Pat & All: (01)
apologies in advance if this is out of context, the volume of posts
lately has been hard to keep up with ... (02)
Pat Hayes wrote:
> At 12:01 PM +0700 2/16/08, paola.dimaio@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> John and all
>>
>>
>>
>> The web may be large and complex, but it is definitely *not* random
>>
>>
>> can we agree on 'chaotic' instead, which is my interpretation of what
>> 'random' was intended to purport in the context of this discussion
>
> 'Chaotic' means that the final state of a system depends on arbitrarily
> small changes to its input. The Web isn't chaotic in this sense. I
> wouldn't say that the Web is chaotic in any informal sense of the word,
> either. Messy, it may well be. Fortunately, 'messy' hasn't yet got a
> technical meaning.
> (03)
Actually, the web is neither random or chaotic. It's been show to
exhibit characteristics of a scale free network which obeys a power law. (04)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free_network (05)
Some interesting research regarding how this is getting played out in
RDF is available here ... (06)
http://rhizomik.net/livingsw/ (07)
>
> Pat
> (08)
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