Friday, June 08, 2007

Power Laws

I'm quick to rant and mock when it comes to power laws. Many of you have heard me do this before on multiple occasions. (Just search for 'power laws' in this blog and you'll see what I mean...)

Anyway, Aaron Clauset has just written a review with Mark Newman and Cosma Shalizi about getting power laws from empirical data. I don't know Cosma (though I know of Cosma), but I have tremendous respect for Mark and Aaron has both people and scientists. (Actually, Aaron has commented on this blog once or twice.)

The real reason I'm including the link is not the new article but rather the fantastic poem in Aaron's blog post. Go take a look at it.

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