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
Our grad group discussed #ChatGPT today, and I argued that it should never be considered an author because it has no agency or accountability. Nor should it. I direct interested parties to
@j2bryson 's evergreen essay "Robots Should Be Slaves" http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~jjb/ftp/Bryson-Slaves-Book09.html
New paper with Cody Moser. We use modeling to explore how the network structures that best support innovation are also (1) less efficient per capita, and (2) create more severe inequality of knowledge among individuals. The latter is likely to be linked to other forms of inequality. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/n3hc6
Driving my daughter (3.5) to preschool, “Left Behind” by Slipknot came on the radio. I asked her if she liked it because otherwise we could change it, and she gave me a sly grin and a thumbs up. I found this funny, so texted my wife when I got to the school. When I got home, opened insta to find this. The cookies never sleep.
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#TodaysWork: mostly mixing today, again on the small dinosaurs record. i worked too late and i'm exhausted and my ears are shot, but i feel like i finally turned a decisive corner on the album's magnum opus. this fucking song has 75 tracks!! and there's no one to blame but me, because i'm the asshole who produced it! why do i do this to myself 😂
in all seriousness, though, it rules, and it's starting to sound huge. yay.
and we did book club! people got deep tonight. 🖤
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#TodaysWork: i finally got to settle into finishing the mixes on the Small Dinosaurs record we've been working on! the process for this one has been fun. we rented an extremely fancy studio in california for a few days to do the bulk of the tracking ... the singer flew up in november to finish the vocals ... and the band also did some additional overdubs at home! SUCH a fun record; stoked to spend time with it. also, we did "Good to Me" book club day 2; it was lovely. 🖤
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
- 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
