Richard Blythe
Professor of Complex Systems, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh. EPL Editor-in-Chief. Views own. He/him.
- Reposted by Richard BlytheEPL celebrates its 40th anniversary! 🎉 To celebrate, we launch a series of 40th Anniversary Highlights, written by our Editor-in-Chief Dr Richard Blythe, and revisiting key papers published in EPL. The first Highlight is now online and free to read: 👉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
- Passing the time on New Year’s Eve by watching Back to the Future 2 for the first time. I’m reminded of the horrors of resolving git merge conflicts.
- Interacting agents can create shared communication systems without ever knowing if signals are successfully received. The conventionalisation process involves a curious interaction between joint attention and individual behavioural differences. doi.org/10.1371/jour.... Work with Casimir Fisch.
- Doing some housekeeping and found a talk I gave as a postdoc. 21 slides in one hour! I could barely manage five now…
- Interesting because I don’t really feel like much has changed in the intervening (checks watch) 20 years. But I have done a lot of teaching, which I think has helped me better assess how much content fits a time slot. (Says no one who’s witnessed one of my 2.5hr overruns.)
- Reposted by Richard BlytheThere's one week left to submit an application to be a #postdoc in our group! The project is very flexible, so there is room for own ideas. The advertisement lists more details: www.ds.mpg.de/4078435/job_...
- Giving a talk on “the physics behind our irreversible reality” in Kent next month. Expect grape juice, buttercream, starlings and grammar. research.kent.ac.uk/kent-physics...
- Reposted by Richard Blythe🥳 EPL is now on Bluesky! 🥳
- Reposted by Richard BlytheFREE TO READ - OPEN ACCESS: Skyrmion soliton motion on periodic substrates by atomistic and particle-based simulations by J. C. B. Souza, N. P Vizarim, C. J. O. Reichhardt, C. Reichhardt and P. A. Venegas #FreeToRead #OpenAccess 👉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
- Suddenly a lot busier in here.
- If you've read the docs and still can't get your C++ code to compile, chances are you need either to add or remove some consts. But you will never know which.
- Supplemental Information: Where science goes to die.
- Spent a _ridiculous_ amount of time chasing a bug that turned out to be an array index i mistyped as the numeral 1. Ouch.
- One would have thought that after ~30 years of C/C++ coding I would suspect a self-inflicted buffer overrun over an obscure compiler/CPU bug as the most likely source of unpredictable half-right output...
- Reposted by Richard Blythe📢Now out in Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory🔓 "Reliable identification of selection mechanisms in language change" doi.org/10.1515/cllt... /Juan Guerrero Montero, myself, Kenny Smith, @dralgernon.bsky.social The method is general, applicable to also cultural, social etc data!
