Frank Hecker
@frankhecker
Frank Hecker
@frankhecker
Compare to Michael Nielsen’s recent essay.
What it says on the tin: a comparison of the protocols (ATproto is used by Bluesky) and the design choices they made.
ContentAsia list of syndicated programs for Taiwan.
Review of Math Academy, emphasizes need for conceptual understanding. A more useful review than Michael Pershan’s or Dan Meyer’s.
What are some good sources of comprehensive data on possibly log-normal behavior in culture and entertainment? Maybe box-office figures?
Good overview of creator economy dynamics marred by uncritical acceptance of power-law distributions that are probably log-normal.
File under “probably log-normal”. See for example the deviation from straight log-lines in the graphs.
First review I’ve seen of Sublime app.
Many (most? almost all?) results (as ranked by some metric) are produced through a sequence of events whose effects multiply together. The log-normal distribution is the real “normal” distribution.
The creator economy and Log-normal is the new normal
This is my new obsession, which started with my analysis of Patreon earnings.
An analysis of project earnings on Patreon, a service with high-quality data available. Result: It’s the log-normal distribution.