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It’s funny that you mention pseudoscientific garbage here. Apparently, Cesar Hildalgo’s phd advisor was Barabasi, the ardent promoter of the “scale-free networ
by balsam 5y ago
It’s funny that you mention pseudoscientific garbage here.
Apparently, Cesar Hildalgo’s phd advisor was Barabasi, the ardent promoter of the “scale-free network” concept. Which, while hot last decade, has (to put it charitably) gone out of fashion:
https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2018/02/scant-evidence-of-power-laws-found-in-real-world-networks-20180215.pdf https://d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net/uploads/2018/02/scant-...
I wonder if his advisor’s “bad luck” had rubbed off on him.
- native_samples 5y agoHuh, how interesting. My reaction to reading the definition of network science was that this didn't sound like a genuine thing you could study at all. No surprise that it turned out you couldn't. It's also quite intriguing that the originators of this claim came from physics. It seems like quite a few bad ideas in recent years trace back to people who left physics. Neil Ferguson studied physics before switching to epidemiology. Perhaps the general level of rigor required in modern physics pushes out the wooly thinkers and they end up undermining other fields instead.