Category: Misc
-
Op-ed in Politiken
With the awesome Anders Søgaard, I recently wrote an Op-ed in the Danish newspaper Politiken. The op-ed is paywalled, so I’m posting a little pre-print of it here for your reading pleasure.
-
Philosophy of the Predicted Human: Cesar Hidalgo
Jonas L Juul and I are organizing a series of talks this year on the topic of The Predicted Human. Our first speaker is the amazing Cesar Hidalgo. Did I mention that Cesar is amazing? Let me give you some reasons. He’s the the Director of the Center for Collective Learning which spans the Universities…
-
Tweets I would have written. December 19, 2022 edition
It’s tough not to check Twitter, so I’m posting my random tweet ideas here:
-
Post versus Person
The setup. In this post I want to discuss the topic of filter-bubbles / echo-chambers. I think it’s dangerous to define too specifically what a filter bubble is (for reasons which will become apparent below), but the intuition is some kind of algorithmic sorting that exposes specific groups of people to content that resonates with…
-
Christoph Stadtfeld Talk
We are very excited to be joined by Christoph Stadtfeld on April 28th, where he’ll discuss The emergence of social networks and how they matter for individuals. Christoph is an Associate Professor of Social Networks at ETH Zürich. His work investigates how social networks evolve over time and how individuals are affected by the emerging…
-
Much ado …
So, recently, I won a Danish research award. A side effect of winning the award is that a bunch of Sune-material was created around it. For example, an official portrait There is also a video of me doing “research-y” stuff. And there’s even a little written “portrait” of me (in Danish). I can’t really put…
-
Oh Twitter…
Experiencing a Twitter take-down A few days ago, I was scrolling on Twitter when I came across a Twitter thread by Dr. Matthew Sweet (@drmatthewsweet) about Johann Hari’s new book Stolen Focus. I haven’t read Stolen Focus, only the parts about our work. Those parts were completely fine, see full backstory below. I don’t know…
-
My favorite talk by me
On May 20th, 2014, I gave a talk at Christiania in Copenhagen. The talk was at a cool talk-series called “Science and Cocktails”, and my talk had the title “Complex Networks: Connections, Measurements, and Social Systems“. To this day I still have fond memories of that talk. It was a packed room, in a stylish…
-
Talk: Leo Anthony Celi
Hey Copenhageners, I’m happy to announce the first talk in a long, long while. We’re extremely lucky to have Dr. Leo Anthony Celi from MIT kick things off with a talk about his work with Machine Learning for health care. Talk details are below – and if you keep reading, there’s also more info about…
-
“Too Lazy”: Episode 4 with Leidy Klotz
Our Episode 4 guest, Leidy Klotz, is a Professor at the University of Virginia. He studies the science of design: how we transform things from how they are – to how we want them to be. Leidy wants to apply his work outside of academia. He wants address climate change and systemic inequality, Leidy also…
sune lehmann 