6 ms·
Both Steven Johnson's "Where Good Ideas Come From" and Steven Pinker's "Better Angels of our Nature" have fantastic discussions on many other occurrences of pow
by mfrisbie 14y ago
Both Steven Johnson's "Where Good Ideas Come From" and Steven Pinker's "Better Angels of our Nature" have fantastic discussions on many other occurrences of power law distributions.
- IgniteTheSun 14y agoThis book [1] also goes through a quite a few examples of power law distributions. It also goes through a large number of examples of random walks and the associated concept of Lévy flights [2]. [1] Barabási, Albert-László (2010). Bursts : the hidden pattern behind everything we do. New York N.Y.: Dutton. [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy_flight http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy_flight