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		GFK_of_xmaspast on March 11, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Graph Databases 101 Be careful about Barabasi: https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/the-network-non... (FWIW, I had previously read some Barabasi papers and had come away seriously unimpressed, see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9555547)

gilleain on March 11, 2016 [–]

I misremembered Albert-László Barabási for Laszlo Babai - I was wondering why you were unimpressed!

Yes, scale-free networks (and so on, and so on), are oversold. Is his work really that bad though?

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