Bernhard EisvogelThe Zipf distribution and how to use it to find fake dataIn a course about numerical approximation of probability measure, I recently learned about the Zipf distribution, which mathematically…Feb 6
Josh PauseA Statistical Analysis of “Hamptonese”He used the materials available to him: garbage. He worked for 14 years, literally turning trash into treasure, the above masterpiece.Nov 8, 2021
Sagar SharmaThe Rule of Unequal Popularity: Understanding Zipf’s LawZipf’s Law sounds fancy but it’s pretty simple. Imagine a list of words in a book — some words show up a bunch, like “the” or “and,” while…Dec 20, 2023Dec 20, 2023
Christine YinginBootcampHow Zipf's Law Can Help You Understand the World Around YouZipf’s law is a simple and elegant distribution that describes the relationship between the frequency of words in a language and their…Sep 6, 20231Sep 6, 20231
Diogo RibeiroinA Mathematician view of the WorldConcentration of Government Investment in Few Cities: Advantages, Disadvantages, and the Zipf LawThe concentration of government investment around a few select cities within a country is a topic of considerable debate. While this…Jun 30, 2023Jun 30, 2023
Bernhard EisvogelThe Zipf distribution and how to use it to find fake dataIn a course about numerical approximation of probability measure, I recently learned about the Zipf distribution, which mathematically…Feb 6
Josh PauseA Statistical Analysis of “Hamptonese”He used the materials available to him: garbage. He worked for 14 years, literally turning trash into treasure, the above masterpiece.Nov 8, 2021
Sagar SharmaThe Rule of Unequal Popularity: Understanding Zipf’s LawZipf’s Law sounds fancy but it’s pretty simple. Imagine a list of words in a book — some words show up a bunch, like “the” or “and,” while…Dec 20, 2023
Christine YinginBootcampHow Zipf's Law Can Help You Understand the World Around YouZipf’s law is a simple and elegant distribution that describes the relationship between the frequency of words in a language and their…Sep 6, 20231
Diogo RibeiroinA Mathematician view of the WorldConcentration of Government Investment in Few Cities: Advantages, Disadvantages, and the Zipf LawThe concentration of government investment around a few select cities within a country is a topic of considerable debate. While this…Jun 30, 2023
Rajiv KrishnakumarThe Speedrunning community and Zipf’s LawCan speedrunner game preferences be described by a statistical linguistics law from the 1930s? A rather strange question, you might ask…May 11, 2021
Roman SuziinStar GazersLimit of Software ReuseResearch shows the limit to code re-use. How much can be reused depends on the problem domain.Apr 13, 2021
Twenty SomethingDoing The LeastThis little chat was inspired by Zipf’s Principle of Least Effort, aka “the path of least resistance”. Basically, don’t sweat it, right?..Feb 6, 20231