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 .n014 p245 "eight articles by Erdös and Rényi that established random graph theory ... listed in Karonski & Rucinski in the book [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/1328847673 | The Mathematics of Paul Erdös ]] Springer 1997" at OSU and UW
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 .n014 p245 "eight articles by Erdös and Rényi that established random graph theory ... listed in Karonski & Rucinski in the book [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/1328847673 | The Mathematics of Paul Erdös ]] Springer 1997" book at OSU and UW
 .p031 1998 graphing the size of the web with students [[ https://www.ralbert.me/ | Réka Albert ]] and [[ https://stat.kaist.ac.kr/~hjeong/| Hawoong Jeong ]]
 .p041 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Granovetter | Mark Granovetter ]] social networks
 .p043 More likely to learn about job openings through weak ties 28% than strong ties 17%
 .p044 strong clusters connected with weak ties better model than Erdös random graph
 .p046 unison clapping evolves from audiende random clapping
 .p047 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Strogatz | Steven Strogatz ]] at Cornell, author [[https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?custom_edit=false&query=anywhere%3A(The%20Joy%20of%20x)&searchType=bl&suppress=true | The Joy of X ]]
 .p047 [[ https://sites.google.com/oakland.edu/grossman/home/the-erdoes-number-project | Erdös number ]] Jerry Grossman webpage
  . my Erdös number is "maybe four, via space advocate Ken Brakke (a now-retired math professor with Erdös number 3)
 .p052 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering_coefficient | seemingly inverse of random and distant connections ]]
 .p057 The likelihood that a typical document links to your webpage is zero. The likelihood that your CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS and USEFUL webpage CHAINS to most other webpages is very high.
  . wrong measure. The "web" is weblike, not a dense multidimensional "theads to everywhere" unrelated jumble. The real question is whether internet users can find what they want, unlike an annoying advertisement that appears on every screen with a "webpage" on it.
 .p059 Three [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albright_College | Albright College ]] students "demonstrate" that Kevin Bacon is connected to everyone in Hollywood by two or three links
 .p059 [[ https://oracleofbacon.org/ | The Oracle of Bacon ]] website built from imdb scraping
 .p065 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_von_Schmoller | Gustav von Schmoller ]] shouts "But are there laws of economics?" Economist [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilfredo_Pareto | Vilfredo Pareto ]] dresses as beggar and asks him "can you tell me where I can find a restaurant where you can eat for nothing?" von Schmoller replies "there are no such restaurants ..." and Pareto responds "so there '''are''' laws in economics!"
 .p070 Power law networks (a few nodes with many links, many nodes with few links) are [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free_network | scale free ]]
 .p072 80/20 rule [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle | Pareto principle ]]
 .p076 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_G._Wilson | Kenneth G. Wilson ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_transition | phase transitions ]]
 .p086 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_attachment | preferential attachment ]]
 .p088 static models unable to generate power laws
 .p090 [[ https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/paul-krapivsky | Paul Krapivsky ]]
 .p093 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inktomi | Inktomi ]] search engine developer before 2000, replaced by better Google
 .p094 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet | De Havilland Comet ]][[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_fatigue | airframe metal fatigue ]] crashes, informed design of [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_707 | Boeing 707 ]]
 .p096 "fitness connectivity product" ... author's neologism, no citation
 .p099 Einstein's [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectric_effect | Photoelectric effect ]]
 .p099 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose%E2%80%93Einstein_condensate | Bose-Einstein condensation ]] such as superconductors
 .p100 [[ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2001/summary/ | alkali atom gas Bose-Einstein condensation ]]
 .p101 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginestra_Bianconi | Ginestra Bianconi ]]
 .p105 in this 2017 book, Unix on most number crunchers, Windows on most PCs, Linux with 2.1%
  . in 2025, Windows still dominates desktops, Linux dominates everything else
 .p110 '''the''' July 2 [[ https://www.nwcouncil.org/reports/columbia-river-history/blackout/ | 1996 blackout ]] ... a few minutes to several hours
 .p113 January 2000 "we" tested internet resilience, model with 80% of nodes removed can still function, scale free is resilient
 .p114 Failure disproportionally affects small nodes
 .p115 Internet and cell(?) networks break only after ''all'' nodes removed ... practically, never
 .p115 Operation [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eligible_Receiver_97 | Eligible Receiver ]] DoD mock cyber attack
  .major vulnerabilities, led to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command | United States Cyber Command ]]
 .p118 1911 federal protection of sea otters, sea urchins eaten, kelp and finfish increased, protecting coasts from erosion
 .p119 more 1996 blackout, see p110 above
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  . W. Mittlestadt author at BPA - Ted Mittlestaedt connection?
 .p123 Gaëtan Dugas 40/248 "AIDS patient zero"
 .p128 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elihu_Katz | Elihu Katz ]] sociologist, studied innovation adoption by doctors
 .p130 1993 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton | Apple Newton ]] PDA ... power hog, premature
 .p132 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILOVEYOU | Love Bug ]] May 2000 Windows [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_worm | computer worm ]]
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 .p135 viruses in scale free networks "are practically unstoppable"
 .p138 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain | Wilt Chamberlain ]] claimed 20,000 sexual partners
 .p138 A 15yo in Botswana today (2014?) has a 90% lifetime risk of AIDS death
 .p144 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baran | Paul Baran ]] proposed mesh network for survivability, ignored, ARPA rediscovered mesh independently
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 .p150 pre-1999 tools modelling random networks were simply wrong. Instead scale-free topologies
 .p153 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_7007_incident | AS 7007 Internet disruption April 25 1997 ]]
 .p159 Experts predict 10,000 telemetric devices per human by 2010. This in a 2014 book. HUH?
 .p169 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cass_Sunstein | Cass Sunstein ]] only 15% of political sites link to sites with opposing views. 60% link to agreeing sites.
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  • n014 p245 "eight articles by Erdös and Rényi that established random graph theory ... listed in Karonski & Rucinski in the book The Mathematics of Paul Erdös Springer 1997" book at OSU and UW

  • p031 1998 graphing the size of the web with students Réka Albert and Hawoong Jeong

  • p041 Mark Granovetter social networks

  • p043 More likely to learn about job openings through weak ties 28% than strong ties 17%
  • p044 strong clusters connected with weak ties better model than Erdös random graph
  • p046 unison clapping evolves from audiende random clapping
  • p047 Steven Strogatz at Cornell, author The Joy of X

  • p047 Erdös number Jerry Grossman webpage

    • my Erdös number is "maybe four, via space advocate Ken Brakke (a now-retired math professor with Erdös number 3)
  • p052 seemingly inverse of random and distant connections

  • p057 The likelihood that a typical document links to your webpage is zero. The likelihood that your CONSIDERATE OF OTHERS and USEFUL webpage CHAINS to most other webpages is very high.
    • wrong measure. The "web" is weblike, not a dense multidimensional "theads to everywhere" unrelated jumble. The real question is whether internet users can find what they want, unlike an annoying advertisement that appears on every screen with a "webpage" on it.
  • p059 Three Albright College students "demonstrate" that Kevin Bacon is connected to everyone in Hollywood by two or three links

  • p059 The Oracle of Bacon website built from imdb scraping

  • p065 Gustav von Schmoller shouts "But are there laws of economics?" Economist Vilfredo Pareto dresses as beggar and asks him "can you tell me where I can find a restaurant where you can eat for nothing?" von Schmoller replies "there are no such restaurants ..." and Pareto responds "so there are laws in economics!"

  • p070 Power law networks (a few nodes with many links, many nodes with few links) are scale free

  • p072 80/20 rule Pareto principle

  • p076 Kenneth G. Wilson phase transitions

  • p086 preferential attachment

  • p088 static models unable to generate power laws
  • p090 Paul Krapivsky

  • p093 Inktomi search engine developer before 2000, replaced by better Google

  • p094 De Havilland Cometairframe metal fatigue crashes, informed design of Boeing 707

  • p096 "fitness connectivity product" ... author's neologism, no citation
  • p099 Einstein's Photoelectric effect

  • p099 Bose-Einstein condensation such as superconductors

  • p100 alkali atom gas Bose-Einstein condensation

  • p101 Ginestra Bianconi

  • p105 in this 2017 book, Unix on most number crunchers, Windows on most PCs, Linux with 2.1%
    • in 2025, Windows still dominates desktops, Linux dominates everything else
  • p110 the July 2 1996 blackout ... a few minutes to several hours

  • p113 January 2000 "we" tested internet resilience, model with 80% of nodes removed can still function, scale free is resilient
  • p114 Failure disproportionally affects small nodes
  • p115 Internet and cell(?) networks break only after all nodes removed ... practically, never

  • p115 Operation Eligible Receiver DoD mock cyber attack

  • p118 1911 federal protection of sea otters, sea urchins eaten, kelp and finfish increased, protecting coasts from erosion
  • p119 more 1996 blackout, see p110 above
  • n119 p262 "Model validation for the August 10, 1996 WSCC system outage" IEEE Transactions on Power Systems PSU TK1.I163
    • W. Mittlestadt author at BPA - Ted Mittlestaedt connection?
  • p123 Gaëtan Dugas 40/248 "AIDS patient zero"
  • p128 Elihu Katz sociologist, studied innovation adoption by doctors

  • p130 1993 Apple Newton PDA ... power hog, premature

  • p132 Love Bug May 2000 Windows computer worm

  • p134 most computer viruses last six to 14 months
  • p135 viruses in scale free networks "are practically unstoppable"
  • p138 Wilt Chamberlain claimed 20,000 sexual partners

  • p138 A 15yo in Botswana today (2014?) has a 90% lifetime risk of AIDS death
  • p144 Paul Baran proposed mesh network for survivability, ignored, ARPA rediscovered mesh independently

  • p149 "Without knowing the Internet's topology it is impossible to design better tools and services" Author bullshit. Evolvability does not require centralized awareness
  • p150 pre-1999 tools modelling random networks were simply wrong. Instead scale-free topologies
  • p153 AS 7007 Internet disruption April 25 1997

  • p159 Experts predict 10,000 telemetric devices per human by 2010. This in a 2014 book. HUH?
  • p169 Cass Sunstein only 15% of political sites link to sites with opposing views. 60% link to agreeing sites.

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