On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Telmo Menezes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In the blog post I make an effort to interpret the equations. To try to > answer your question, consider the "political blogs" case. The expression > is: > > w(i, j) = exp(4 - 2d) > > One possibility that this raises: maybe we can explain bi-partidarism as > the simple outcome of social contagion. You ran this generator (for the > network size of the real case) and you get two communities with a small > interface -- just like the political blog network discussing the elections > in 2004. It proves nothing, of course. But it hints at something. > > This reminds me of http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~pearce/modules/lectures/abs/as/ca.htm. Ethnic clustering is modeled by cellular automata. Start with a 2D grid of cells of different colors, and a single rule that if a cell doesn't have at least one neighbor of similar color, it swaps with a random cell. The resulting grid converges on uniform blocks of color. It shows that segregation occurs even with a very weak preference to be with others of like color, where color could be stand in for skin color or any other identifying trait. T -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
