Heavy tails are everywhere. Normal distributions have absurdly light tails. Levy alpha stable distributions have power law tails. Power law tails are everywhere

Heavy tails are everywhere. Normal distributions have absurdly light tails. Levy alpha stable distributions have power law tails. Power law tails are everywhere. Some things with heavy tails: token occurrences comment thread upvotes startup IPOs social follower counts network latency github stars git diffs power station size weather events