Paul Smaldino @psmaldino@qoto.org
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Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Modeler. Curmudgeon. Faculty at UC Merced and Santa Fe Institute.
Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
Bluesky: @psmaldino.bsky.social
Joined Nov 2022
Nice blurb on my forthcoming book from UC Merced. https://cogsci.ucmerced.edu/news/2023/want-use-math-and-computers-understand-society-read-prof-smaldinos-new-book
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Doing some research for next lecture, there is actually a recorded lecture from George Pólya on youtube walking a class through problem solving and conjecture. For the 1% of my followers at my nerd level... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0gbw-Ur_do
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"The Lost Art of Mathematical Modelling" by Gyllingberg, L., Birhane, A., & Sumpter, D. J. T. (2023).
http://arxiv.org/abs/2301.08559
I'm not gonna toot more about ChatGPT, because I think it's actually a terrifying technology that, much like the terminators, should probably be destroyed. But, also like the terminators, they're fun to watch for a while (until Skynet goes online).
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📢 Apply to the Toulouse School of Economics Summer School in Quantitative Social Sciences (May 30, 2023 – June 23, 2023). Application deadline: Feb 10.
Part 1. The evolution of human sociality
Part 2. Economic and political institutions
See link 👇 for more info
They really boost my toot, if you know what I mean.
California has been hit really hard. This photoessay conveys the extent of the damage from the ongoing storms better than other news stories I've seen. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/10/weather/gallery/california-weather-flooding/index.html
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@LarsJohannessen @markigra Rosenau and Durfee, Thinking Theory Thoroughly
@DanLittle, Varieties of Social Explanation
Hedström and Swedberg, Social Mechanisms
(Models:)
Hesse, Models and Analogies in Science
Cartwright, Nature, the Artful Modeler
Clarke and Primo, A Model Discipline
Lave and March, An Introduction to Models in the Social Sciences
Mershon and Shvetsova, Formal Modeling in Social Science
Page, The Model Thinker
@psmaldino’s forthcoming book
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Maintaining transient diversity is a general principle for improving collective problem solving https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/ykrv5/ preprint from Paul Smaldino and colleagues
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So sorry to hear about Herb Gintis’s death. Here is the podcast I did with him just over a year ago.
RT @snaidunl@twitter.com
Herb Gintis, who was my first mentor in econ, just passed. I'll write more about Herbs brilliance when I've processed this, but here's a link to the Bowles and Gintis festschrift conference (and papers) I organized with @EricVerhoogen@twitter.com and Michael Reich https://econ.columbia.edu/event/ccc2019/
Just found out that my book can be pre-ordered! Release date is October 3, 2023. Text has been finalized, cover is still being designed.
PUP: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691224138/modeling-social-behavior
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691224145?tag=it_books_com-20
Who Are the Cultural Evolutionists? Thoughtful post by Cody Moser. https://culturologies.substack.com/p/who-are-the-cultural-evolutionists #culturalevolution
From the custom editor's style guide used for copyediting my upcoming book -- here are the B's and W's. The intersection of many things.
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The #culturalevolution #humanevolution and related people on here. Who am I missing? Please reply and retoot:
@rlmcelreath
@simon
@epower
@psmaldino
@ct_bergstrom
@jplotkin
@al_cibiades
@rebeccasear
@Drand
@wgervais
@simonreader
@zefferman
@juemos
@CTennie
@debruine
@fionajordan
@RachelSpicer
@willismonroe
@incertaesedis
@HyperadaptHyrax
@joseph_bulbulia
@DorsaAmir
@iyadrahwan
@manvir
@anthrolog
@PatrickESavage
@scottclaessens
@ehud
@celestekidd
@mcxfrank
@drghirlanda
@rachelaharrison
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King Tubby + making latkes 🕎🤘
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RT @sarahkendzior@twitter.com
When Twitter debuted, it offered an alternative and challenge to MSM. But that media world is dead -- local news gutted, websites paywalled, cable news siloed into paid streaming outlets. Twitter is where people go to work around a media designed to keep people uninformed.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/1592875535901765632
- Website
- https://smaldino.com/wp
- @psmaldino
Paradigmatically promiscuous scientist. Modeler. Curmudgeon. Faculty at UC Merced and Santa Fe Institute.
Web: https://smaldino.com/wp/
Bluesky: @psmaldino.bsky.social
Joined Nov 2022
