“What does the future hold for social media and bullshit?” asks professor Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (Univ. Oxford, UK) in a new communication published in the journal Social Media + Society (“An online, open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal deeply committed to advancing the understanding of social media and its impact on societies past, present and future.”) The […]
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The social events objectives of The Worshipful Company of Actuaries
Question: What are the social events objectives of The Worshipful Company of Actuaries? Answer: The answer appears on the web site of The Worshipful Company of Actuaries, on the page devoted to “Social Events Objectives”, in a downloadable PDF document named “Social Events Objectives”. Here is that document, reproduced in its entirety (and shrunken a bit, […]
“Inelegant Mathematics and Worse Social Science?”
For a while, a long while ago, some people thought they would soon make computers simulate the ways people behave with each other. This paper, published in 1974, suggested that maybe such things would not be simple or easy: “Computer Simulations: Inelegant Mathematics and Worse Social Science?“, Hayward R. Alker, International Journal of Mathematical Education […]
Rock/Paper/Scissors/Equations
If you like equations, here’s just part of the fun you’ll find in the newly published paper “Social cycling and conditional responses in the Rock-Paper-Scissors game” (arXiv:1404.5199): (Thanks to Florian Gallwitz for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS: Rock, paper, scissors, robot, monkey BONUS: Rock, scissors, monkey