Paul Smaldino @psmaldino@qoto.org

@bthalpin I found this example to be very interesting and wanted to see if I could golf it down a little with Distances.jl - I think it came out quite clean.

https://gist.github.com/jonocarroll/8180c068fa46fb3a3be4d7bbf0fd146f

I've been looking at @psmaldino's book on social simulation https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691224145/modeling-social-behavior for a potential new course.

I like it a lot but it uses NetLogo. I'd prefer to use Julia, so I spent a couple of hours this afternoon translating his first example.

Result: likely quite straightforward to teach from this book using Julia. Blog summary:

https://brendanhalpin.net/blog/posts/netlogovsjulia/

As warned, Reddit has taken a bundle of money from "Open"AI and will use it to further monetize what you -- and the volunteers who moderate it all -- contributed for free.

It's the norm now, and particularly slimy in this case.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24158529/reddit-openai-chatgpt-api-access-advertising

Evolution of Similarity-Biased Social Learning.

New preprint with Alejandro Perez Velilla. A long time in the making. Feedback welcome!
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/j7yas

Interdisciplinary Workshop on Identity and Politics at IAST/Toulouse, May 15-16. Looking forward to this.

https://www.iast.fr/interdisciplinary-workshop-identity-and-politics

@futurebird @stveje
NOT looking for suggestions.

Bemoaning the fact that on the iPad

1. You can't search for "no in-app purchases, pay up front, no ads, do not collect personal data" apps

2. There is no way to find the good apps without wading through a morass of terrible apps

3. Developer payment options are primarily: gather user's data and sell it; charge rent; ads / protection racket

Almost no apps operate on a "pay me to own the thing as is" basis.