proposed explanation for how trying to improve traffic flow actually has the reverse effect

Secondary control could prevent disruption caused by adding new transmission lines

Blockchain is a technological innovation that is likely to disrupt not just our financial markets and institutions but will have significant implications for most businesses and industries. Here we provide a simple explanation of what blockchain is and how…

In this post I would like to share one of the most surprising, remarkable, and beautiful results in the study of discrete dynamical systems. It relates to an unusual ordering of the positive intege…

This is the 5th post of blog post series ‘Probability & Statistics for Data Science’, this post covers these topics related to Bayesian…

The Open Science movement champions transparency, but how much and how quickly is a matter of dispute

Over the past two years, my scientific computing toolbox been steadily homogenizing. Around 2010 or 2011, my toolbox looked something like this: Ruby for text processing and miscellaneous noscripting…

Teaching page of Shervine Amidi, Graduate Student at Stanford University.

Studying the structure of existing friendships in your community can help you forge the best connections when forming a new circle of friends.

The other day, four Québécois gentlemen put out an arxiv preprint about one of my favorite topics*—algorithms for network epidemiology. In this blog post, I will try to convince you to: (1) Read th…

Companion website for KDD’18 Hands-On Tutorial on Higher-Order Data Analytics for Temporal Network Data

Quanta’s In Theory video series returns with an exploration of a mysterious mathematical pattern found throughout nature.