Oh, wow, who would have guessed that #recycling intricate, high-tech #solar #panels isn't as simple as tossing a soda can into a bin? Let's have an #electrical engineer explain the #complexity while we're still trying to figure out why there are two Canadas on the list.
https://theconversation.com/why-recycling-solar-panels-is-harder-than-you-might-think-an-electrical-engineer-explains-259115 #engineering #environmental #issues #solar #energy #HackerNews #ngated
Whenever there is a sticking point, ask, "are we staying true to the vision?".
— 37Signals
Efforts to reduce animal experiments are important and should be pursued. But despite progress in #AI, #organoids, and #InSilico models, I’m not convinced we’re there yet — especially in #neuroscience, where #complexity and systemic #context matter. However, I do think we should stay committed and aim for reduction by all available means. I recently came across this article, which gives a good overview of the current state of the field:
Well-designed components are easy to replace. Eventually, they will be replaced by ones that are not so easy to replace.
— Sustrik's Law
New paper!
How can we detect the presence of communities in networks with higher-order interactions? For instance, by maximizing hypermodularity! Also, this formulation will allow you to leverage tensor spectral methods to do it. Additionally, the paper also argues that the "overfitting" of modularity methods is actually just people applying them where they are not supposed to be used. And, as a byproduct, there is an explanation of why higher-order SVD works so well in classification tasks in machine learning. Oh, the code is available to use in your own projects (link in the first comment). And moreover, the code includes an efficient data structure for higher-order networks that is independent from the community detection method and that you can also use in your own work.
https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/58dr-wktc
"Thank you for calling Web Dev. How may we complicate things for you?"
The ever-increasing complexity of web development and the ever-increasing list of dependencies we end up including.
https://newslttrs.com/thank-you-for-calling-web-dev-how-may-we-complicate-things-for-you/
An evolving system increases its complexity unless work is done to reduce it.
— Meir Lehman
New paper!
If you want to assess the stability of the synchronization of a system of identical oscillators, you can use the Master Stability Function. However, what do you do in a real-world case, when the elements of the system are not exactly identical? We show how to extend the formalism and use it also when there are many-body interactions, such as in a simplicial complex.
https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/ml7b-r35h
This chart is fantastic, but probably too small to read here. (Page 9 of the PDF linked initially.)