Hi! New preprint I wanted to share: arxiv.org/abs/2403.13998. My co-authors (Gokul Nair, Steven Strogatz, and Francesca Parise) and I use graphons to study synchronization in random networks of identical phase oscillators. Let me know what you think?!

What a thrill to listen to Janna Levin interview Lenny Susskind about the black hole information paradox, his 'black hole war' with Stephen Hawking, holography and emergent space-time on the THE JOY OF WHY: quantamagazine.org/joy

Read the transcript: quantamagazine.org/can-informatio…

Listen in as Lenny Susskind describes the black hole wars and how he battled Stephen Hawking to make the world safe for Quantum Mechanics on The Joy of Why | Quanta Magazine ⁦Quanta Magazine⁩ ⁦PRX⁩ ⁦Steven Strogatz⁩ quantamagazine.org/can-informatio…

Ben Orlin Thanks so much, Ben Orlin! Really appreciate the shout-out!

Yes, we are looking for teachers, parents, kids, gamers -- really anyone -- to sign-up to play-test pre-release versions of the game.

Welcome one and all!

baugarten.game

Got an email a few months back from the creators of this mathy civilization-building game. Really enjoyed play-testing it for them; it's a thoughtful team that takes feedback well.

Now they're opening it up to more play-testers:

baugarten.game

For anyone seeing the baseless accusations against me (& the sickening abuse), please read the linked statement. This is a politically motivated attack on the Cal Math Fwork, following the same playbook as recent DEI attacks. Please share this widely 🙏: tinyurl.com/jbdefense

Juris Šleiers Interesanti, ka pirms pāris mēnešiem Steven Strogatz podkāstā uz lapsu un ezi atsaucās arī viens no mūsdienu izcilākajiem matemātiķiem Terence Tao
quantamagazine.org/what-makes-for…

The next chapter about transformers is up on YouTube, digging into the attention mechanism: youtu.be/eMlx5fFNoYc

The model works with vectors representing tokens (think words), and this is the mechanism that allows those vectors to take in meaning from context.

100 questions for mathematicians to argue about. Is 0 a natural number? How do you pronounce LaTeX? Pi or tau? And so on. cims.nyu.edu/~tjl8195/surve…

Received this note today:

🌟Studying or teaching Complex Analysis?

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Share the ❤️love of mathematics with your friends/colleagues.

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Hi Steven Strogatz, I must have hugged you if you have been around me. Reading this book was magical, today there is nothing in this world that will stop me from solving any problem.

Thank You 🙏🙏🙏

Millions of locusts march in lockstep as though a choreographed swarm. Instead, the terrifying spectacle is a cannibalistic parade of predator and prey. Fascinating episode with Steven Strogatz at the mic and Iain Couzin listen.quantamagazine.org/jow-305-s from Quanta Magazine PRX

I have a new video!

How Einstein Started a Revolution with 4,000 Year Old Math
youtu.be/32zg2FGX4cA

Feat. Alex Kontorovich and inspired by a 2015 article by Steven Strogatz

Would you choose travel by teleportation? We can quantum teleport a molecule. Destroy it here, recreate it there. Listen in as Caltech professor John Preskill explains on The Joy of Why Quanta Magazine PRX

When you work well with someone, you might say you’re “on the same wavelength.” A growing body of research shows that this is literally true, and that neural synchrony comes with a handful of benefits. Marta Zaraska reports: quantamagazine.org/the-social-ben…

In our new JOY OF WHY episode, evolutionary ecologist Iain Couzin explains to Steven Strogatz why locusts march in unison: When food is scarce, they want to eat each other.

Listen and subscribe: quantamagazine.org/joy

Read the transcript:
quantamagazine.org/how-is-flockin…

2002 economic sciences laureate Daniel Kahneman has passed away aged 90.

He was awarded the prize for integrating insights from psychology into economics, especially human judgement and decision-making under uncertainty.

Learn about his life and work: bit.ly/2NTewKs

Birds flock. Locusts swarm. Fish school. Hear host Steven Strogatz (Steven Strogatz) interview the evolutionary ecologist Iain Couzin (@icouzin) about how and why animals exhibit collective behaviors. listen.quantamagazine.org/jow-305-s

Or read the transcript:
quantamagazine.org/how-is-flockin…

There is less than 1 week left to apply for our SciComm Excellence, which recognize excellent science communicators, science journalists, and researchers like Britt Wray, PhD.

Learn more and apply: nationalacademies.org/awards/excelle… #SciComm #researchers #earlycareer