Here’s an interesting article on how language changes and how adoption or use of something can influence the rate of change.
http://www.sciencecodex.com/harvard_scientists_predict_the_future_of_the_past_tense
Here’s a really cool article on the how content can be filtered. The author likens machine learning to evolution.
http://karmatics.com/docs/evolution-and-wisdom-of-crowds.html
It’s worth a peak.
Thank to Lani and everyone who came last night.
We had about 12 people. I asked Lani to come on short notice and she was happy to come along to answer any math questions that would come up. Given the number of people that couldn’t make it, I was surprised. If people hadn’t have been so busy we would have had a fairly large group.
I went through a paper on Centrality and Aids and also we all shared a few anecdotes. http://www.analytictech.com/networks/centaids.htm
This paper is quite convincing to me that Eigenvector Centrality is a measure of something useful. Of course there is all the argument about how you model a network. (What is a tie etc.)
There is another article I mentioned on Scale Free Networks from Scientific American. It’s mentioned earlier in this Blog.
Darcy