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Zipf's Law (vsauce appreciation thread)
« on: December 14, 2015, 07:27:38 pm »
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Re: Zipf's Law
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2015, 08:25:40 pm »
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Re: Zipf's Law
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2015, 10:01:53 pm »
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Sure, It explains what it is and how it is evident (same as the vsauce video), but it doesn't explain why it is.


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Sir Francis Galton described the Central Limit Theorem as:

I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law of Frequency of Error". The law would have been personified by the Greeks and deified, if they had known of it. It reigns with serenity and in complete self-effacement, amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob, and the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason. Whenever a large sample of chaotic elements are taken in hand and marshalled in the order of their magnitude, an unsuspected and most beautiful form of regularity proves to have been latent all along.


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Re: Zipf's Law
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2015, 10:38:39 pm »
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The quest for why is nonsensical.
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Re: Zipf's Law
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2015, 11:00:47 pm »
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Says you.
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Re: Zipf's Law
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2015, 07:35:45 pm »
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Re: Zipf's Law
« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2015, 09:05:53 pm »
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Quote from: Sir_Hans on December 14, 2015, 11:00:47 pm
Says you.

It is. The existence of a reason, a why, assumes that there is a thinking being that formulated an intent. The central limit theorem is a result of mathematics that unequivocally follows from a set of formal definitions. It is a logical truth, transcending absolutely everything including time and space.
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Re: Zipf's Law
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2015, 10:38:13 pm »
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There is no why.

There simply is.

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Re: Zipf's Law
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2015, 11:23:17 pm »
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Quote from: WITCHCRAFT on December 15, 2015, 10:38:13 pm
There simply is.
There is simply is*, learn the grammar goddamit!
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Re: Zipf's Law (vsauce appreciation thread)
« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2015, 12:48:55 am »
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is + is = isis
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Re: Zipf's Law (vsauce appreciation thread)
« Reply #10 on: December 16, 2015, 06:46:47 pm »
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Quote from: Sir_Hans on December 16, 2015, 12:48:55 am
Zipf's Law is not a Consequence of the Central Limit Theorem
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200179689_Zipf%27s_Law_is_not_a_Consequence_of_the_Central_Limit_Theorem
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Yes? Does it sound like I implied it was? Because I didn't.
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