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Social physics — mentioned by anigbrowl

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 16:57:22 GMT

It's kind of a mysterious art, and I too mostly rely on scientific papers. It's a surprisingly small field and you need to get into the habit of chasing down citations in papers, because many important ideas got laid out long before the computer power existed to realize them at scale. Sometimes a 20-30 year old paper of only a few pages has the actual algorithm, and it's so well known in the field that it no longer stands out in more recent papers. Here's a few useful references: Good overview on big graphs: https://towardsdatascience.com/large-graph-visualization-too... A gallery of large…

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Social physics — mentioned by anigbrowl

Sat, 10 Dec 2022 07:18:48 GMT

Mathematics. Eugene Wigner - The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/papers/wigner.pdf Social Physics https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.01866.pdf Wir müssen wissen. Wir werden wissen.

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Social physics — HN submission

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 17:16:23 GMT

Social Physics

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