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It's a real metric in so far as people are actually using your product. Otherwise it's just some email addresses.

Glad vanity metrics is being given a name. I've worked for one which obsessed about user signups long before we even had a product ready. It was ridiculous

I'm pretty sure each point was rendered independently - i.e. the nodes have no interactions. So unlike flocking, they are are entirely coincidental.

I'm not a big fan of this brand of dogmatic skepticism. I've skimmed through the paper, and from my limited college level physics, it seems like a plausible theory. Plausible enoug…