Paul Smaldino @psmaldino@social.cleverlibre.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
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@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.
New draft of a modeling paper I really love, by me and Zack Dunivin. "Dynamics of covert signaling: Modeling the emergence and extinction of identity signals."
Methods! We got coupled differential equations, agent-based modeling, random forest classifiers.
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/3tz2r
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“Grandpa, if everyone knew what was causing climate change and how to stop it, why didn’t you?”
I really enjoyed this conversation on the Converging Dialogues podcast talking about Modeling Social Behavior, models, theory, and the future of social science. https://convergingdialogues.substack.com/p/302-modeling-social-behavior-a-dialogue
@lakens this is one of the main ideas I associate with Popper — it’s all over his book Objective Knowledge IIRC
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The third edition of my textbook, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, was published today. You can preview the first 68 pages on Google Books, or take a look at the preface below to see what's new. The main new thing is a chapter on the Kuramoto model! Hope you enjoy it.
@abbynormative @sabrinaschalz @academicchatter I'm pretty overloaded right now, but if they're really in a pinch I could be persuaded. More appropriate though might be more solidly "animal behavior" folks like @Eliz_Hobson @damienfarine Albert Kao, Jeff Schank, Hanna Kokko, Kevin Ringelman
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There's not enough "fuck you"s in the world to react to this shit. #LLMs should be tools used in the service of people; what in the world is this proposal to make people work for LLMs?!
Any and all changes to scientific publishing needs to be for so that other **people** can access them and understand them.
And the single most important change would be for Nature and other publishers not to charge 29.99 USD for a shitty 4-paragraph essay that they didn't pay for themselves.
I totally slept on the fact that today was my book’s UK (and EU?) release date! It should be available worldwide now. Get your snarky advice about modeling right here!
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Publication day! The modeling textbook I started five years ago is finally out today. I'm proud of it, and really grateful to everyone who helped make it better.
PUP: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691224145/modeling-social-behavior
AMZN: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691224145?tag=it_books_com-20
I got asked to make a list of five books I like that are connected thematically with my own book. I like talking about books, so I did. Here's "The best books about (human) behavior that reward working through the math." https://shepherd.com/best-books/behavior-that-reward-working-through-the-math
Neat documentary about SFI. Around 16:30 you can see a workshop I ran in May sitting in the atrium (I am behind some other people and not visible, though you can see my hat peaking out). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gjZ_dfzaDE&ab_channel=TheWell
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This is lovely, if you can access BBC radio - Sarah Hrdy on the Life Scientific. A reminder of how important her work is to the evolutionary behavioural sciences, & also how recent was virulent sexism (she once didn't get a job because she was married...)
New paper out in Phil Trans B with Karolina Safarzynska. Simple model of a group-structured public good with externalities shifting benefits toward more inequality or more equity. Only redistributional externalities increase cooperation. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2022.0267
For my (obligatory) lectures on consciousness in my Intro CogSci class, I assign Douglas Hofstadter's "Careenium" essay from 1982. No matter how many times I re-read it, I always find new stuff in there. What a delight.
Solid press release about my book from UC Merced. They did cut a quote I gave them where I said I hoped literally everyone in the world would read it, but I suppose we should err on the side of humility.
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Andrew Gelman reviewed my book, Modeling Social Behavior.
“The book has social science, it has code, it has graphs—it’s got everything… I hope it’s taught in thousands of classes and sells a zillion copies.”
Andrew Gelman reviewed my book, Modeling Social Behavior.
“The book has social science, it has code, it has graphs—it’s got everything… I hope it’s taught in thousands of classes and sells a zillion copies.”
- 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
