Jorge A. Laval

Migrating to bluesky

Wow youtu.be/2p_Hlm6aCok?si…

a #notebooklm deep-dive podcast of this paper. love it! notebooklm.google.com/notebook/c7758…

Here is the third episode of the #TFTC podcast. @LudoLeclercq and Nikolas Geroliminis talk about network-level traffic flow, the importance of open data, and many other topics. Watch now on YouTube: youtu.be/BAGKOd9yI1w

The @usnews national rankings are in. Georgia Tech is: No. 9 public university and No. 33 overall. Every engineering programs rank in the Top 4. No. 4 overall engineering school and No. 1 civil engineering program. The Scheller College of Business is No. 18 overall for undergraduate programs and has several individual programs in the Top 10. Three College of Computing programs ranked in the Top 5 — AI, cybersecurity, and software engineering. Georgia Tech is No. 2 in the Most Innovative category, No. 3 for co-ops and internships, and No. 8 for undergraduate research. #WeCanDoThat | b.gatech.edu/3zHfELs

"The researchers advocate for homework policies prioritizing regular, short-duration assignments to optimize student engagement and academic success without causing undue stress." phys.org/news/2024-09-r…

New John Baez just dropped. A 129 pages text on 'what is entropy' and it's for free, big homie.

For only the second time in our 179-year history, the editors of Scientific American are endorsing a candidate for president. That person is @KamalaHarris. | Editorial bit.ly/4daH36q

Loving my traffic flow surface wallpaper

Someone went through Paul Erdos' FBI files and found that all suspicious activities was really just him doing math muckrock.com/news/archives/…

The heat engine + canonical ensemble are analyzed as transportation problems Entropy has units of time and gives the network marginal cost Second law of thermo -> travel times tend to increase in congestion The # microstates is ~ constant, but Boltzmann's constant is not!

The preprint is out! Thanks to my co-authors @GaryoungLee, Aryaman Jha, Kurt Wiesenfeld. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Complexity science could transform 21st-century research. Here’s how. bigthink.com/13-8/complexit…

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You can try the simulation online and download the code here modelingcommons.org/browse/one_mod…

#Distribution #network finding. Factory on top delivers packages to residences at the bottom. What is the most efficient network? #logistics @netlogo

"Simple model to show how you can use NetLogo and GIS data to find a shortest path between two locations." youtu.be/NGNCenhcUu4?si…

Physics

Academic publisher Elsevier's profit margin compared to Apple, Google, and Microsoft Apple: 28% Google: 25% Microsoft: 34% Elsevier: 37% with a revenue of $3.9 billion. Elsevier's payment to academic authors and reviewers: $0