Hey Marc,
I appreciate this pithy insight, this was something that I was not aware of.
Back when I was living on Oahu we probably would have tried to see if there was at least something in a more laid back color/print before sending him on his way
Seed Magazine had an interesting posting on the intersection of music & math a while back: A Tel Aviv University professor melds math and sociology of the Internet to predict the next big thing in music
Even in math Watts and Strogatz, Barabasi-Albert timing is indeed important.Professor Yuval Shavitt, of Tel Aviv University’s School of Electric Engineering, is melding math and sociology to describe mass behavior on the Internet. He is the principal investigator of DIMES, a project that hopes to map the structure and topology of the Internet, begun four years ago. And for the past year, he has used data-mining tools to collect and interpret massive amounts of data from file-sharing networks. By applying a decades-old sociological theory that describes the spread of information in social networks to the online world, he has been able to develop a predictive algorithm that identifies musicians who will ascend from local popularity to national stardom.
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