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Author Archives: Tim Hulshof

Filming a fruit fly’s neurons firing

By André Karwath aka Aka - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=227170

You probably didn’t hear about it, but a little while ago, an amazing advance happened in neuroscience: In 2015, for…

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Tim Hulshof August 20, 2018

Puzzle time!

Stable poisson marriage by Alexander Holroyd

Most people, when asked about mathematics will (unfortunately) say it’s dull at best. Yet when you ask mathematicians what they…

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Tim Hulshof July 15, 2018

Vaccinations and networks

In 2014 UNICEF announced that polio had been eradicated in India, one of the last strongholds of the disease. The…

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Tim Hulshof May 18, 2018

Nautilus on networks

Nautilus, for those who don’t know, is a magazine for popular science writing. It’s one of my favorite places for…

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Tim Hulshof May 16, 2017

A network made of math

Alexander Grothendieck (1928—2014) is viewed by many as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. He made contributions to…

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Tim Hulshof May 3, 2017

Large Deviations Theory: understanding the incredibly rare

Probability Theory is one of the most important tools for studying networks. Most things Probability Theory tries to explain are…

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Tim Hulshof April 13, 2017

Lo & Behold: Werner Herzog’s take on the Internet

Source =https://www.flickr.com/photos/zaffi/13522787904/ |Author =[https://www.flickr.com/people/46958049@N00 Raffi Asdourian] from New York, United States

Filmmaker Werner Herzog’s documentaries are instantly recognizable by their slow, Germanically inflected voice-over, which champions the bleakest of world-views. Here…

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Tim Hulshof February 5, 2017

Predicting gang violence with networks

By Allen McGregor - https://www.flickr.com/photos/allenmcgregor/7721314076, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=42374451

Chicago is famous for three things: art, architecture, and gang violence. The Chicago Police Department is trying all sorts things…

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Tim Hulshof January 1, 2017

L’Internet avant la lettre

By Zinneke - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4427401

 Nautilus has an entertaining and well-researched long story about the history of humanity’s attempts to make sense of the huge…

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Tim Hulshof December 22, 2016

A big breakthrough in the Graph Isomorphism Problem

Theoretical computer science is a scientific discipline that is concerned with the kind of problems that computers can solve. A…

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Tim Hulshof December 11, 2016
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