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Seth's Blog: Busker's dilemma (busker's delight)

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If you play music on the street with a bucket for donations, every song has to be a showstopper. No chance for interludes or pauses or moments where you build up for the big finish. If the passerby do...

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Seth's Blog: Kingmaker

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Who can make a hit? Zipf's Law is the inevitable distribution of items into a curve that follows the power law. For example, the letter "e" appears in English far more often than the letter "u". For j...

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Seth's Blog: The privilege of being wrong

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When you are truly living on the edge, walking on the moon, perhaps, or caught in the grip of extreme poverty--there's no room at all for error. It's a luxury you can't afford. For the rest of us, tho...

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