1) Sevgili erolgoka Hocamızın başına gelen artık (maalesef) kanıksamaya başladığımız bir durum: (Sosyal) medyada gerçek olmayanla gerçekmiş gibi yüz yüze bırakılmak
Konunun ayakları çok fazla.
Sinan Aral hocanın Furya Makinesi 2. bölümde bahsettiği 'Gerçekliğin Sonu' ya da ++

At milemark•capital, three MIT Sloan Fellows MBA program program alumni and their professor, Sinan Aral, are investing in early-stage startups propelled by diverse founders and AI. bit.ly/3Uj7S0E

Accelerated research about generative AI from MIT Sloan
🔥🔥🔥🔥 mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-…

This new paper from Dean Eckles et al. counters recent findings that clustered networks are better at facilitating the spread of threshold-based contagions than randomly rewired networks. Amin Rahimian MIT IDSS University of Pittsburgh
nature.com/articles/s4156…

AI can fly F-16s but can't drive in San Francisco... Gives you a sense of the relative progress of civilian and military uses of artificial intelligence. businessinsider.com/us-military-wo…

This should be good. Sinan Aral is one of the brightest minds and deepest thinkers on social media network science.

📣 Don't miss our final Awesome Speaker of the year!

Join us for Sinan Aral's talk 'A Causal Test of the Strength of Weak Ties' tomorrow at 12:15pm ET.

Register here: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

~”Another difference between social network interference & online markets interference is that in most social network settings, + (neg) direct effects beget + (neg) spillover effects, whereas we expect + (neg) direct effects to create neg (+) spillover effects in online markets”

🚨New Paper! Super proud of David Holtz and our coauthors Felipe Lobel, Ruben Lobel and Inessa for publishing this great work from David's Thesis: 'Reducing Interference Bias in Online Marketplace Experiments Using Cluster Randomization' in INFORMS Management Science

Aftershock just now...

I'm very excited that my paper w/ Felipe Lobel Ruben Lobel Inessa and Sinan Aral 'Reducing Interference Bias in Online Marketplace Experiments Using Cluster Randomization' is now published in INFORMS Management Science and available online:

pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/mn…

'The Hype Machine' - Sinan Aral.
Probably the best book I've read about how social media affects society. Reread it recently for something I was writing and I continue to think he does a great job explaining in great detail how these platforms foster echo chambers.