#Fluid #Stochastic Differential Equation #Simulation Spreading of Viscous Fluid Drops on a Solid Substrate Assisted by Thermal Fluctuations Authors: Benny Davidovitch, Esteban Moro, and Howard A. Stone Journal: Physical Review Letters 95, 244505 (2005). LINK ...
#brownian motion #diffusion #humans Humans are superdiffusive When tea is poured in a cup of hot water, we observe a phenomenon called diffusion: in the end particles of tea spread evenly throughout the mass of water and we enjoy our cup of tea. Diffusion occurs … ...
#causality #correlation #flying spaghetti monster Cum hoc ergo propter hoc Or… Correlation implies causality. This is a logical fallacy. Keep this in mind when analyzing data. There are numerous cases of how people use this logical fallacy nowadays (most typically in … ...
#curiosity #glaciers Meet the glaciers I have been on holidays during the last two weeks visiting Argentina. The picture above was taken on top of the Perito Moreno glacier, which is amazing. Most glaciers we found where blueish, … ...
#curiosity Folding paper You can’t fold a paper more than seven or eight times. Don’t believe me? Then try it. Thinner paper? Longer paper? It doesn’t matter; you just can’t do it. I used to play this game with my friends … ...
#email #marketing #response rate Why I didn’t answer your email In a recent Nature article, Albert-Lászlo Barabási and João Gama Oliveira, have found the perfect excuse for lazy people not answering some emails in their inbox: they analyzed the time response of … ...
#bibliometrics #h-index A number to rank them all UCSD physicist Jorge E. Hirsch has propose a quick-and-dirty way to measure quality of academic scientist’s output. His method is explained and studied in a paper to be published in the November 15 … ...
#Stochastic Differential Equation #Simulation #Ito #Finance #Stock Market Boundary preserving semi-analytical numerical algorithms for stochastic differential equations Authors: Esteban Moro and Henri Schurz Journal: SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing, Volume 29 Issue 4, Pages 1525-1549 (2007). LINK | arXiv ...
#Fisher #Front #Simulation #Stochastic #Stochastic Differential Equation Numerical schemes for continuum models of reaction-diffusion systems subject to internal noise Authors: Esteban Moro Journal: Physical Review E (Rapid Communication) 70, 045102 (2004). LINK | arXiv ...
#Agents #Game Theory #Stock Market The Minority Game: an introductory guide Authors: Esteban Moro Book: Advances in Condensed Matter and __Statistical Physics, _E. Korutcheva and R. Cuerno eds. (Nova Science Publishers, New York 2004). LINK | arXiv ...
