I wrote a blog post about the often stated but never explained assumption that communities in graphs should always be connected. This “connected cluster axiom” is inconsistent with statistical significance and null models that underlie the most widely employed methods […]

I wrote a blog post about the often stated but never explained assumption that communities in graphs should always be connected. This “connected cluster axiom” is inconsistent with statistical significance and null models that underlie the most widely employed methods […]

I've been porting some code from C++17 to C++23. Many nice improvements in the language! A side note: Clang is so much worse than GCC in almost everything, from compilation times, runtime performance, to C++23 coverage... Staggering! GCC alone is a good reason to dump MacOS for GNU/Linux […]

New paper on ArXiv: “Uncertainty quantification and posterior sampling for network reconstruction” TL;DR; We present an efficient method to sample the entire ensemble of possible network reconstructions that are compatible with an indirect observation, e […] [Original post on social.skewed.de]

Happy that this just came out on PRX: “Network Reconstruction via the Minimum Description Length Principle” https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.15.011065 You can find the previous explainer thread here: https://social.skewed.de/@tiago/112377014076169811 And the code here: […]

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 IT:U is hiring 5 professors (open rank) in Data Science, very broadly defined! Focuses include (among others): 1. Theoretical Foundations of Data Science 2. Data Science in Biological Systems 3. Data Science in Human Mobility […]

In a space of a couple of weeks my number of followers in Bluesky overtook the number on mastodon — starting from about 200 or so. All academics are there. You post something there, people react. Here it's either silence or zealot, humorless bickering. The result of an engineered […]

Some hard truths from @pluralistic: https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-11-02-ulysses-pact-tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast-b2f89bb5b4d8 It misses only one fact: Mastodon was born shitified! I still believe (maybe naively) that the free software principles are strong and […]

The way that this set up at Bluesky is obviously more intuitive, user friendly, and conducive to self-organization. It's built in the interface and everyone can curate their own list and share it. It's far better than what we have in the fediverse. These directories do not compare to starter […]

Mastodon developers should reflect why this is happening over at Bluesky and not over here... Despite the initial advantage that Mastodon had. They won't reflect or care enough to look past their ideological zeal. But they really should […]

Reminder that we've got a 3-year post-doc position open at the @invcomplexity, IT:U Linz, Austria, on complex systems and network science! The deadline is Nov 30. Please get in contact if you have any questions about the position. More information at: skewed.de/lab/call.html #complexsystems […]

Specially good issue! Recommended! https://mathstodon.xyz/users/manlius/statuses/113448242387120699

Reminder that we've got a 3-year post-doc position open at the @invcomplexity lab at IT:U, Linz, Austria! The deadline is Nov 30. Please get in contact if you have any questions about the position. https://social.skewed.de/users/tiago/statuses/113312253289238014

Data science papers about political polarization, gender inequality, academic careers, social media, etc: too many to count. Data science papers about the most well documented genocide in history: zero. https://forensic-architecture.org/investigation/a-cartography-of-genocide

🚨Job alert!🚨 Come join us at the Inverse Complexity Lab! @invcomplexity We’re hiring a post-doctoral researcher to join our group at IT:U, Linz, Austria. https://skewed.de/lab/call.html Deadline is 30 Nov 2024. We are looking for an early-stage or […] [Original post on social.skewed.de]

Some people still seem to believe that the so-called “no free lunch” theorem implies that all community detection methods are equivalent. This isn't true in the slightest—neither in practice nor in theory. https://skewed.de/lab/posts/free-lunch/

Periodic reminder that finding communities in networks using modularity maximization is not a serious methodology. https://skewed.de/lab/posts/modularity-harmful/

I'm about to test the repairability of a #Framework 13" laptop. This is an unplanned test... wish me luck! The bad news of dropping it is tempered by the good news the screen is fine, the keyboard is fine. It seems the motherboard is fine but the fingerprint […] [Original post on mastodon.me.uk]

I used to defend CUPS, and usually didn't have much problems using it. But damn if this thing isn't completely rotten from the inside. https://www.evilsocket.net/2024/09/26/Attacking-UNIX-systems-via-CUPS-Part-I/?s=09

We're living in a cyberpunk reality, but a stupider, B-movie variety.

I'm happy to announce that as of next week I'm taking up a new position as full professor at IT:U (https://it-u.at)! IT:U is a brand new public university in Linz, Austria 🇦🇹, that focuses on interdisciplinarity. At IT:U I'll be heading the “Inverse Complexity Lab” (https://skewed.de/tiago) […]

I'm happy to announce that as of next week I'm taking up a new position as full professor at IT:U (https://it-u.at)! IT:U is a brand new public university in Linz, Austria 🇦🇹, that focuses on interdisciplinarity. At IT:U I'll be heading the “Inverse Complexity Lab” (https://skewed.de/tiago) […]

“Text as Data” From March 31 to April 5, 2025, a week-long DH Spring School in Potsdam, Germany will focus on text-based digital humanities for students and early-career scholars. Learn computational methods like topic modeling, stylometry, and network analysis. Apply by Nov 30, 2024 […]

https://mastodon.social/@freakonometrics/113131801747298682 I'm not sure it's fair to call the coin “fair” in this case.

TIL that the FBI **recommends** the use of ad blockers ad means of crime prevention! https://www.ic3.gov/Media/Y2022/PSA221221 Hard to imagine how people can live without one.

Quite useful! <https://social.multiverset.net/users/clemens/statuses/113096646844469594>

Quite useful: https://social.multiverset.net/@clemens/113096646844469594

If it's good enough for OpenAI, it's good enough for us. <https://hails.org/users/hailey/statuses/113081760374774478>

Democracy in the US means a choice between a candidate endorsed by Dick Cheney and Donald Trump.

Bothered that a government can simply block you from accessing a website? Besides using VPN, if the block is just DNS-based (as it often is), a *super simple* solution is just to use DNS-over-HTTPS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_HTTPS This prevents feeble censorship attempts *and* […]

A Brazilian supreme court judge has single-handedly ordered google and apple to remove **all** VPN apps from their stores in Brazil, including those already installed in user devices. This is the main danger of centralized app stores: **Others control your device.** […]

More uplifting news. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/microplastics-brain-pollution-health

Important tip regarding avoiding proprietary lock-in with Anaconda! TL;DR—Always use miniforge: https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge <https://hachyderm.io/users/minrk/statuses/113000412412095564>

I just enabled bidirectional bridging from Mastodon to @bsky.app via @ap.brid.gy. Let's see how that goes.

I just enabled bidirectional bridging from @Mastodon to Bluesky via @bsky.brid.gy . Let's see how that goes.