On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Terren Suydam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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. > Yes, it's very reminiscent of Schelling's model, no doubt. Here we have something extra that I think is interesting: we started with a real dataset and reverse-engineered it. We found a segregation model without assuming it at the start. Of course this is all speculative: all we really have is an expression. Its interpretation is debatable. Telmo. > > 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. > -- 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.
