Slide Set 07: Mechanisms leading to power-law size distributions: Part 1 | Principles of Complex Systems, Vol. 1

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

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Episode 1: The Ministry of Random Walks (1:33:36)

Clip 1: Department of Random Walks (7:10)

Clip 2: Mean and variance for Random Walks (5:56)

Clip 3: Plinko (2:46)

Clip 4: Counting walks and the Central Limit Theorem (10:40)

Clip 5: Applied knot theory for ties (2:18)

Clip 6: Bean box, tweet success (2:54)

Clip 7: Random walk recap (3:39)

Clip 8: Pascal's and others' triangle (5:10)

Clip 9: The First Return problem (16:24)

Clip 10: Diffusion on finite spaces, networks (5:09)

Clip 11: Scaling relations, river networks (12:22)

Clip 12: Death, failure, generalizations of random walks (3:54)