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Saturday, September 14, 2024

Urn model

Lesson 13 - Path dependence
Path dependence means that what happens at time T depends on all time steps t<T. Or put plainly that history matters.
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Sunday, August 13, 2023

Culture dimensions

Lesson 12 - Coordination and Culture
Coordination is doing the same somebody else is doing. Culture refers to differences between groups of interacting people. In order to have these differences between groups…
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Saturday, August 12, 2023

Trade

Lesson 11 - Lyapunov Functions
Lyapunov functions map models into outcomes. We can take a model or a system and ask whether there is a Lyapunov function that describes that model or system. If that is…
Oren Bochman
Friday, August 11, 2023

Historical trend of freedom in countries

Lesson 10 - Markov Processes
Markov models consist of entities that can be in a set of states and there are transition probabilities between those states. e.g., there is a set of students. Those…
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Thursday, August 10, 2023

Landscape

Lesson 9 - Diversity and innovation
There are several issues regarding to problem solving, e.g. how individuals and teams go about solving problems, the role of diversity in problem solving, how ideas can get…
Oren Bochman
Wednesday, August 9, 2023

Comparison Botswana versus Zimbabwe

Lesson 8 - Economic Growth
Exponential growth is accumulating over time like interest. It is possible to make primitive models for economic growth. These models show that without innovation, growth…
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Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Height of the camel

Lesson 7 - Tipping Points
The straw that broke the Camel’s back is utterly ridiculous example. Here is perhaps a few better ones:
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Monday, August 7, 2023

Constructing linear model from data

Lesson 6 - Categorical and Linear Models
Categorical models allocates the data into different boxes. For example, trying to understand why some people live longer than others, we could divide them into people who…
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Sunday, August 6, 2023

thinking fast and slow

Lesson 5 - Thinking Electrons Modelling People
“Imagine how hard physics would be if electrons could think.” — Murray Gell-Mann (1969 Nobel Laureate in Physics)
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Saturday, August 5, 2023

Trains Tickets Decision tree

Lesson 4 - Decision Models
Decision models encode how people make decisions as well as how they should make decisions.
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Friday, August 4, 2023

3D model hydrogen bonds in water source

Lesson 3 - Aggregation
More is different. — Physics Nobel Laureate Phillip Anderson, Nobel Memorial Prize Laureate
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Lesson 2 - Segregation and Peer Effects
In this lesson we get started by looking
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Models Thinking?

Lesson 1 - Why Model?
Perhaps not the subject of this course, but sometimes I wonder
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023
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