Human Belief Systems and Social Contagion

Hey NetFOLLOWERS, we are back with a bang ! Last Thursday we had our first seminar after the summer break. Our speaker was the energetic @RachithAiyappa from @IUBloomington who gave a talk on Human Belief Systems and Social Contagions.

His research aims to unify complex and simple contagion under a unique model; but how did he cope with the long-standing fight of Empirical validation VS Model? Well, thanks to Large Language Models !

During programming in Python, he also struggled with slow simulations, as often happens when dealing with parametric models. So, he gave Julia a shot (with Snakemake) and found that it was much faster!

Discover more at our recording here. And what about you? Do you have any advice for slow simulations? What programming languages do you use? Give your opinion here!