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  • As the above discussion of scale-free and random networks illustrates, graphs come in many forms, shapes, and sizes.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • These included cycles, regular lattices, random graphs of the kind pioneered by the great Erdős, random regular graphs, and scale-free networks.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • Most of our blogging and presentation is at one level — trying to introduce the concept of swarming to people who have never studied it before, and have no idea about the ideas of social networking, decentralized systems, complex adaptive systems, scale-free networks, etc.

    Get a swarm started 2009

  • Most of our blogging and presentation is at one level — trying to introduce the concept of swarming to people who have never studied it before, and have no idea about the ideas of social networking, decentralized systems, complex adaptive systems, scale-free networks, etc.

    2009 November 2009

  • A fascinating property of such networks is that they often seem to be scale-free, as emphasized by another Hungarian, Albert-László Barabási, who is now the director of the Center for Network Science at Northeastern University.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • We can also show that on many scales biological networks resemble scale-free networks.

    A Different Perspective on Irreducible Complexity 2008

  • It can be shown that scale-free networks will evolve through preferential attachment.

    A Different Perspective on Irreducible Complexity 2008

  • It can be shown that scale-free networks will evolve through preferential attachment.

    A Different Perspective on Irreducible Complexity 2008

  • So holographic/fractal/scale-free information representation may extend from the Planck scale to the brain, with information repeating every few orders of magnitude.

    Deepak Chopra: Can Science Explain the Soul? 2010

  • Scientists measuring gravitational waves emanating from the Planck scale detect signals - initially thought to be noise - repeating at different scales (e.g. like octaves) separated by several orders of magnitude (described as holographic, fractal, or scale-free dynamics).

    Deepak Chopra: Can Science Explain the Soul? 2010

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