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Exhilarating, frustrating, muddled, tea-party-ish, revealing, revolting, liberal rationalist, and hyper-optimistic are just a few of the pithy comments I tapped into my magical (inside joke) Apple MacBook. And I hope not to hear the word exponential in general conversation for … Continue reading →

I spent part of a long rainy afternoon two weekends ago slaying a Giant with a small pebble. No, it wasn’t a new video game. The Giant is the large connected component that can crop up in random graphs. Random … Continue reading →

To review, the theory behind viral marketing is that influencers infect their neighbors with an idea, preferably related to purchasing something. These neighbors then spread the idea to their network neighbors, thereby initiating  a cascade— the network tips.  Of course, this … Continue reading →