Is it possible to describe aspects of human behavior through algorithms? Hewlett-Packard’s Bernardo Huberman believes you can and he has the studies to prove it.
…“We see the same graph, time and again. All content has the same graph of attention and decay.”
The shape of the graph is not a “Huberman distribution” it is one that has been familiar to statisticians since the mid-19th century, it is a lognormal distribution, also known as a Galton distribution.
Since the popularity of all Internet content always exhibits the same curve it is possible to make judgements about which content is rising in popularity and therefore promote it on a web page while removing content that is falling in attention.
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