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Here's the blurb: "Barabasi mathematically describes networks in the World Wide Web, the internet, the human body, and society at large. Fowler seeks to identify the social and biological links that define us as humans." Don't have time to watch the video? Neither did I. Read the transcript instead. Some good observations, like this: "Statisticians make the assumption that all the observations are independent in order to be able to calculate statistical significance... getting anything to work out in a closed-form model is nearly impossible if you assume that people are taking into account the preferences of other people." Via Clarence Fisher.

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