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The 2011 FOGcon will be held March 11-13 at the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway Hotel in San Francisco. Honored Guests include Pat Murphy and Jeff VanderMeer; Ann VanderMeer, editorial Honored Guest; and the late Fritz Leiber, posthumous Honored Guest. This year’s theme is The City in SF/F.

A shiny quatloo to any attendee who mentions Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities.

I'd love to read reports on this. I can't attend FOGcon myself, if only because it's on the wrong side of the border, but it sounds interesting.

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A shiny quatloo to any attendee who mentions Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities.

Please don't. The journal in question has a silly embargo policy which keeps me from even pointing you to a preprint, but let's just say you shouldn't believe everything you read in Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA), especially when you read theoretical physicists trying to do empirical data analysis. I say this as an former theoretical physicist who now teaches data analysis for a living.

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I had no trouble accessing a PDF.

Possibly my institution's IP addresses are blessed, or something, but I don't think so.

(Or are you speaking of a different paper?)

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cshalizi.livejournal.com

I mean that I've written a paper re-analyzing that data (the sets I could get hold of, anyway), and reached, well, rather different conclusions than they did. And my paper is under review at a journal which doesn't allow preprints.