Slide Set 06: Mechanisms leading to power-law size distributions: Part 1 | Principles of Complex Systems

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Slide Set 06: Mechanisms leading to power-law size distributions: Part 1

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Slide Set 07: Mechanisms leading to power-law size distributions: Part 2

We travel the random road to the Snormals. And we have a picnic and a nap.

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Covered in these episodes:

06k: Department of Random Walks (7:10)

06l: Mean and variance for Random Walks (5:56)

06m: Plinko (2:46)

06n: Counting walks and the Central Limit Theorem (10:40)

06o: Applied knot theory for ties (2:18)

07b: Bean box, tweet success (2:54)

07c: Random walk recap (3:39)

07d: Pascal's and others' triangle (5:10)

07e: The First Return problem (16:24)

07f: Diffusion on finite spaces, networks (5:09)

07g: Scaling relations, river networks (12:22)

07h: Death, failure, generalizations of random walks (3:54)

07i: Scaling and variable transfiguration (6:11)

07j: When the TARDIS malfunctions (3:44)

07k: PLIPLO is a NO NO (2:05)

07l: Zipf and his data (10:18)