# Nathaniel makes Long Tail

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nathaniel-makes-long-tail/59842>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 7, 2006, 1:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nathaniel-makes-long-tail/59842 "2006-05-07T13:18:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bil_K)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 1:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nathaniel-makes-long-tail/59842/1 "2006-05-07T13:18:36Z")

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So I admit, I’m behind the curve; I just noticed that  
Nathaniel’s RubyConf’05 presentation made the sidebar of

[The Long Tail](http://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/)

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**Author:** ![Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bil_K)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nathaniel-makes-long-tail/59842/2 "2006-05-07T13:36:43Z")

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You know, taken out of context, people might interpret that subject  
line in an unflattering way. 😉

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**Author:** ![Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@Bil\_K](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Bil_K)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/nathaniel-makes-long-tail/59842/3 "2006-05-07T15:58:34Z")

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Context

A. Feldmann and W. Whitt. Fitting mixtures of exponentials to long­tail  
distributions to analyze network performance models. Performance  
Evaluation,

31:245–279, 1998.

Follows discovery that stock market behavior is “longtailed” not normal.