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by wybo 12y ago
AgentBase.org as a website allows the in-browser editing and sharing of ABMs. These ABMs make use of the AgentBase library. This library is quite similar to AgentScript. The AgentBase library actually was a fork from the AgentScript library
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by wybo 12y ago
Cool to see the tinkering works for you! It is mesmerizing :) Do save your model as a new one if you want, makes it a one-click experience for visitors. (in an ideal scenario AgentBase would do this automatically, and for each edit provide
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by wybo 12y ago
A side-project that came out of my (ongoing) thesis work at Oxford. I model social movements, and how the Internet and Social Media might affect them. You can try a template model here: http://agentbase.org/model.html?9d5459
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Introducing AgentBase, for Agent Based Modeling from the Browser(agentbase.org)
24 points by wybo 12y ago|9 comments
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by wybo 13y ago
If you take the terms technically, it is private mass-transit. However, considering its function, it does cut directly into the market for public transport (that already is difficult in many US cities due to lower density and more car-use).
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by wybo 13y ago
Is this really happening? If it is, it brings up an interesting issue. Private public transport can out compete public transport. But then school buses already do this as well (compared to Europe). Though I did commute using SF buses, and I
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San Francisco's guerrilla protest at Google buses swells into revolt(theguardian.com)
43 points by wybo 13y ago|70 comments
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by wybo 13y ago
I don't know. If you can simulate a brain, you can alter it. And if you can alter it, you can make it artificially happy, or simply remove areas hosting willfulness, sleep, sexuality or independent thought. Won't make them suitabl
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by wybo 13y ago
This looks like a brilliant way for spammers to collect e-mail addresses...
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by wybo 13y ago
There could still be reasons for picking such a sample. 1) In the far future, when most direct hardships are a thing of the past our lives probably resemble those of Harvard students more, than those of a random population sample in the 193
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by wybo 13y ago
It may not be from a business perspective. But in terms of whether the market is working its wonders, I'd say it is perfect. Consumers benefit because there is a lot of fierce competition. Exactly the way it should be for a hardware pr
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by wybo 13y ago
Another fan here. Played them all a lot, from the original TA + expansions, TA Spring (loved how long-range bullets literally bounced back off the shields), and the Supreme Commander series. So far I think the best in the series was Supreme
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by wybo 13y ago
True. It is a nice system we have (no school districts + full government funding for all schools based on nr of pupils they attract; also for denominational & other types of education on an equal basis (as long as test-results are okish
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by wybo 13y ago
There are alternatives to home-schooling if one wants freedom (& without making every parent a teacher & both my parents had been teachers - not at my school when I was there -, so they could have). Montessori, or Jenaplan (a Dutch&
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by wybo 13y ago
What surprises me here is that virtually all comments are about whether peasants really had many holidays. And not about the current situation (+ the macho 'my hours are longer than yours' trap that most of the California Software
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by wybo 13y ago
Not in defence of laptop hobos, but the following is bs: > "For centuries cafes have been places where people go to meet, trade gossip, network and otherwise come together informally, and some coffee shops are trying to encourage th
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by wybo 13y ago
1) (Quite unclear what you mean by this statement) However government does much more than employ violence. In fact most government does has nothing to do with violence. Such as provide infrastructural and social services, stipulate laws, an
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by wybo 13y ago
By being red at least 50% of the time (and making cars drive past fast & and making it an offence to cross the street even if there is no traffic (so in addition to watching the traffic one needs to scan the street for police...)). Also
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by wybo 13y ago
Am I the only one here who can see the fallacy in this? Government does not have unlimited power. Government is accountable, mostly democratically controlled power. It is, if there is a proper democracy (which there is in much of Western Eu
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by wybo 13y ago
Free trade agreements bring more than just benefits. A nation/country is a bit like an ecosystem or a company, with its own interests, internal culture, customs, and market. Opening that market up to another country requires trust. If
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by wybo 13y ago
Wrote a paper on exactly such a website: http://wybowiersma.net/pub/essays/Wiersma,Wybo,A_global_advi...
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by wybo 13y ago
I'd like to add a few points from my own experience: Cars: In America/Golden Gate Park, people take their car into the park! They even park it right there, right next to where they have their picnic. Odd but understandable. In Eur
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by wybo 13y ago
I don't agree. Good governance is possible, and size has little to do with it. If there is proper democratic control over government, government can be a force for good. Many northern European countries governments show this (they gene
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by wybo 13y ago
And if you lost faith in Congress, like 94% of Americans. You might also join a realistic effort to reform it: http://www.rootstrikers.org (ran by Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard law prof who also founded the Creative Commons movement)
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by wybo 13y ago
Could not agree more. There is a reason 8-hour working days were instated, even for uncreative, manual labour. Most people, including most of the best, are simply more productive and creative if they want to make their time in the office co
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by wybo 13y ago
The incentives in college have always been in alignment, because there is so much interesting stuff going on (at universities worth their name) on campus, both in the academic and social spheres (visiting scholars, entrepreneurs, conference
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by wybo 13y ago
Had a somewhat similar experience (except that my (college) friends lived across the Atlantic). Ideally suburbia should become a thing of the past (and it might, with rising energy prices). But for now I'd say the best thing you could do is
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by wybo 13y ago
I went to work at a startup after an MSc. I was there for little over a year, and now I am back in Grad school (the same where I was, in the UK). Most of the differences you describe I experienced as well, except that holidays could be plan
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by wybo 13y ago
I don't agree, a PhD can be great fun and interesting. Perhaps it depends on where you do your PhD, and in what field (the UK-system, at least in many fields, affords you more freedom, as you only work on your own research... (assuming you
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by wybo 13y ago
Are you sure it has to do with the hours, and not with; say the type of projects you've been working on, the amount of freedom you've been given, or the big office atmosphere?

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