statistics, werk, organisation
A video on human interconnectedness and how things spread as function of our connectedness made me think of someone who in my first year of studies told us about their major: dynamic systems (or somesuch). This video goes into detail on exactly this subject: how networks and their ‘shape’ determine what it does and how it works. It can be applied to anything: from answering the question how many degree of separation is between you and $famous_person, to neural networks, social networks and biochemical networks. (Are dynamic systems always networks?) It’s an area of math, I guess. Seems so powerful to be able to apply your studies so widely, maybe I should have chosen that!
Watts-Strogatz and Barabási–Albert are two of those models that can be used to understand deep emergent truths such as that hubs will always form, and they are weak spots in the resilience of the network.