Of all the fuzzy intervening opportunity models, this one is most explicitly designed to predict home-based shopping trips: “A fuzzy intervening opportunity model to predict home-based shopping trips.” Shahriar Afandizadeh [pictured here], Seyed Mehdi Yadi Hamedani, Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2012, 39:(2), 203-222, The authors are at the School of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science […]
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Simple Model of the Evolution of Simple Models of Evolution
Some people don’t like to think about evolution, but others so enjoy doing it that they think about the evolution of evolution. The model for this—really for modeling models of this, is a study written in 1999: “A Simple Model of the Evolution of Simple Models of Evolution,” Cosma Rohilla Shalizi and William A. Tozier, […]
Fashion model + geiger counter
A TV commercial for Dorothy Gray Salon Cold Cream uses a geiger counter to measure the slightly radioactive dirt that they had smeared on a fashion model’s face. It’s a 1950’s triumph for the use of measurement in the fashion industry.