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Hannah Fry’s book Hello World.
Tim Harford • The Data Detective
You and Your Research
Richard W. Hamming's lecture emphasizes the importance of pursuing significant research, setting high personal goals, and fostering confidence, creativity, and dedication to achieve excellence in one's career and contributions.
d37ugbyn3rpeym.cloudfront.net“Dunbar’s number” is a theoretical cognitive limit on the number of stable social relationships humans can maintain at one time. According to Robin Dunbar, a British anthropologist, humans have the cognitive capacity to keep track of somewhere around 150 close personal connections. Beyond this limited circle, we start treating people less like indi
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the vast bulk of people list somewhere between about 150 and 250 friends, and, second, there is a long tail to the right with a very small number of people having a very large number of friends.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Christopher Allen • The Dunbar Number as a Limit to Group Sizes
used the average number of different people phoned during a month (essentially the sympathy group, or 15-layer) to explore changes in network size with age.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
professor later explained that these were “Fermi