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Experiencing the modern city
Of all the things that have had a persistent tendency to surprise observers, cities have been among the most prolific. Then again, they’d better be for all their social and economic complexity, for their capacity to be the seed of so … Continue reading
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How big is your language?
This blog post first appeared, as written by me, on The Copernican science blog on December 20, 2012. — It all starts with Zipf’s law. Ever heard of it? It’s a devious little thing, especially when you apply it to … Continue reading
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Tagged allometry, cultural evolution, Heaps-Herdan law, statistical linguistics, Zipf's law
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