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🌀 You may have once seen a giant face in the clouds. Perhaps it took you aback, amused you, or maybe it prompted an “uncanny valley” kind of sensation—realness, but with a lingering unease.
🔗 http://nautil.us/blog/why-we-hear-voices-in-random-noise?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
📌 Philip Jaekl is a freelance writer interested in cognitive neuroscience. He’s held postdoctoral research positions, investigating auditory-visual sensory integration, at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and at the University of Rochester in New York State, where he currently resides.
🔗 http://nautil.us/blog/why-we-hear-voices-in-random-noise?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
📌 Philip Jaekl is a freelance writer interested in cognitive neuroscience. He’s held postdoctoral research positions, investigating auditory-visual sensory integration, at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and at the University of Rochester in New York State, where he currently resides.
Nautilus
Why We Hear Voices in Random Noise
You may have once seen a giant face in the clouds. Perhaps it took you aback, amused you, or maybe it prompted an “uncanny valley”…
🌀Non-equilibrium quantum systems
(Potentially useful lecture-note material)
Giuseppe E. Santoro,
SISSA, Trieste
🔗 http://indico.ictp.it/event/7644/material/2/2.pdf
Here is a collection of notes which contain material relevant to the Course on “Non-equilibrium quantum systems” held within the Spring College on “Physics of Complex Systems”. The material has no pretense of being coherently organized in any way. Being a “collage” of different lecture notes, please be aware that even the LaTex is not perfectly
consistent: there might be undefined references, or multiply defined labels. Sorry, this is not a book.
(Potentially useful lecture-note material)
Giuseppe E. Santoro,
SISSA, Trieste
🔗 http://indico.ictp.it/event/7644/material/2/2.pdf
Here is a collection of notes which contain material relevant to the Course on “Non-equilibrium quantum systems” held within the Spring College on “Physics of Complex Systems”. The material has no pretense of being coherently organized in any way. Being a “collage” of different lecture notes, please be aware that even the LaTex is not perfectly
consistent: there might be undefined references, or multiply defined labels. Sorry, this is not a book.
🗞 Who With Whom And How?: Extracting Large Social Networks Using Search Engines
Stefan Siersdorfer, Philipp Kemkes, Hanno Ackermann, Sergej Zerr
🔗 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.08285v1
📌ABSTRACT
Social network analysis is leveraged in a variety of applications such as identifying influential entities, detecting communities with special interests, and determining the flow of information and innovations. However, existing approaches for extracting social networks from unstructured Web content do not scale well and are only feasible for small graphs. In this paper, we introduce novel methodologies for query-based search engine mining, enabling efficient extraction of social networks from large amounts of Web data. To this end, we use patterns in phrase queries for retrieving entity connections, and employ a bootstrapping approach for iteratively expanding the pattern set. Our experimental evaluation in different domains demonstrates that our algorithms provide high quality results and allow for scalable and efficient construction of social graphs.
Stefan Siersdorfer, Philipp Kemkes, Hanno Ackermann, Sergej Zerr
🔗 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1701.08285v1
📌ABSTRACT
Social network analysis is leveraged in a variety of applications such as identifying influential entities, detecting communities with special interests, and determining the flow of information and innovations. However, existing approaches for extracting social networks from unstructured Web content do not scale well and are only feasible for small graphs. In this paper, we introduce novel methodologies for query-based search engine mining, enabling efficient extraction of social networks from large amounts of Web data. To this end, we use patterns in phrase queries for retrieving entity connections, and employ a bootstrapping approach for iteratively expanding the pattern set. Our experimental evaluation in different domains demonstrates that our algorithms provide high quality results and allow for scalable and efficient construction of social graphs.
⭕️ AI just won a poker tournament against professional players:
🔗 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2119815-ai-just-won-a-poker-tournament-against-professional-players/
🔗 https://www.newscientist.com/article/2119815-ai-just-won-a-poker-tournament-against-professional-players/
New Scientist
AI just won a poker tournament against professional players
A poker-playing artificial intelligence has claimed victory against humans, winning with a lead of $1.7 million by constantly tweaking its strategy
📄 Trade-offs between driving nodes and
time-to-control in complex networks
Sergio Pequito, Victor M. Preciado, #Barabasi , George J. Pappas
🔗 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9217/cb81f364d6a5bad0f70d3c905ba49e6f4e5a.pdf
📌ABSTRACT
We first review some concepts from control theory , graph theory, and structural systems theory. We also include some notions of computational complexity needed in our analysis.
time-to-control in complex networks
Sergio Pequito, Victor M. Preciado, #Barabasi , George J. Pappas
🔗 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9217/cb81f364d6a5bad0f70d3c905ba49e6f4e5a.pdf
📌ABSTRACT
We first review some concepts from control theory , graph theory, and structural systems theory. We also include some notions of computational complexity needed in our analysis.
📄 Experimental econophysics: Complexity, selforganization, and emergent properties
J.P.Huang
Department of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
🔗 http://polymer.bu.edu/hes/rp-huang15econ.pdf
📌 A B S T R A C T
Experimental econophysics is concerned with statistical physics of humans in the laboratory, and it is based on controlled human experiments developed by physicists to study some problems related toe conomics or finance. It relies on controlled human experiments in the laboratory together with agent-based modeling (for computer simulations and/or analytical theory), with an attempt to reveal the general cause-effect relationship between specific conditions and emergent properties of real economic/financial markets (a kind of complex adaptive systems). Here I #review the latest progress in the field, namely, stylized facts, herd behavior, contrarian behavior, spontaneous cooperation, partial information, and risk management. Also, I highlight the connections between such progress and other topics of traditional statistical physics. The main theme of the review is to show diverse emergent properties of the laboratory markets, originating from self-organization due to the nonlinear interactions among heterogeneous humans or agents (complexity).
J.P.Huang
Department of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
🔗 http://polymer.bu.edu/hes/rp-huang15econ.pdf
📌 A B S T R A C T
Experimental econophysics is concerned with statistical physics of humans in the laboratory, and it is based on controlled human experiments developed by physicists to study some problems related toe conomics or finance. It relies on controlled human experiments in the laboratory together with agent-based modeling (for computer simulations and/or analytical theory), with an attempt to reveal the general cause-effect relationship between specific conditions and emergent properties of real economic/financial markets (a kind of complex adaptive systems). Here I #review the latest progress in the field, namely, stylized facts, herd behavior, contrarian behavior, spontaneous cooperation, partial information, and risk management. Also, I highlight the connections between such progress and other topics of traditional statistical physics. The main theme of the review is to show diverse emergent properties of the laboratory markets, originating from self-organization due to the nonlinear interactions among heterogeneous humans or agents (complexity).