What is the right programming language for you? Traditionally programming languages are created to concisely model a specific problem, or to maximize expression while solving a broad range of problems. Psychoanalysts have noted that many decisions we make…

Thread by @j_bertolotti: #PhysicsFactlet (299) Fractional derivatives: a brief tutorial/🧵. If you know some calculus you should be able to follow. If you are a Mathematician (or you like to see things done properly...…

Thread by @typesfast: What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks? Modern finance with its obsession with "Return on Equity." To show great ROE almost every CEO stripped their company of all but the bare minimum o...…

The static analysis people have done it again

A half-adder implemented in classic DOOM demonstrating Turing-completeness.

Human brain size nearly quadrupled in the six million years since Homo last shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees, but human brains are thought to have d...

In this paper we explore the specific role of randomness in financial markets, inspired by the beneficial role of noise in many physical systems and in previous applications to complex socio-economic systems. After a short introduction, we study the performance…

It's time to stop making t-SNE & UMAP plots. In a new preprint w/ Tara Chari we show that while they display some correlation with the underlying high-dimension data, they don't preserve local or global structure & are misleading. They're also arbitrary.…

A combined team of researchers from the University of Copenhagen and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences reports that a certain fungus uses chemicals to trick male flies into mating with infected ...

In our October issue: Network representations of complex systems are limited to pairwise interactions, but real-world systems often involve higher-order interactions. A Perspective looks at the new physics emerging from attempts to characterize these int……