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Lada Adamic
Personal blog · ladamic.comcareersciencedata
Lada Adamic's personal blog at ladamic.com covers career, science and data. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Information Evolution in Social Networks”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Lada Adamic's research pages on network models, including complex contagion on grids and meme diffusion studies. Comments discuss the research itself rather than the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Information Evolution in Social Networks2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-08
What Hacker News says?
Cool to watch, though this is a fairly straightforward model of complex contagion on a finite grid. It's similar to Conway's Game of Life in that there's a grid and local rules, but beyond that, the nature of the rules results in a different kind of behavior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_contagion http://www.ladamic.com/netlearn/NetLogo4/DiffusionCompetitio...
Comment linking /netlearn/NetLogo4/DiffusionCompetition.html
on “Automata: Like the Game of Life, but with violence”Submitted Why I left my academic job as a story · 3 points
HN discussionUsing a biological metaphor to study memes is actually an ongoing debate. This strategy has been questioned by some researchers [1], while others (me included) found that it fits the observation quite nicely [2]. I haven't much more to say than "We just need more research". Sorry if it is not very enlightening :-) My rationale for this paper comes from the fact that the usage image macro templates is pretty stable,…
Comment linking /papers/infoevolution/MemeEvolutionFacebook.pdf
on “Average Is Boring: How Similarity Kills a Meme's Success”Submitted The 4 stages of vacation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Information Evolution in Social Networks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Coursera vs. the classroom as a story · 2 points
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