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Matt Willemsen<p>A catalog of all human cells reveals a mathematical pattern<br>The relationship between size and number also shows up in everything from ecosystems to language<br><a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/catalog-human-cells-math-pattern" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencenews.org/article/catalo</span><span class="invisible">g-human-cells-math-pattern</span></a> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>human</span></a> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/cells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cells</span></a> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/pattern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pattern</span></a> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statistics</span></a> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/size" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>size</span></a> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/number" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>number</span></a> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/InverseRelationship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InverseRelationship</span></a> <a href="https://fedibird.com/tags/Zipf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zipf</span></a></p>
Hobson Lane<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://sciences.social/@conradhackett" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>conradhackett</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@manlius" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>manlius</span></a></span> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Zipf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zipf</span></a>'s law in action. This will happen for the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ranked" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ranked</span></a> list of the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/counts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>counts</span></a> of anything in any naturally evolving system (English word usage, city population, animal counts). This is why there is such a pull towards <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/centralization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>centralization</span></a> for <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SocialNetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialNetworks</span></a>. The answer is more servers. More <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/servers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>servers</span></a> means more large servers which means more <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/decentralization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>decentralization</span></a>. Can't fight <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SocialEvolutionaryDynamics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialEvolutionaryDynamics</span></a>. Harness it!</p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf's_law" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf's</span><span class="invisible">_law</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a></p>
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