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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability)
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🛑 Microsoft released an emergency update to Windows 10, 8.1, and 7 SP1 to address the vulnerability on January 3, 2018, as well as Windows Server. These patches are known to cause conflicts with specific third-party antivirus software that use unsupported kernel calls;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerability)

IBM Research - Zurich, Computational systems biology
https://www.zurich.ibm.com/compsysbio/

📚 https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/complexity

💡 http://adamilab.blogspot.jp/2016/12/can-life-emerge-spontaneously.html?m=1

💻 🧠 https://www.quantamagazine.org/mapping-the-brain-to-build-better-machines-20160406/

Complexity Matters: A Re-Introduction to Complexity | Denise Easton | LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/complexity-matters-re-introduction-denise-easton

📖 Phase Transitions and Collective Phenomena Lecture Notes
Prof Ben Simons

http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bds10/phase.html

Arthur "Tree" Cayley (RB, 2018). 1024 vertices. 1023 edges. Connected and acylic. https://t.co/p2MUGW5Wdz

🔸 دکتر رامین گلستانیان به عنوان مدیر علمی به انستیتو ماکس پلانک پیوست

http://www.psi.ir/news2_fa.asp?id=2381

آقای دکتر رامین گلستانیان، فیزیکدان و دانش‌آموخته دانشگاه‌های صنعتی شریف و تحصیلات تکمیلی زنجان به عنوان دایراکتور (مدیر علمی)‌ به پژوهشگاه دینامیک و خود‌سامان‌دهی ماکس پلانک در شهر گوتینگن آلمان پیوست. دکتر گلستانیان کارشناسی فیزیک خود را از دانشگاه صنعتی شریف و کارشناسی ارشد و دکتری خود را از دانشگاه تحصیلات تکمیلی زنجان گرفت. او که در کارنامه خود ریاست دانشکده فیزیک دانشگاه تحصیلات تکمیلی زنجان و استادی دانشگاه آکسفورد را دارد، از ابتدای سال جاری مسیحی، به پژوهشگاه ماکس پلانک در شهر گوتینگن پیوست تا بخشی را با عنوان فیزیک مواد زنده، در آن پژوهشگاه راه‌اندازی و هدایت کند.

goo.gl/xW9MvU

Lorenz Attractor Simulation

جلسه دفاع دکتری
امیرحسین شیرازی
شنبه ۲۳ دی‌ماه، ساعت ۱۶، سالن ابن‌هیثم دانشکده فیزیک دانشگاه شهیدبهشتی

Tetris-like falling sticky disks

https://mathoverflow.net/questions/101309/tetris-like-falling-sticky-disks

🔖 Scale-free networks are rare

Anna D. Broido, Aaron Clauset

🔗 arxiv.org/pdf/1801.03400.pdf

📌 ABSTRACT
A central claim in modern network science is that real-world networks are typically "scale free," meaning that the fraction of nodes with degree k follows a power law, decaying like k−α, often with 2<α<3. However, empirical evidence for this belief derives from a relatively small number of real-world networks. We test the universality of scale-free structure by applying state-of-the-art statistical tools to a large corpus of nearly 1000 network data sets drawn from social, biological, technological, and informational sources. We fit the power-law model to each degree distribution, test its statistical plausibility, and compare it via a likelihood ratio test to alternative, non-scale-free models, e.g., the log-normal. Across domains, we find that scale-free networks are rare, with only 4% exhibiting the strongest-possible evidence of scale-free structure and 52% exhibiting the weakest-possible evidence. Furthermore, evidence of scale-free structure is not uniformly distributed across sources: social networks are at best weakly scale free, while a handful of technological and biological networks can be called strongly scale free. These results undermine the universality of scale-free networks and reveal that real-world networks exhibit a rich structural diversity that will likely require new ideas and mechanisms to explain.

🔷 https://medium.com/@junp01/an-introduction-to-complexity-theory-3c20695725f8