In four weeks, my book comes out in the US. Insanity. If you're interested, you can pre-order at the usual spots.
PUP: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691224145/modeling-social-behavior
AMZN: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691224145?tag=it_books_com-20
@conjugateprior You reminded me of a great Vonnegut quote from Breakfast of Champions. "The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be that same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC."
@dlakelan Mingus is the best.
@anandphilipc also, to some extent, ALL science is data science 🤷♂️
@anandphilipc both are very much about how to draw inferences and make decisions from incomplete and noisy data.
@GodsoeWilliam chapter by chapter if you have access to jstor https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvcm4hnd
@GodsoeWilliam I will admit I mostly use the PDF of it.
@lakens Paperback and hardcover
My Intro to Cognitive Science students get a surprise lesson in parasitology in Week 2 in order to think about the relationship between cognition and environmental predictability. Trying to fill in some gaps here.
@futurebird the
A record that I worked on over the last year, and which is very dear to my heart, is out in the world today! #newMusic
Dad Songs is the second album of goofy, sweet, bizarre indie-pop singalong anthems by The Small Dinosaurs. It's about being a dad and part of a family — with heartfelt songs about favorite foods, cat friends, and going into labor. p/r/m/m by me!
Available anywhere you stream music, including Bandcamp. I hope you love it 🖤
https://smalldinosaurs.bandcamp.com/album/dad-songs
https://open.spotify.com/album/0fJnZzY6vsdLALXy5XU9tC?si=o8_H72IgStOYKOnsgJGL-g&nd=1
here's a mixing idea that you probably should not use very much if at all: put a cassette tape emulation on the master bus and crank the wow and flutter a bit
https://smalldinosaurs.bandcamp.com/track/do-you-read-me
won't lie, i'm proud of this one 😂🏆 check out how the guitar is barely hanging together in the solo!
@bradleveck I agree. I don't have a ready solution for this problem, but I suspect some sort of focused paradigmatic shake-up could be a good thing if done right.
I read an earlier draft of this paper by Francisco Gil-White a few years ago and found it to be a very insightful critique of modern academic institutions. I haven't read the new version, but I imagine it's only gotten better. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4504597
@futurebird a few weeks ago I was at the gym and saw Fox News repeatedly refer to the NYC district attorney as “far left.”
As promised, here's the full album, out today. DAD SONGS is 13 indie/garage/art-rock songs about the milieu of fatherhood. Enjoy.
https://open.spotify.com/album/0fJnZzY6vsdLALXy5XU9tC?si=otWcjuOJQEq7qrCmRiZlhA
Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Modeler. Curmudgeon. Faculty at UC Merced and Santa Fe Institute.
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