're claiming the residuals of your fit follow a power law distribution. I'm not blaming you for latching on the the term "power-law" -- it's a simple enough mistake -- but HN upvoters should recognize that this is not what the article is talking about at all. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law#Power-law_probability_distributions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law#Power-law_probabilit...