Interesting Article About Networks

The main finding in the paper was that a large network could be made small very quickly with just a few random connections, or connections beyond those that are nearby or clustered. A disease might spread in a small community, but one or two people bringing it outside that community will have an outsized impact on the spread of the disease. Information can travel much more quickly and efficiently in the brain – or on the internet – with the introduction of a small number of connections outside a cluster of neurons or nodes.