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Re: Network Science by Albert-László Barabási

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Post by xkcd-sucks » Sun, Dec 24, 2023, 5:28 PM UTC

porompompero wrote: post #14

xkcd-sucks wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having close personal connection to the lab for a few years - He is very successful, very charismatic, and a consummate politician above all. He holds tons of sway over Northeastern admin (lucky to have such a big fish in their little pond), and of course at his Hungarian university he's basically god. Certain policies simply do not apply to him. Anyway, in the lab there is very strong pressure for things to look rig…

Curious about what you meant by "his name is also used as verb/improper noun in our household i".

as in "it is very lazslo", "lazslo bs","i lazsloed the fuck out of it" etc. in reference to things such as NFTs, flashy demos built on nothing, marketing driven science, etc.

Re: Network Science by Albert-László Barabási

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Post by agumonkey » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 5:49 PM UTC

xkcd-sucks wrote: post #13

wslh wrote: post #9

There is criticism around ALB. See [1] and specific notes from other network scientists such as Bernardo Huberman (Andrew Huberman [2] father). [1] https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/the-network-non... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Huberman

Having close personal connection to the lab for a few years - He is very successful, very charismatic, and a consummate politician above all. He holds tons of sway over Northeastern admin (lucky to have such a big fish in their little pond), and of course at his Hungarian university he's basically god. Certain policies simply do not apply to him. Anyway, in the lab there is very strong pressure for things to look rig…

How do you define consumate politician ?

Re: Network Science by Albert-László Barabási

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Post by xwowsersx » Tue, Dec 26, 2023, 11:48 PM UTC

Anon84 wrote: post #17

xwowsersx wrote: post #11

I was just looking at and considering buying "A First Course in Network Science" by Menczer, Fortunato, and Davis. Has anyone gone through that? I'd love to hear a review.

It’s hard to say which book is better, as it depends a lot on what you’re looking for. Menczer’s book does a great job of introducing you to the basic concepts of network theory from a hands on perspective with Python code available through a companion GitHub repo. Barabasi’s book goes into a lot more depth and gives a bit more of an historical perspective of how things developed, but it is significantly more theoret…

Oh wow, hi Bruno (so much for Anon84 haha)! Thanks for the reply. Your book sounds much more like what I'm looking for. I did not know it has Python code to go along with; that's a huge plus for me. Your Substack looks great as well, looking forward to digging into it.