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I have no idea what the logic of this post is supposed to be. Message sharing follows a power law and so therefore... something about quality going down when me
by civilized 5y ago
I have no idea what the logic of this post is supposed to be. Message sharing follows a power law and so therefore... something about quality going down when messages go up? And something about filtering? What on earth is he talking about?
...Well, it turns out he's sharing the conclusions of the linked SciAm article, but the SciAm article just says "the super smart researchers plugged numbers into their simulation and this result magically came out". There's no insight or explanation.
Are we expected to just believe that computer simulations built by credentialed scientists prove things about the real world?
- 6510 5y ago> Are we expected to just believe that computer simulations built by credentialed scientists prove things about the real world? We could model it... 1) each node is an imaginary scientist with a random set of in and outgoing citations, they can only read and cite a finite number of randomized publications, the publications are assumed to vary randomly in quality... 2) ????? 3) Conclusion: As the number of publications in the network rises, the quality of those which propagate falls.