The way we perceive reality is a function of how we slice and dice the physical world, argues theoretical physicist Alfredo Metere.

Our lab is particularly interested in scientific discovery, knowledge creation, mental generativity, synergistic intellectual cooperation and, as part of that, cases where we see an increase in the…

Recently I’ve started using PyMC3 for Bayesian modelling, and it’s an amazing piece of software! The API only exposes as much of heavy machinery of MCMC as you need — by which I mean, just the pm.sample() method (a.k.a., as Thomas Wiecki puts it, the Magic…

Little is known about the genetic determinants of social isolation and loneliness despite their well-established importance for health. Here, using multi-trait GWAS, Day et al. identify 15 genomic loci for loneliness and further show a bidirectional causal…

I’ve been a Product Manager at Google for almost ten years. I’ve worked for Google on Search, Ads and YouTube, across Zurich, London and…

The strengths and limitations of peer review have long been documented. The concept of ergodicity from statistical physics may shine a new light on them.

Patterns and surprises in rich but noisy network data - There has in recent years been a large amount of research interest in networks such as the Internet, the World Wide Web, citation networks, social networks, and biological networks such as metabolic…

This tutorial analyzes voice onset time (VOT) data from Dongbei (Northeastern) Mandarin Chinese and North American English to demonstrate how Bayesian linear mixed models can be fit using the programming language Stan via the R package brms. Through this…

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Competing contagion processes: Complex contagion triggered by simple contagion