Episode 03: Nobody expects the Statistics of Surprise

Summary:

More scaling examples: fluids, money, technology (Moore's law is everywhere), and variety of a system's parts (legos and ants). And then we start on power-law size distributions. Normals are snormals. We want to find out what's behind wealth and words and earthquakes.

Date:

2016/09/06

Duration:

1:14:26

2016/09/06

1:14:26

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Extra:

The sound recording was a debacle but it's there.


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