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New paper: Ecological modeling of paleocommunity food webs
Roopnarine, P. D. 2009. Ecological modeling of paleocommunity food webs. in G. Dietl and K. Flessa, eds., Conservation Paleobiology, The Paleontological Society Papers, 15: 195-220. Find the paper her… more →
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Networks; The Power of Hubs
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acolucci wrote 3 weeks ago: How do some webpages on the Internet become so ubiquitous that we are rarely ever less than two sho … more →
He has Connections... How can I get to know Him!!? Network.
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eyc223 wrote 3 weeks ago: The reading for this week, Linked by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi disproves the idea of randomness in netw … more →
New paper: Ecological modeling of paleocommunity food webs
proopnarine wrote 3 weeks ago: Roopnarine, P. D. 2009. Ecological modeling of paleocommunity food webs. in G. Dietl and K. Flessa, … more →
Power law confirmed
proopnarine wrote 1 month ago: Species-level trophic link distributionOkay, this post just disappeared, so let’s try again. T … more →
Coral reef trophic levels, & update
proopnarine wrote 1 month ago: Guild-level trophic link distribution Spent a great week at the Annual Meeting of the Geological Soc … more →
The Mathematics of War
alertindia wrote 1 month ago: In the video below Sean Gourely gives a talk about how the Iraq war and war in general follows the p … more →
Coral reef species link distribution
proopnarine wrote 1 month ago: Species-level trophic link distribution. The data presented in the previous post examined in-link or … more →
Coral reef food web II
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proopnarine wrote 1 month ago: Trophic link distribution What sort of network is the coral reef food web? In other words, how are t … more →
Return on conversation
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Simon Kendrick wrote 2 months ago: EDIT: As has been pointed out, I made a rather embarrassing miscalculation in the original post, whi … more →
Calling Bluffs and Naming Names: Myths about the Internet Topolgy
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Jared wrote 2 months ago: Tanya Berger-Wolf sent me a brave little paper recently: Mathematics and the Internet: A Source of E … more →
The Measurement of Whispers
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miroslodki wrote 3 months ago: The Measurement of Whispers Prologue*: It has been written that Sir Walter Raleigh wagered Queen Eli … more →
The Black Swan
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Francesco wrote 3 months ago: Black Swans swimming in Reading, UK Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s (the author of “The Black Sw … more →
Is the Mother of All Black Swans Coming?
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paulbarsch wrote 3 months ago: Whether you like Nassim Taleb’s writing style or not, his books and the ideas within are worth … more →
scl, sails and surgery
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Danny Calegari wrote 4 months ago: I have just uploaded a paper to the arXiv, entitled “Scl, sails and surgery”. The paper … more →
Small Worlds
Jared wrote 4 months ago: Piere Fraigniaud and George Giakkoupis from the University of Paris at Diderot have a really nice pa … more →
Some animals can bet at the Stock Exchange while beating the market up to ten times
Vitorino Ramos wrote 5 months ago: Last year, at the beginning of October I decided to dedicate my second post on financial markets (I, … more →
Uncorrelated Risk and Complex Systems
julianeverett wrote 5 months ago: An interesting article in the Wall Street Journal by the father of modern portfolio theory, Harry Ma … more →
From Prioritised Backlog to Componentised ROI Model
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julianeverett wrote 6 months ago: In the last post we argued for a more rigourous, quantitative approach to featureset valuation over … more →
Power Law Revisited
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Skyler Tanner wrote 6 months ago: A really awesome slide When I first stated this law I noted that might add commentary on the notion … more →
