Episode 05a: Zipf's Law and Randomness as a Mechanism
Summary:
Please start at 19:45 and consume all way through to the end; lecture from season 10 (2016-09-13). Full blurb: 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