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Albert-László Barabási

2014 003.7 BAR Tigard Lib

• 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

  • major vulnerabilities, led to 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
• 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.

• p170 The web encourages social fragmentation.

• p172 French judge orders US Yahoo to stop auctions of Nazi memorabilia

  • successfully appealed in 2010

• p173 Lawrence Lessig: impossible to enforce such laws in borderless cyberspace

• n185 p270 WIT what is there? archived 2009

• p192 p53 molecule is a tumor suppressor gene

• p193 drugs available target 500 out of 30,000 proteins in the human body
• p201 "Byzantine monoliths" inflexible organizations ... "what some call" CITATION NEEDED

• p209 Walter W. Powell paper: Neither Market nor Hierarchy: Network Forms of Organization

• p220 Hawoong Jeong

• p229 Executive control of cognitive processes in task switching - Overloads slow down humans

• p230 frequent task switching reduces productivity 20 to 40%
• p231 cells "multitask" using modular organization

• p235 Critical phenomena in complex networks

  • the clustering coefficient C(k) of a node with k links is inversely proportional to k

The book has too much metaphorical word salad. This topic may be science someday, but it needs a Darwin to organize and explain it.