Happy to see this community growing. 🎉 Hoping to see even more #networkscience#complexsystems posts here in the future.
Other academics: do you ever sneak easter eggs into your published papers? (particular words, phrasings, things in images or plots, references, etc.) If so, what are some of your personal favorites? (I don't do it with every paper, but gosh, it's a fun part of being a professional scientist!)
"The practical risks of AI are not that they become super capable thinking machines. It is building complex systems around machines we falsely assume are capable of greater discernment and logic than they possess."
Last spring, Washington state passed a bill banning commercial octopus farming. Today, we (myself and 99 others, led by Jennifer Jacquet, Becca Franks, Peter Godfrey-Smith, and Walter Sanchez-Suarez) have a letter in Science supporting the US OCTOPUS Act, which would do the same nationwide.
Zotero 7 just dropped. I've been using the beta for several months and it's absolutely fantastic. And it restores an early feature of Zotero that went missing over a decade ago: the ability to annotate snapshots of web pages and add those annotations to your notes.
Congrats!
Good news everyone! A new version of graph-tool is just out! graph-tool.skewed.de graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N
Internet and Society: The Trans-Atlantic Research Future. Coming to London, May 10. Hope you can join us!
Registration fees are now up on the website. Take a look, and while you're there, why not submit an abstract too? Visit ccs24.cssociety.org/registration/#CCS24