tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post815539696412242723..comments2023-11-05T03:45:25.001-08:00Comments on God Plays Dice: links for 2007-10-07Michael Lugohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15671307315028242949noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-80048737659390309462007-10-08T04:19:00.000-07:002007-10-08T04:19:00.000-07:00One of the best papers I read last year was Michae...One of the best papers I read last year was <BR/><A HREF="http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~michaelm/postscripts/tempim1.ps" REL="nofollow">Michael Mitzenmacher's survey</A> of the generative processes that lead to power-law distributions as opposed to log-normal distributions.<BR/><BR/>I found it via Suresh Venkatasubramianian's <BR/><A HREF="http://geomblog.blogspot.com/2004/05/zipfs-law-and-log-normal-distributions.html" REL="nofollow">Geomblog</A>.Mark Dominushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17698641253266210249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264226589944705290.post-75841426804382204452007-10-07T19:59:00.000-07:002007-10-07T19:59:00.000-07:00It's interesting that they claim a power law. Aft...It's interesting that they claim a power law. After reading Cosma Shalizi's remarks about the tendencies of physicists to hallucinate power law relations when they should be inquiring into alternatives -- especial the log-normal -- I'm reflexively skeptical.<BR/>http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/491.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com