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>the question of how popularity is distributed over the set of Web pages ... A natural guess is the normal, or Gaussian, distribution — the so-called “bell curv
by ouid 8y ago
>the question of how popularity is distributed over the set of Web pages ... A natural guess is the normal, or Gaussian, distribution — the so-called “bell curve”
If this is your guess, then you have absolutely no idea what you are doing.
- twtw 8y ago> absolutely no idea what you are doing. Isn't that sort of the idea of a textbook? The authors emphasize how poor of a model the normal distribution is in that case less than a full page after introducing it as a "simple hypothesis."
- ouid 8y agoIt's not a simple hypothesis, and it's extremely lazy pedagogy. It's not a reasonable guess if you can't establish any reasoning that would lead you to it, and even if you could, in a textbook, I expect your guesses to be more than reasonable, I expect them to be actually reasoned.
- Hydraulix989 8y agoThe author Jon Kleinberg literally invented the HITS algorithm -- the precursor to Google PageRank.
- justherefortart 8y agoArgument from authority isn't a valid response.