#covid19 Modeling the impact of testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second waves of COVID-19 Video of my talk “Modeling the impact of testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second waves of COVID-19” at the Cycles of Seminars Covid-19 Sponsored by MexSAIM in UNAM, Mexico, September 15, 2020.
#Filter Bubble #Politics La burbuja política o cómo las redes multiplican la colisión entre quienes piensan distinto Article in the spanish newspaper La Vanguardia about how social media is increasing polarization and radicalization in political opinion. With a quote to my opinion on this. La burbuja política o cómo las redes multiplican la colisión entre quienes piensan distinto Para Esteban Moro, investigador del Instituto de Tecnología de Massachusetts (MIT) y de la Universidad Carlos III, este trabajo “confirma lo que ya sabíamos acerca del efecto de partidismo o cámaras de eco. ...
Preferential attachment: be first Preferential attachment is a key process governing the dynamics of many economic, social and biological process. It is the “The rich get richer” mechanism by which a quantity is distributed among individuals according to how much they already have. It also happens in social networks and the ones that have more social connectivity (the “hubs”) receive more new connections than the poorly connected. In a famous paper, Laszlo Barabási and Reka Albert encoded this mechanics in the so called Barabasi-Albert model to generate random scale free-networks. ...