{"id":662,"date":"2004-04-08T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/?p=304"},"modified":"2004-04-08T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-08T20:02:00","slug":"304-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gnodal.protension.com\/journal\/archives\/662","title":{"rendered":"Imported from MozDawg without title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>*<\/b> Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve bothered *sigh* falsely signing onto this network to post: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indigosim.org\/\">Information Growth &#038; Diffusion Simulator<\/a>. <i><font color=\"maroon\">Ooooh!<\/font><\/i><br \/>\n<!--more A rather handsome statement of principle-->A rather handsome statement of principle<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The question of how to promote both growth and diffusion of information is both difficult and urgent. It critically affects <b>who<\/b> has access to <b>what<\/b> information and <b>when<\/b>. The nature of information&#8217;s propagation, however, can depend on such a variety of factors that simulation becomes a valuable means of exploring and gaining insight. Propagation can depend on such factors as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">Incentives  for information sharing. <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">Pattern  variations in the shape of network connections.<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">Information  sharing rates, learning rates, and decay rates. <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">Nonrivalry  (the ability of two people to share the same information at the same  time).<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"2\">Agent  strategies for gathering information. <\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">These factors  are represented to various degrees in the simulator you are about to  explore. Various  audiences may find it useful. <\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><b>Public  Policy<\/b> &#8212; What policy levers can we manipulate to increase the total  amount of information while reducing &quot;cyber-stratification?&quot; <\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><b>Economics<\/b>  &#8212; Do agents&#8217; rational strategies increase endogenous information growth?<br \/>\nWhen is growth increasing or decreasing returns to scale? <\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><b>Business<\/b>  &#8212; Is sharing information advantageous or is it better to keep information  secret? Are there useful principles for knowledge management? <\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><b>Teaching<\/b>  &#8212; How can the tenets of information economics be easily explained given  the complexity of the issues?<br \/>\nA number  of scenarios are currently provided, so are tools for creating your own scenarios. In fact &#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suspect these came from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.umich.edu\/%7Emvanalst\/research.html\">Prof. Marshall van Alstyne<\/a>.<br \/>\nBTW, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indigosim.org\/IGD\/indigoapplet.html\">their &#8220;Indigo&#8221; applet<\/a> is rather snappy!<br \/>\n*<b>Update<\/b> Although the applet is still running and the rest of the site is still active my link to the Professor&#8217;s page is gone, stale. So as a peek: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indigosim.org\/tutorials\/index.html\">Indigo tutorials<\/a> 7MARCH2010*<\/p>\n<hr width=\"45%\">\n<p><b>*<\/b> Something a lot like <a href=\"http:\/\/banazir.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">banazir<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bndev.sourceforge.net\/\">Bayesian Network tools in Java (BNJ)<\/a>: &#8220;<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www-2.cs.cmu.edu\/~javabayes\/index.html\/\">JavaBayes<\/a><\/i>&#8221; &#8211; version 0.346; &#8220;Bayesian Networks in Java&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><b>*<\/b> And, speaking of things Bayesian, see &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eecs.umich.edu\/~tbartold\/eecs492\/PS5.html\">Reasoning with Uncertainty<\/a>&#8220;, Problem Set 5 from EECS492. <i>Viz.<\/i>&#8220;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<b>Task 1<\/b>:<br \/>\nConsider a world that consists of two different kinds of people. Some of these people can use the force and some of them can not. People sometimes make strange stuff happen when they can use the force. Other people may also make strange stuff happen even though they cannot use the force (though not that often). Let the probability:<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;(1) Prob(Uses_Force(x) => Strange_Stuff(x))<br \/>\n[&#8230;]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eecs.umich.edu\/~tbartold\/eecs492\/PS5soln.html\">The solutions<\/a> page is actually quite pleasant reading! hfx_ben]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eecs.umich.edu\/~tbartold\/\">Thomas M. Bartold<\/a> is a PhD Candidate in AI.)<\/p>\n<hr width=\"45%\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itu.dk\/research\/theory\/bpl\/projects\/projectlist.html\">Bigraphical Programming Language<\/a>&#8221; &#8230; I&#8217;m sure, from the contents, that this is meant to be &#8220;<i>bi<\/i>-graphical&#8221;. In any case, <i>very interesting<\/b>!<\/i> (BTW, you might have to click &#8220;Show All&#8221; &#8230; something wonky about this page design.)<\/p>\n<hr width=\"45%\">\nAnd almost totally unrelated: Habermas&#8217; &#8220;Communications and the Evolution of Society<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nPart of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.habermas.org\/\">Dear Habermas<\/a>&#8221; (A Journal of Postmodern and Critical Thought Devoted to Academic Discourse on Peace and Justice) reads as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Verstehen, in German, means &#8220;to understand,&#8221; and Verstehende is the adjective from, &#8220;understanding.&#8221; So, a sociology that understands because it takes many factors into account. Those many factors include &#8220;situatedness,&#8221; understanding the fit of the observed facts or actions in the context in which those facts or actions are situated, multiple perspectives, the need for stability and closure at some point, access and opportunity for the expression of validity claims.. &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The alternatives to a project of understanding includes such tactics as systematic distortion and manipulation. <i>I<\/i> think it boils down to a question of pessimism concerning human nature &#8230; but that&#8217;s just me, <i>right?<\/i> *grin*<br \/>\nsee also: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/search?q=cache:fmoZuhz9sLMJ:domino.lancs.ac.uk\/ieppp\/IEP422.nsf\/0\/81a62fdc26dc8bc180256c6a005a6815\/Body\/M2\/IEP422_Lecture5_Habermas.doc%3FOpenElement+habermas+%22communication+and+the+evolution+of%22&#038;hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8\">Theorising Environment and Culture<\/a>&#8221; (google&#8217;s version of the PDF; the doc version of <a href=\"http:\/\/domino.lancs.ac.uk\/ieppp\/IEP422.nsf\/0\/81a62fdc26dc8bc180256c6a005a6815\/Body\/M2\/IEP422_Lecture5_Habermas.doc?OpenElement\">this lecture [#5] is here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/domino.lancs.ac.uk\/ieppp\/IEP422.nsf\/0\/81a62fdc26dc8bc180256c6a005a6815\/Body\/M2\/IEP422_Lecture4_Habermas.doc?OpenElement\">#4 is here<\/a> &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/domino.lancs.ac.uk\/ieppp\/IEP422.nsf\/0\/81a62fdc26dc8bc180256c6a005a6815\/Body\/M2\/IEP422_Lecture4_Habermas.doc?OpenElement\">#3 is here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/domino.lancs.ac.uk\/ieppp\/IEP422.nsf\/0\/81a62fdc26dc8bc180256c6a005a6815\/Body\/M2\/IEP422_Lecture4_Habermas.doc?OpenElement\">#2<\/a>, and finally <a href=\"http:\/\/domino.lancs.ac.uk\/ieppp\/IEP422.nsf\/0\/81a62fdc26dc8bc180256c6a005a6815\/Body\/M2\/IEP422_Lecture4_Habermas.doc?OpenElement\">#1<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J%FCrgen_Habermas\">&#8221;Habermas&#8221; at Wikipedia<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/articles\/1999\/jul1999\/hab-j27.shtml\">and editorial at World Socialist<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve bothered *sigh* falsely signing onto this network to post: Information Growth &#038; Diffusion Simulator. 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