I still get a bit confused by the names we use for our news feed. Sorting Trends have direction. Other measures just have magnitude. If we’re talking about clicks then… What’s popular = click “distance” = total number of clicks What’s hot = click speed = number of clicks per minute What’s trending = click…… Continue reading News feed: what’s in a name?
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The promise of Social Physics
“The social physics that is emerging brings together branches of economics, sociology, and psychology. Along with network complexity, decision, and ecology sciences and fuses them together using big data. By creating social systems that look beyond aggregates such as markets, classes and parties, and instead examining the detailed patterns of idea exchanges, I show how…… Continue reading The promise of Social Physics
The Signal and the Noise
“… Still, as the 9/11 Commission deduced, the most important source of failure in advance of the attacks was our lack of our imagination. When we are making predictions, we need a balance between curiosity and skepticism. They can be compatible. The more eagerly we commit to scrutinizing and testing our theories the more readily…… Continue reading The Signal and the Noise
Why we should all do less, better
The world has changed. As it grows increasingly complex we need a new perspective. Less, not more, is the answer when it comes to health, education, climate change, poverty and much more.