Episode 08: Benoît Mandelbrot's dream of efficient language

Summary:

The Quickening: Simon versus Mandlbrot. Is Zipf's law produced by random growth or evolutionary optimization? Or accidentally both?

Date:

2015/09/24

Duration:

1:13:53

2015/09/24

1:13:53

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(Adjacent: Colbert punditry-based Quickening here and here.)