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rn-75 add Felipe's Zip's law note
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been seen once, though now that this list is out there we may see more
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of `deemed-obviously-correct-by`, `worriedly-acked-by`, and `cheered-on-by`
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in the future.
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One can also note that this distribution roughly follows
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[Zip's law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law); the 10th most
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popular line ("improved-by") is about 1/10 as popular as the 1st.
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[This script](https://gist.github.com/felipec/ce491d351c88e4acbdbf6bc02a47223d)
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can be used to replicate the analysis.
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Jakub Narębski &lt;<jnareb@gmail.com>&gt;,
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Markus Jansen &lt;<mja@jansen-preisler.de>&gt; and
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Kaartic Sivaraam &lt;<kaartic.sivaraam@gmail.com>&gt;
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with help from Patrick Steinhardt, Andrew Ardill and
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Jonas Bernoulli.
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with help from Patrick Steinhardt, Andrew Ardill,
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Felipe Contreras and Jonas Bernoulli.

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