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WordCount.org www.wordcount.org/
How many days have you been alive? www.beatcanvas.com/daysalive.asp
random letter generator: www.dave-reed.com/Nifty/randSeq.html
Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: youtube.com/user/obscuresorrows

Word frequency resources:
[lemmatized] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_common_words_in_English
www.uow.edu.au/~dlee/corpora.htm
www.wordfrequency.info/
www.anc.org/data/anc-second-release/frequency-data…
www.titania.bham.ac.uk/docs/
www.kilgarriff.co.uk/bnc-readme.html#raw
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Frequency_lists
ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/bncfreq/
[PDF] www.wordfrequency.info/files/entries.pdf
[combined Wikipedia and Gutenberg] www.monlp.com/2012/04/16/calculating-word-and-n-gr…
corpus.byu.edu/coca/files/100k_samples.txt
corpus.byu.edu/
corpus.leeds.ac.uk/list.html
books.google.co.uk/books?id=ja1_AAAAQBAJ&dq=word+f…
www.ling.helsinki.fi/kit/2009s/clt231/NLTK/book/ch…

Great Zipf's law papers:
colala.bcs.rochester.edu/papers/piantadosi2014zipf…
www.ling.upenn.edu/~ycharles/sign708.pdf
arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0412004.pdf
www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/courses/2006/cmplxsys…

Zipf’s law articles and discussions:
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/04/seein…
io9.com/the-mysterious-law-that-governs-the-size-o…
plus.maths.org/content/os/latestnews/may-aug08/foo…
judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/math-and-the-c…
plus.maths.org/content/mystery-zipf?src=aop
www.datasciencecentral.com/profiles/blogs/why-zipf…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law

other Zipf’s law PDFs
ftp.iza.org/dp3928.pdf
arxiv.org/pdf/1402.2965.pdf
arxiv.org/pdf/1104.3199.pdf
www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~jim/zipfjrh.pdf
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2834740/#pone…
polymer.bu.edu/hes/articles/pgs02a.pdf
in untranslated language: arxiv.org/pdf/0808.2904.pdf
pages.stern.nyu.edu/~xgabaix/papers/zipf.pdf
www.hpl.hp.com/research/idl/papers/ranking/ranking…
statweb.stanford.edu/~owen/courses/306a/ZipfAndGut…
arxiv.org/pdf/1310.0448v3.pdf
www.kornai.com/Papers/glotto5.pdf

Zipf’s law slides:
www.slideshare.net/guest9fc47a/nlp-new-words

Pareto Principle and related ‘laws’:
www.squawkpoint.com/2013/03/pareto-principle/
billyshall.com/blog/post/paretos-principle
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle

Random typing and Zipf:
www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2006/09/is_zipfs_la…
health 80/20: archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/cost…

Principle of least effort:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_effort
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
www.pnas.org/content/100/3/788.full.pdf [PDF]
csiss.org/classics/content/99

self organized criticality:
journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnsys.2014…

Hapax Legomenon:
campus.albion.edu/english/2011/02/15/hapax-legomen…
www.dailywritingtips.com/is-that-a-hapax-legomenon…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_legomenon
[PDF] www.aclweb.org/anthology/J10-4003
www.wired.com/2012/01/hapax-legomena-and-zipfs-law…
oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/content/view/402/450/in…
oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/content/view/36/166/ind…

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

Forgetting curve:
www.trainingindustry.com/wiki/entries/forgetting-c…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting_curve

Experience curve effects: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects

Forgetting
and zipf's law: act-r.psy.cmu.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/201…
public.psych.iastate.edu/shacarp/Wixted_Carpenter_…
marshalljonesjr.com/youll-remember-less-than-001-o…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgetting
www.redlib.matthew.science/r/Showerthoughts/comments/3gu9qk/it…

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@harrys4698

8 years ago

80% of Michaels hair is on 20% of his head

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@gemworm

4 years ago

In group chats: 80% of the talking is done by 20% of the members

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@twodogstar2565

1 year ago

It's extremely hilarious to read the list of 100 most used words in order and try to sound like you're actually trying to explain something to someone

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@rohitsinha3600

1 year ago

I love how he says the most used words in English as if it's a sentence of a good ol' English poem.

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@evanmclellan9014

7 years ago

80% of my attention is on 20% of the screen

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@mlgeorge.

4 years ago

Fun fact: He had said 16 words before the first “the” he said

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@coolerman_13

1 year ago

"by focusing on 20% of what's wrong, you can expect to solve 80% of the problems" mind blown

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@PazEr80

5 months ago

Last week I attended a lecture at university about power laws and preferential attachment processes. It's crazy to think that I already knew everything because 8 years ago teenage me was binge watching Vsauce. Thanks Michael for making us smarter in the most entertaining way, honestly no one does it like you. You will never be forgotten.

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@ladyalicent705

4 years ago

In a classroom 80% of the talking is done by 20% of the kids.

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@iwllkllyoo1

8 years ago

so, theoretically, 80% of views on YouTube are on 20% of the videos?

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@lezbeehonest0294

11 months ago

14:40 I've always loved when in conversation, someone uses a word that's out of fashion or hasn't been used in a while, and within like 3 minutes, someone says it again. Or when I watch a streamer that has an article or something on screen and they choose a word from the visible text. Like our brains just latch onto words.

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@mostlyghostey

1 year ago

I think one of the most wonderful things about our "Zipfian Mind" forgetting things, is the chance to experience them "like new" all over again. It's comforting to remember that even if you can't remember all of a book you read, you can have the joy of reading it again and being surprised by the things you forgot.

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@enderboy1824

4 years ago

“The of and to, a in is I. That it for you was with on. As have, but be they.” -Michael This was my senior quote

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@Botpointo

2 years ago

Group projects: 80% of the work is done by 20% of the students

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@Darknight24x

1 year ago

Every time I see this video, I always forget that quote at the end. "I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I've eaten; even so, they have made me." Thank you Michael. 😊

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@colby722

9 months ago

Watching this nearly a decade later. Probably my 20th time revisiting this exact video. By far my favorite video on YouTube. Absolutely beautiful composition and every part makes me think deep every time I watch it. I love this video

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@Silvertarian

8 years ago

Explains why 20% of employees do 80% of the work.

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@finnberuldsen4798

8 years ago

Finding a Vsauce video in your subscriptions feels like finding $20 on the street.

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@freddyjosereginomontalvo4667

1 year ago

I cannot remember all the Vsauce videos I’ve seen any more than all the meals I’ve eaten, even so, they have made me. Thanks, Michael and your team for everything, and thanks to all of you human friends for everything the truth is that in spite of me, being a lonely person, I love every second that I pass with all of you. And as always thanks for making majestic videos Michael.

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@billyma6

1 year ago

i always wondered how zipf would apply to languages like mandarin where it isn’t expressed in itemized components like letters

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