Episode 04: Zipf's Law and Randomness as a Mechanism

Summary:

We connect size-frequency distirbutions with Zipf's famous law, contemplate extreme outliers in sports, and start on random walks as a source of strange scaling and statistical structure. Random walks give us Gaussians (zzzz) but also very unexpected long term behavior.

Date:

2016/09/08

Duration:

1:13:05

2016/09/08

1:13:05

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