The Zipf Mystery

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RELATED LINKS AND SOURCES BELOW!

http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce
http://www.instagram.com/electricpants

WordCount.org http://www.wordcount.org/

How many days have you been alive? http://www.beatcanvas.com/daysalive.asp

random letter generator: http://www.dave-reed.com/Nifty/randSeq.html

Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: https://www.youtube.com/user/obscuresorrows

Word frequency resources:

[lemmatized] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Most_common_words_in
http://www.uow.edu.au/~dlee/corpora.htm
http://www.wordfrequency.info
http://www.anc.org/data/anc-se....cond-release/frequen
http://www.titania.bham.ac.uk/docs/
http://www.kilgarriff.co.uk/bnc-readme.html#raw
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki..../Wiktionary:Frequenc
http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/bncfreq/
[PDF] http://www.wordfrequency.info/files/entries.pdf
[combined Wikipedia and Gutenberg] http://www.monlp.com/2012/04/1....6/calculating-word-a
http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/files/100k_samples.txt
http://corpus.byu.edu/
http://corpus.leeds.ac.uk/list.html
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ja1_AAAAQBAJ&dq=word+frequency+coca&lr=
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/ki....t/2009s/clt231/NLTK/

Great Zipf's law papers:

http://colala.bcs.rochester.ed....u/papers/piantadosi2
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~ycharles/sign708.pdf
http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0412004.pdf
http://www-personal.umich.edu/....~mejn/courses/2006/c

Zipf’s law articles and discussions:

http://www.theatlantic.com/mag....azine/archive/2002/0
http://io9.com/the-mysterious-....law-that-governs-the
https://plus.maths.org/content..../os/latestnews/may-a
http://judson.blogs.nytimes.co....m/2009/05/19/math-an
https://plus.maths.org/content..../mystery-zipf?src=ao
http://www.datasciencecentral.....com/profiles/blogs/w
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=f8GrzlnMSm8C&pg=PA62&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0802.4393v1.pdf
http://www.pnas.org/content/108/9/3526.full
http://lewisdartnell.com/language_page.htm
http://wugology.com/zipfs-law/

other Zipf’s law PDFs

http://ftp.iza.org/dp3928.pdf
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1402.2965.pdf
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1104.3199.pdf
http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~jim/zipfjrh.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm....c/articles/PMC283474
http://polymer.bu.edu/hes/articles/pgs02a.pdf
in untranslated language: http://arxiv.org/pdf/0808.2904.pdf
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~xg....abaix/papers/zipf.pd
http://www.hpl.hp.com/research..../idl/papers/ranking/
http://statweb.stanford.edu/~o....wen/courses/306a/Zip
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.0448v3.pdf
http://www.kornai.com/Papers/glotto5.pdf

Zipf’s law slides:

http://www.slideshare.net/gues....t9fc47a/nlp-new-word

Pareto Principle and related ‘laws’:

http://www.squawkpoint.com/201....3/03/pareto-principl
http://billyshall.com/blog/post/paretos-principle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle

Random typing and Zipf:

http://www.longtail.com/the_lo....ng_tail/2006/09/is_z

health 80/20: http://archive.ahrq.gov/resear....ch/findings/factshee

Principle of least effort:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Principle_of_least_e
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
http://www.pnas.org/content/100/3/788.full.pdf [PDF]
http://csiss.org/classics/content/99

self organized criticality:

http://journal.frontiersin.org..../article/10.3389/fns

Hapax Legomenon:

http://campus.albion.edu/engli....sh/2011/02/15/hapax-
http://www.dailywritingtips.co....m/is-that-a-hapax-le
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_legomenon
[PDF] http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/J10-4003
http://www.wired.com/2012/01/h....apax-legomena-and-zi
http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/m....ain/content/view/402
http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/m....ain/content/view/36/

Learning curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_curve

Forgetting curve:
http://www.trainingindustry.co....m/wiki/entries/forge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve

Experience curve effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Experience_curve_eff

Forgetting

and zipf's law: http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/wordp....ress/wp-content/uplo
http://public.psych.iastate.ed....u/shacarp/Wixted_Car
http://marshalljonesjr.com/you....ll-remember-less-tha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting
https://www.reddit.com/r/Showe....rthoughts/comments/3

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http://www.youtube.com/jakechudnow
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