mathieutd
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Comment · 3 years ago
I don't understand this logic at all. How can more information be bad? If you see a mass that looks very likely to not be cancer, for which the cost of further investigation is higher than the likely benefit, then the rational patient will agree not to investigate further. I don't see how more information can be bad unless you assume that the patient is an idiot or irrational.
Comment · 3 years ago
There is an external force here: gravity.
Comment · 4 years ago
One cool way to generate Zipf's law is through random growth. See an example here for the distribution of cities:
https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/114/3/739/1848099
The idea is that if the growth rate of a city is drawn from the same distribution, regardless of the actual city size, we get Zipf's law. To me this is a reasonable explanation why we see Zipf's law in many places in nature.
Comment · 4 years ago
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