After all this time, my free textbook on qualitative dynamics and chaos is finally done! #math#dynamics
Access it on my webpage (https://t.co/Yj3trwNSQp) or on Google Books/Play (https://t.co/39ZLycssC8). (🧵, 1/7)
So we're about to live with fewer and fewer humanists in the workforce.
Have there been studies of the effects of this on society?
How much of those ideas get shifted into stem curriculum?
Has anyone come up with a way to quantity all this?
CSCS Professor Mark Newman (who also plays piano in his spare time) has a new book out about the science of music - musical instruments, sound, acoustics, hearing, and why music works the way it does, check it out: https://t.co/CQx7Y8pUtd @umichlsa@UmichPhysics#scienceofmusic
CSCS affil. fac. Robert Ziff w/WTrump CKnecht GHuber releases "Riddles of the sphinx tilings" Sphinx-shaped polygons can be tiled by identical smaller sphinx in both quasi-crystal and random forms #entropyoftilings#exactenumeration#MonteCarlomethod https://t.co/PEilkE6Okn
🚨 Is novel research worth doing?🚨
There are serious concerns about slowdown in innovation. Are institutions to blame? In science, does peer review discourage novel work?
Paper with @haoopeng@mrblasco and
@klakhani finds the opposite!
https://t.co/7JunAYqFDt
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In case anyone else is still trying to use Twitter for work, I will be looking for 1-2 PhD students this cycle in social/ethical NLP, more information here: https://t.co/pxYyc2pDgN
And in case this site is going down, I'm now also @[email protected]
Short stories and novellas revolve around a single sequence of events, while novels contain more subplots. Can we see this quantitatively by examining word usage? We look at power and danger time series of Project Gutenberg books to find out. 1/🧵
https://t.co/vhEgEAlp6V
Excited to share our #UIST2022 paper introducing FeedLens, a novel system that repurposes people’s research paper feeds on Semantic Scholar as lenses. Without any additional training, these lenses show relevance for all types of related entities, like authors and institutions. 🧵
The Ancient Greeks had two words for time:
1. Chronos = sequential, quantitative time
2. Kairos = fluctuating, qualitative time
Here's why you need to understand kairos...
15 bookmark-worthy tools for researchers that cost you nothing and will save you time (& nerves) when researching, writing and publishing.
A thread. 🧵
#AcademicTwitter#AcademicChatter
It's never too early to talk about civics!
Civic education can be a game changer but it needs to be designed well in a way that allows kids to take action + make easy connections to their everyday life.
"OpenAlex: A fully-open index of scholarly works, authors, venues, institutions, and concepts", based on @Wikidata IDs and items.
(Priem et al, 2022)
paper: https://t.co/Bw2tS9Ew49
tool: https://t.co/qPIyVMKoaz
News out of Asia is insane today. 🇵🇭 36 years after People Power in the Philippines, the son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos is set to be the next president. Yet it's people power in 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka as PM Rajapaksa steps down and they've literally burned his house down. 🔥