Alfredo González-Espinoza
@spiralizing.bsky.social
Scientist | Librarian
Interdisciplinary at heart.
Complex Systems and Computational Methods for Interdisciplinary Research
Research & Data Services @ CMU Libraries
https://spiralizing.github.io/
Un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos 🌍🌏🌎
Interdisciplinary at heart.
Complex Systems and Computational Methods for Interdisciplinary Research
Research & Data Services @ CMU Libraries
https://spiralizing.github.io/
Un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos 🌍🌏🌎
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LLMs as approximate information synthesizers
spiralizing.github.io
Using LLMs as "Approximate Information Synthesizers" has been the best approach I've found.
spiralizing.github.io/BlogNotes/LL...
#AI #LLMs #Automation #AIuse #blog #science #research
spiralizing.github.io/BlogNotes/LL...
#AI #LLMs #Automation #AIuse #blog #science #research
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As part of his research into energy affordability for U.S. households, a Ph.D. candidate reached out to the Data & Code Support team for help with his data. He was paired with one of our amazing Data & Code consultants, Alfredo González-Espinoza (@spiralizing.bsky.social).
Read more: bit.ly/4726HuK
Read more: bit.ly/4726HuK
August 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
As part of his research into energy affordability for U.S. households, a Ph.D. candidate reached out to the Data & Code Support team for help with his data. He was paired with one of our amazing Data & Code consultants, Alfredo González-Espinoza (@spiralizing.bsky.social).
Read more: bit.ly/4726HuK
Read more: bit.ly/4726HuK
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
Need your #code to be faster but don’t want to use Fortran or C? Learn #Julia, the modern language for #HPC, with a high-quality book. Here are some options:
lee-phillips.org/amazonJuliaB...
#julialang - its speed and friendly syntax is taking it beyond #science into #finance and other areas.
lee-phillips.org/amazonJuliaB...
#julialang - its speed and friendly syntax is taking it beyond #science into #finance and other areas.
July 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Need your #code to be faster but don’t want to use Fortran or C? Learn #Julia, the modern language for #HPC, with a high-quality book. Here are some options:
lee-phillips.org/amazonJuliaB...
#julialang - its speed and friendly syntax is taking it beyond #science into #finance and other areas.
lee-phillips.org/amazonJuliaB...
#julialang - its speed and friendly syntax is taking it beyond #science into #finance and other areas.
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
Club Nintendo (México) #2, Jan '92 - 'Super Mario World' Cover.
July 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Club Nintendo (México) #2, Jan '92 - 'Super Mario World' Cover.
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
How do Probabilistic Graphical Models and Graph Neural Networks Look at Network Data? arxiv.org/abs/2506.11869
How do Probabilistic Graphical Models and Graph Neural Networks Look at Network Data?
Graphs are a powerful data structure for representing relational data and are widely used to describe complex real-world systems. Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)...
arxiv.org
July 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
How do Probabilistic Graphical Models and Graph Neural Networks Look at Network Data? arxiv.org/abs/2506.11869
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
What is alive? what is dead?
Before multicellularity, cooperation, etc, there are the thermodynamic constraints.
@ricardsole.bsky.social
Before multicellularity, cooperation, etc, there are the thermodynamic constraints.
@ricardsole.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
What is alive? what is dead?
Before multicellularity, cooperation, etc, there are the thermodynamic constraints.
@ricardsole.bsky.social
Before multicellularity, cooperation, etc, there are the thermodynamic constraints.
@ricardsole.bsky.social
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
A national study put out by our incredible team of librarians is shedding light on how libraries are keeping up with the fast-changing world of #OpenScience. The study appears last month in The Journal of Academic Librarianship.
💻 Read the full story here: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
💻 Read the full story here: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
June 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A national study put out by our incredible team of librarians is shedding light on how libraries are keeping up with the fast-changing world of #OpenScience. The study appears last month in The Journal of Academic Librarianship.
💻 Read the full story here: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
💻 Read the full story here: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
When LLMs Play the Telephone Game: Cultural Attractors as Conceptual Tools to Evaluate LLMs in Multi-turn Settings arxiv.org/abs/2407.04503
When LLMs Play the Telephone Game: Cultural Attractors as Conceptual Tools to Evaluate LLMs in Multi-turn Settings
As large language models (LLMs) start interacting with each other and generating an increasing amount of text online, it becomes crucial to better understand how information is transformed as it passe...
arxiv.org
June 4, 2025 at 9:36 AM
When LLMs Play the Telephone Game: Cultural Attractors as Conceptual Tools to Evaluate LLMs in Multi-turn Settings arxiv.org/abs/2407.04503
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
Commun. Phys.: Evidence of equilibrium dynamics in human social networks evolving in time
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-025-02156-4
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-025-02156-4
June 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Commun. Phys.: Evidence of equilibrium dynamics in human social networks evolving in time
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-025-02156-4
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-025-02156-4
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
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...
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
![Comic. [yellow sphere with icon that reads, CHECK ENGINE] [caption] This new sunspot cluster has raised concern among astronomers.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifixtbs6xmvshoacqnxeqg2q5zpa5z4r36dcj2tz4wssavmfogmhe@jpeg)
June 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
In this month's installment of our Discover & Discuss series, we explore books and movies on the topic of blending #AI into our lives, while retaining the skills and knowledge that makes us human. 👩💻🤖👨💻
💻 View eBooks + streaming videos available at the Libraries: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
💻 View eBooks + streaming videos available at the Libraries: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
June 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
In this month's installment of our Discover & Discuss series, we explore books and movies on the topic of blending #AI into our lives, while retaining the skills and knowledge that makes us human. 👩💻🤖👨💻
💻 View eBooks + streaming videos available at the Libraries: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
💻 View eBooks + streaming videos available at the Libraries: library.cmu.edu/about/news/2...
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks arxiv.org/abs/2505.01167
Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks
Collectives are often able to process information in a distributed fashion, surpassing each individual member's processing capacity. In fission-fusion dynamics, where group members come together and s...
arxiv.org
May 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Uncovering complementary information sharing in spider monkey collective foraging using higher-order spatial networks arxiv.org/abs/2505.01167
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
infomeasure: A Comprehensive Python Package for Information Theory Measures and Estimators arxiv.org/abs/2505.14696
infomeasure: A Comprehensive Python Package for Information Theory Measures and Estimators
Information theory, i.e. the mathematical analysis of information and of its processing, has become a tenet of modern science; yet, its use in real-world studies is usually hindered by its computation...
arxiv.org
May 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM
infomeasure: A Comprehensive Python Package for Information Theory Measures and Estimators arxiv.org/abs/2505.14696
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
Universal expansion of human mobility across urban scales arxiv.org/abs/2406.06889
Universal expansion of human mobility across urban scales
Human mobility is a fundamental process underpinning socioeconomic life and urban structure. Classic theories, such as egocentric activity spaces and central place theory, provide crucial insights int...
arxiv.org
May 24, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Universal expansion of human mobility across urban scales arxiv.org/abs/2406.06889
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
Dream content discovery from social media using natural language processing epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....
Dream content discovery from social media using natural language processing - EPJ Data Science
Dreaming is a fundamental but not fully understood part of human experience. Traditional dream content analysis practices, while popular and aided by over 130 unique scales and rating systems, have li...
epjdatascience.springeropen.com
May 24, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Dream content discovery from social media using natural language processing epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10....
Very very cool!
Phys. Rev. E: Biased random walks on networks with stochastic resetting
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.054309
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.054309
May 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Very very cool!
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
Phys. Rev. E: Biased random walks on networks with stochastic resetting
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.054309
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.054309
May 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Phys. Rev. E: Biased random walks on networks with stochastic resetting
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.054309
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.054309
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
Geometry induced by network-driven processes used to find functional rich clubs in #ComplexSystems
The method also identifies non-rich nodes which are crucial for information flows btw rich nodes.
Plus? It has a clear statistical interpretation.
🧪🧠🧬🪰 #NetSky
journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...
The method also identifies non-rich nodes which are crucial for information flows btw rich nodes.
Plus? It has a clear statistical interpretation.
🧪🧠🧬🪰 #NetSky
journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...
May 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Geometry induced by network-driven processes used to find functional rich clubs in #ComplexSystems
The method also identifies non-rich nodes which are crucial for information flows btw rich nodes.
Plus? It has a clear statistical interpretation.
🧪🧠🧬🪰 #NetSky
journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...
The method also identifies non-rich nodes which are crucial for information flows btw rich nodes.
Plus? It has a clear statistical interpretation.
🧪🧠🧬🪰 #NetSky
journals.aps.org/prresearch/a...
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team!
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Teeth first evolved as sensory tissue in the armored exoskeletons of ancient fish, fossil scans find
Anyone who has ever squirmed through a dental cleaning can tell you how sensitive teeth can be. This sensitivity gives important feedback about temperature, pressure—and yes, pain—as we bite and chew ...
phys.org
May 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
New paper from the lab: Our teeth arose as sensory organs on the outside of the body of ancient jawless fish.!! Congrats to Yara Haridy and the team!
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Background and video: phys.org/news/2025-05...
Open Access Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News and Views: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
CoolWalks for active mobility in urban street networks arxiv.org/abs/2405.01225
CoolWalks for active mobility in urban street networks
Walking is the most sustainable form of urban mobility, but is compromised by uncomfortable or unhealthy sun exposure, which is an increasing problem due to global warming. Shade from buildings can pr...
arxiv.org
May 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
CoolWalks for active mobility in urban street networks arxiv.org/abs/2405.01225
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
Bayesian inference of minimally complex models with interactions of arbitrary order link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...
Bayesian inference of minimally complex models with interactions of arbitrary order
Finding the model that best describes a high-dimensional dataset is a daunting task, even more so if one aims to consider all possible high-order patterns of the data (i.e., correlation patterns betwe...
link.aps.org
May 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Bayesian inference of minimally complex models with interactions of arbitrary order link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
Phys. Rev. E: Popularity-driven random walks on a class of scale-free graphs
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.054303
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.054303
May 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Phys. Rev. E: Popularity-driven random walks on a class of scale-free graphs
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.054303
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.054303
Reposted by Alfredo González-Espinoza
Emergent social conventions and collective bias in LLM populations | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Emergent social conventions and collective bias in LLM populations
Groups of AI agents can develop social conventions, generate societal bias, and undergo critical mass dynamics in norm adoption.
www.science.org
May 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Emergent social conventions and collective bias in LLM populations | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...