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A comment on The universal decay of collective memory and attention.

Re:The universal decay of collective memory and attention by hellofunk on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @03:12AM (#18714060)
Even after reading the paper, I find their use of the word “biography” to be a bit strange.
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Re:The universal decay of collective memory and attention by acqq on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @06:27AM (#18714914)
It measures if people are interested enough to read somebody’s Wikipedia entry:

“Current popularity was measured using the number of pageviews received by the Wikipedia biography [39] of each athlete between J u1y 2016 and June 2017*”.

They want to observe the decay of the interest in order to model it.

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