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Welcome! I’m Manuel Sorge, researcher in theoretical computer science. News and ramblings:
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10001
Chinese ·Since in Chinese vocabulary you have both the sound and the elaborate characters, it can happen that the characters transmit some meaning which otherwise could get lost. My current favorite example is 万一 (wan4yi1), which can mean “in case”, “random event”, “emergency”, “eventuality” and the two characters are literally just a number: 10001. For example, you can say 为什么你带雨伞？ (why...
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Fridays for future
Society ·In April last year I saw a German late-night talk show with politicians, a popular science author, and a youth activist about the climate-change protest by school children. I felt stupid as I watched it because nowhere were there actual numbers, targets to be achieved, or concrete actions that can be taken. There were only petty accusations like that the...
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Temporal Clustering
Paper summaries ·Clustering data is a basic task and has gotten immense attention, in particular graph-based clustering, where we are given pairwise relationships between people, say, and we want to group them into well-connected clusters with fewer connections between clusters. Here is an interesting relatively new twist on this kind of problem [2]: Instead of static data, like in a snapshot of...
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Improving your Facebook feed / Maximizing closeness and betweenness centrality
News ·One sentence summary: Increasing your importance in Facebook by making new friends is quite hard in theory. Say you could befriend any k persons on Facebook. Who would you add so that you get the most out of your feed? That seems hard to measure but let’s suppose that your feed gets more useful the more central you are in...