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244. An efficient local method for community detection in large networks
This is a guest blog post by Symeon Papadopoulos (MKLab, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece) who is going to determine whether effective community exist in the complex network of NEQNET readers Dmitry. I have been kindly given the opportunity by Dmitry to provide an overview of the problem of community detection in networks and discuss [...]
243. Turbulence: brief introduction into phenomenon
About a week ago I have listed top ten open problems in physics. If you say A, you are naturally supposed to say B (especially, if readers ask you ), so, I guess, I will have to discuss each problem from the list in more details. I would like to start with the problem N3 [...]
242. Video of the day: George Smoot on design of the Universe
George Smoot, Nobel Prize 2006 winner, was invited to give a 20-minute talk on cosmology at TED. Thanks to @kusior.
241. Twitter updates for 2009-02-08
How your brain figures out that God exists: http://twurl.nl/ysq64k Drexler on nanosystems: http://tinyurl.com/byeojf What if we will run out of gas? a talk by Goodstein (Caltech) in Perimeter Inst.: http://pirsa.org/09020006/ Which part of the brain the memory is stored in? http://jijr.com/m4M Nature Nanotechnology on power of proteins: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2008.422 Holographic quantum liquid: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.110…..102.051602 Shorting neurons with [...]
240. On credit market debt
According to our tradition, no science discussions are allowed on Sunday (a gentleman has to be able to find fun beyond the area of his expertise), except maybe video of the day. So, I decided to revive the old topic – global financial crisis – and continue the discussion from where we stopped last time. [...]
239. Susskind’s lectures on general relativity
A most natural generalization of the lectures posted yesterday and on Friday
238. Twitter updates for 2009-02-07
New metallic carbon crystal: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.110…..102.055703 #prl #carbon # Computational power of correlations: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.110…..102.050502 #quantum # Quantum fluctuations in small lasers: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.110…..102.053902 #prl #laser # It seems that Senate is going to cut the funding of NSF: http://short.to/rem #nsf # It is pretty clear to me that the recent NSF porno story was a black PR [...]
236. Video of the day: Susskind’s lectures on special relativity 5 – 8
Continuation of the lectures posted yesterday.
235. Twitter updates for 2009-02-06
Singularity University – overview: http://singularityu.org/overview/ #transhumanism # Mini-course on Mach’s principle: http://pirsa.org/09020029/ #mach PI does become a Theoretical Institute for Theology. # How to evaluate lab work: http://is.gd/itYf #science # Looking for dark matter in wrong places: http://short.to/r9t #cosmology #darkmatter # Liouville theory in the infrared: http://twurl.nl/3visr0 #string theory # Simple introduction to quantum groups: [...]