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   by open_nsfw 10y ago

   It's a real metric in so far as people are actually using your product. Otherwise it's just some email addresses.
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   by open_nsfw 10y ago

   Glad vanity metrics is being given a name. I've worked for one which obsessed about user signups long before we even had a product ready. It was ridiculous
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   by open_nsfw 10y ago

   I'm pretty sure each point was rendered independently - i.e. the nodes have no interactions. So unlike flocking, they are are entirely coincidental.
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   by open_nsfw 10y ago

   I'm not a big fan of this brand of dogmatic skepticism. I've skimmed through the paper, and from my limited college level physics, it seems like a plausible theory. Plausible enough to be worthy of publication and a modest amount