Complex Multilayer Networks Lab
@comunelab.bsky.social
Research Group for Multilayer Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems: from cells to societies. Led by manlius.bsky.social at Dept. of Physics & Astronomy "Galileo Galilei", University of Padua
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TL;DR: Even the most advanced language models crumble on first-person false beliefs, showing sharp accuracy drops and revealing that their “understanding” of others’ minds is still shallow pattern mimicry, not genuine epistemic reasoning.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Language models cannot reliably distinguish belief from knowledge and fact - Nature Machine Intelligence
Suzgun et al. find that current large language models cannot reliably distinguish between belief, knowledge and fact, raising concerns for their use in healthcare, law and journalism, where such disti...
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:19 PM
TL;DR: Even the most advanced language models crumble on first-person false beliefs, showing sharp accuracy drops and revealing that their “understanding” of others’ minds is still shallow pattern mimicry, not genuine epistemic reasoning.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Cooperation isn’t weakness, it’s strategy.
Axelrod’s rules remind us: fairness, reciprocity and humility often outcompete envy and cleverness.
In complexity, often simplicity wins.
Axelrod’s rules remind us: fairness, reciprocity and humility often outcompete envy and cleverness.
In complexity, often simplicity wins.
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Cooperation isn’t weakness, it’s strategy.
Axelrod’s rules remind us: fairness, reciprocity and humility often outcompete envy and cleverness.
In complexity, often simplicity wins.
Axelrod’s rules remind us: fairness, reciprocity and humility often outcompete envy and cleverness.
In complexity, often simplicity wins.
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Phase transitions, bifurcations, thermal vents, exoplanets and their interactive maps, as well as pointers to a whole special issue just published in @royalsocietypublishing.org about origin of life.
With Spotify and Apple podcasts as usual.
What do you need more?
CC: @ricardsole.bsky.social
With Spotify and Apple podcasts as usual.
What do you need more?
CC: @ricardsole.bsky.social
When matter came alive: the physics of life’s emergence
Exploring the origins of life through the mathematical theory of transitions
manlius.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Phase transitions, bifurcations, thermal vents, exoplanets and their interactive maps, as well as pointers to a whole special issue just published in @royalsocietypublishing.org about origin of life.
With Spotify and Apple podcasts as usual.
What do you need more?
CC: @ricardsole.bsky.social
With Spotify and Apple podcasts as usual.
What do you need more?
CC: @ricardsole.bsky.social
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Understanding the process that favored the emergence of life is not just about looking backward to 🌎’s first dawn: it’s about learning how complexity itself begins and how it might arise again, elsewhere.
Life as a cascade of transitions?
#ComplexityThoughts
manlius.substack.com/p/when-matte...
Life as a cascade of transitions?
#ComplexityThoughts
manlius.substack.com/p/when-matte...
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Understanding the process that favored the emergence of life is not just about looking backward to 🌎’s first dawn: it’s about learning how complexity itself begins and how it might arise again, elsewhere.
Life as a cascade of transitions?
#ComplexityThoughts
manlius.substack.com/p/when-matte...
Life as a cascade of transitions?
#ComplexityThoughts
manlius.substack.com/p/when-matte...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Network Medicine is entering a new phase: one that demands we rethink how we study, model and ultimately treat complex diseases.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
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#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
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November 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Network Medicine is entering a new phase: one that demands we rethink how we study, model and ultimately treat complex diseases.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience #Medicine #MedSky 🧪🧬🌐
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A super-interesting new issue of #ComplexityThoughts out!
🧪🌐🧬🌍
🔗 Read: open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...
🎙️ As usual, it’s accompanied by a podcast episode where we explain complex results in a clear, accessible way, almost like “pop science” for complexity: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
🧪🌐🧬🌍
🔗 Read: open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...
🎙️ As usual, it’s accompanied by a podcast episode where we explain complex results in a clear, accessible way, almost like “pop science” for complexity: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
Complexity Thoughts: Issue #67
Unraveling complexity: building knowledge, one paper at a time
open.substack.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
A super-interesting new issue of #ComplexityThoughts out!
🧪🌐🧬🌍
🔗 Read: open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...
🎙️ As usual, it’s accompanied by a podcast episode where we explain complex results in a clear, accessible way, almost like “pop science” for complexity: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
🧪🌐🧬🌍
🔗 Read: open.substack.com/pub/manlius/...
🎙️ As usual, it’s accompanied by a podcast episode where we explain complex results in a clear, accessible way, almost like “pop science” for complexity: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
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📌 Save the Date!
The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.
Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com
The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.
Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
📌 Save the Date!
The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.
Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com
The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲.
Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science.
Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com
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Want to promote transparency and clarity in network research by helping develop 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 (𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃)?
Sign up to get involved here: tinyurl.com/help-with-GR...
▪️ All career stages welcome
▪️ All fields welcome
▪️ Be compensated for your time
Sign up to get involved here: tinyurl.com/help-with-GR...
▪️ All career stages welcome
▪️ All fields welcome
▪️ Be compensated for your time
GRAND Recruitment
Complete this short questionnaire to help develop Guidelines for Reporting About Network Data (GRAND).
tinyurl.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Want to promote transparency and clarity in network research by helping develop 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 (𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐃)?
Sign up to get involved here: tinyurl.com/help-with-GR...
▪️ All career stages welcome
▪️ All fields welcome
▪️ Be compensated for your time
Sign up to get involved here: tinyurl.com/help-with-GR...
▪️ All career stages welcome
▪️ All fields welcome
▪️ Be compensated for your time
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Nearly 4,000 y ago, Egyptians finished their pyramids
Meanwhile, across the ocean, termites in NE Brazil were building something even larger: a hidden empire of 200M mounds, over an area the size of UK 🌍🐜
Still active today, a masterpiece of non-human engineering!
🧪🌐 HT @ricardsole.bsky.social
Meanwhile, across the ocean, termites in NE Brazil were building something even larger: a hidden empire of 200M mounds, over an area the size of UK 🌍🐜
Still active today, a masterpiece of non-human engineering!
🧪🌐 HT @ricardsole.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Nearly 4,000 y ago, Egyptians finished their pyramids
Meanwhile, across the ocean, termites in NE Brazil were building something even larger: a hidden empire of 200M mounds, over an area the size of UK 🌍🐜
Still active today, a masterpiece of non-human engineering!
🧪🌐 HT @ricardsole.bsky.social
Meanwhile, across the ocean, termites in NE Brazil were building something even larger: a hidden empire of 200M mounds, over an area the size of UK 🌍🐜
Still active today, a masterpiece of non-human engineering!
🧪🌐 HT @ricardsole.bsky.social
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How dit life originate in our planet? How can we create it in the lab?Our @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue "Origins of Life: the possible and the actual", coedited with @sfiscience.bsky.social C Kempes and Susan Stepney is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... @manlius.bsky.social
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: Vol 380, No 1936
royalsocietypublishing.org
October 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
How dit life originate in our planet? How can we create it in the lab?Our @royalsocietypublishing.org Theme Issue "Origins of Life: the possible and the actual", coedited with @sfiscience.bsky.social C Kempes and Susan Stepney is out! royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/202... @manlius.bsky.social
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It is often argued that the origin of life must be related to "phase transitions"
This concept is often misused, or even abused.
In a new paper with @ricardsole.bsky.social we discuss which types of transitions might be involved and some relevant models.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
This concept is often misused, or even abused.
In a new paper with @ricardsole.bsky.social we discuss which types of transitions might be involved and some relevant models.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
Bifurcations and phase transitions in the origins of life | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The path towards the emergence of life in our biosphere involved several key events allowing for the persistence, reproduction and evolution of molecular systems. All these processes took place in a given environmental context and required both molecular ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
October 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
It is often argued that the origin of life must be related to "phase transitions"
This concept is often misused, or even abused.
In a new paper with @ricardsole.bsky.social we discuss which types of transitions might be involved and some relevant models.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
This concept is often misused, or even abused.
In a new paper with @ricardsole.bsky.social we discuss which types of transitions might be involved and some relevant models.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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Between rocky Earths and gas-rich Neptunes, there are worlds that should exist but don’t. Why?
New exoplanet surveys reveal how stellar radiation may strip planets bare, showing that our solar system isn’t the rule: maybe it’s the exception.
🧪🌐🪐
www.scientificamerican.com/article/exop...
New exoplanet surveys reveal how stellar radiation may strip planets bare, showing that our solar system isn’t the rule: maybe it’s the exception.
🧪🌐🪐
www.scientificamerican.com/article/exop...
October 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Between rocky Earths and gas-rich Neptunes, there are worlds that should exist but don’t. Why?
New exoplanet surveys reveal how stellar radiation may strip planets bare, showing that our solar system isn’t the rule: maybe it’s the exception.
🧪🌐🪐
www.scientificamerican.com/article/exop...
New exoplanet surveys reveal how stellar radiation may strip planets bare, showing that our solar system isn’t the rule: maybe it’s the exception.
🧪🌐🪐
www.scientificamerican.com/article/exop...
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Honored to receive the 2024 Outstanding Publication Award from the Intl Soc for Artificial Life @alife2025.bsky.social for our @royalsocietypublishing.org ublishing.org paper “Fundamental Constraints to the Logic of Living Systems” @sfiscience.bsky.social
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
October 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Honored to receive the 2024 Outstanding Publication Award from the Intl Soc for Artificial Life @alife2025.bsky.social for our @royalsocietypublishing.org ublishing.org paper “Fundamental Constraints to the Logic of Living Systems” @sfiscience.bsky.social
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
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Getting ready for a talk. Inspired by the brilliant drawings of @ricardsole.bsky.social, I tried one myself (with a little help from AI).
Did I pull it off? What does this image represent?
Did I pull it off? What does this image represent?
October 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Getting ready for a talk. Inspired by the brilliant drawings of @ricardsole.bsky.social, I tried one myself (with a little help from AI).
Did I pull it off? What does this image represent?
Did I pull it off? What does this image represent?
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📸 Nearly every dot in this James Webb image isn’t a star: it’s a galaxy, each with billions of stars and even more worlds.
And this? It’s just a tiny corner of the observable universe.
A short thread 🧵1/
And this? It’s just a tiny corner of the observable universe.
A short thread 🧵1/
October 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
📸 Nearly every dot in this James Webb image isn’t a star: it’s a galaxy, each with billions of stars and even more worlds.
And this? It’s just a tiny corner of the observable universe.
A short thread 🧵1/
And this? It’s just a tiny corner of the observable universe.
A short thread 🧵1/
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In the '30s of the past century, the Sicilian physicist Ettore Majorana wrote an article about the value of statistical laws in physics and in social sciences. A pioneering non-technical work.
I am wondering if successive ('40s-'50s) “sociophysics” papers are related.
arxiv.org/abs/0709.3537
I am wondering if successive ('40s-'50s) “sociophysics” papers are related.
arxiv.org/abs/0709.3537
L'articolo di Ettore Majorana su "Il valore delle Leggi Statistiche nella Fisica e nelle Scienze Sociali" (Ettore Majorana's article on "The value of Statistical Laws in Physics and in Social Sciences...
The mentioned article was written by Ettore Majorana, in a partially educational way, for a journal of Sociology; but he gave up publishing it (and threw it away). It appeared posthumous, thanks to Gi...
arxiv.org
October 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
In the '30s of the past century, the Sicilian physicist Ettore Majorana wrote an article about the value of statistical laws in physics and in social sciences. A pioneering non-technical work.
I am wondering if successive ('40s-'50s) “sociophysics” papers are related.
arxiv.org/abs/0709.3537
I am wondering if successive ('40s-'50s) “sociophysics” papers are related.
arxiv.org/abs/0709.3537
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“we might add “natural cooperation” as a third fundamental principle of evolution beside mutation and natural selection”
🧪 #ComplexSystems #Evolution
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
🧪 #ComplexSystems #Evolution
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
October 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“we might add “natural cooperation” as a third fundamental principle of evolution beside mutation and natural selection”
🧪 #ComplexSystems #Evolution
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
🧪 #ComplexSystems #Evolution
www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1...
Due update to the lab 📸
Hello world!
Hello world!
October 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Due update to the lab 📸
Hello world!
Hello world!
Welcome @valedand.bsky.social to BlueSky!
If you are interested in biological complexity, computational neuroscience and population dynamics (eg epidemics) click on the follow button 🧠🦠!
If you are interested in biological complexity, computational neuroscience and population dynamics (eg epidemics) click on the follow button 🧠🦠!
October 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Welcome @valedand.bsky.social to BlueSky!
If you are interested in biological complexity, computational neuroscience and population dynamics (eg epidemics) click on the follow button 🧠🦠!
If you are interested in biological complexity, computational neuroscience and population dynamics (eg epidemics) click on the follow button 🧠🦠!
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🚨 Thrilled to release the official repository of the @comunelab.bsky.social!
It centralizes access to decade-long research outputs, including 57 data sets and 22 code libraries.
A titanic effort: 28,000 lines of code
We hope to accelerate #openScience in #ComplexSystems
👉 github.com/CoMuNeLab
It centralizes access to decade-long research outputs, including 57 data sets and 22 code libraries.
A titanic effort: 28,000 lines of code
We hope to accelerate #openScience in #ComplexSystems
👉 github.com/CoMuNeLab
September 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🚨 Thrilled to release the official repository of the @comunelab.bsky.social!
It centralizes access to decade-long research outputs, including 57 data sets and 22 code libraries.
A titanic effort: 28,000 lines of code
We hope to accelerate #openScience in #ComplexSystems
👉 github.com/CoMuNeLab
It centralizes access to decade-long research outputs, including 57 data sets and 22 code libraries.
A titanic effort: 28,000 lines of code
We hope to accelerate #openScience in #ComplexSystems
👉 github.com/CoMuNeLab
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Physical devices operating out of equilibrium are affected by thermal fluctuations, limiting their operational precision
Coherent quantum dynamics can surpass the traditional thermodynamic precision limits, guiding development of future high-precision quantum devices
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Coherent quantum dynamics can surpass the traditional thermodynamic precision limits, guiding development of future high-precision quantum devices
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Precision is not limited by the second law of thermodynamics - Nature Physics
Clock precision is thought to be fundamentally limited by entropy production in out-of-equilibrium systems. A theoretical work now introduces a quantum clock design where precision grows exponentially...
www.nature.com
June 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Physical devices operating out of equilibrium are affected by thermal fluctuations, limiting their operational precision
Coherent quantum dynamics can surpass the traditional thermodynamic precision limits, guiding development of future high-precision quantum devices
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Coherent quantum dynamics can surpass the traditional thermodynamic precision limits, guiding development of future high-precision quantum devices
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨 A new work from an international collaboration with the great @yuetinghan.bsky.social, Paolo Turrini, Marya Bazzi, @giuliandr.bsky.social & Eugenia Polizzi
Measuring the co-evolution of online engagement with
(mis)information and its visibility at scale
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2506.06106
Short 🧵 1/
Measuring the co-evolution of online engagement with
(mis)information and its visibility at scale
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2506.06106
Short 🧵 1/
June 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
🚨 A new work from an international collaboration with the great @yuetinghan.bsky.social, Paolo Turrini, Marya Bazzi, @giuliandr.bsky.social & Eugenia Polizzi
Measuring the co-evolution of online engagement with
(mis)information and its visibility at scale
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2506.06106
Short 🧵 1/
Measuring the co-evolution of online engagement with
(mis)information and its visibility at scale
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2506.06106
Short 🧵 1/
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🚨 New paper from @comunelab.bsky.social !
We review the latent geometry emerging from network-driven processes, with an eye to network functionality and applications from biological systems to infrastructures.
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2506.09616
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience 🧪🌐
Short 🧵 1/
We review the latent geometry emerging from network-driven processes, with an eye to network functionality and applications from biological systems to infrastructures.
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2506.09616
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience 🧪🌐
Short 🧵 1/
June 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🚨 New paper from @comunelab.bsky.social !
We review the latent geometry emerging from network-driven processes, with an eye to network functionality and applications from biological systems to infrastructures.
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2506.09616
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience 🧪🌐
Short 🧵 1/
We review the latent geometry emerging from network-driven processes, with an eye to network functionality and applications from biological systems to infrastructures.
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2506.09616
#ComplexSystems #NetworkScience 🧪🌐
Short 🧵 1/
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It was a pleasure to lecture at the @netsciconf.bsky.social for an interested & interactive audience.
What's a model? Why do we model? Is our network a network? Can we restore broken and forgotten links?
I will post on #ComplexityThoughts about this lecture, which I have enjoyed to prepare.
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What's a model? Why do we model? Is our network a network? Can we restore broken and forgotten links?
I will post on #ComplexityThoughts about this lecture, which I have enjoyed to prepare.
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June 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It was a pleasure to lecture at the @netsciconf.bsky.social for an interested & interactive audience.
What's a model? Why do we model? Is our network a network? Can we restore broken and forgotten links?
I will post on #ComplexityThoughts about this lecture, which I have enjoyed to prepare.
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What's a model? Why do we model? Is our network a network? Can we restore broken and forgotten links?
I will post on #ComplexityThoughts about this lecture, which I have enjoyed to prepare.
🧵 1/