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    <title>A Mess as a Queer Map | feministkilljoys</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-22T12:42:36+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Perhaps procedures are not just what exist on paper, they paper over what exists. Complaints procedures can be used rather like diversity: as a way of not addressing a problem by appearing to do so. My book Complaint! is profoundly indebted to the work of Black feminists and feminists of colour such as M. Jacqui Alexander, Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Heidi Mirza who have offered critiques of what diversity does not do.

Diversity can paper over racism. Paper matters. To make a complaint is often to make use of papers. An academic describes, “In every one of my complaints I used the policies that were given to us by the university.”  To make use of policies in a complaint is often to point to their failure to be followed. Having evidence of the failure of policies to be followed does not guarantee the success of a complaint. She described policy as a trip wire: “That was my experience of the complaint process.  As an employer of the university, the minute you try to enact policy that you are told when you are hired to be the vanguards of, to protect the quality of education and work at the university, that in effect it is a trip wire, and that in effect you become the person to be investigated. These policies are not meant.” When you try and use a policy to do what it was meant to do, your action sends out an alarm or an alert. To make a complaint is to find out what policies are not meant. You are stopped from using the policy rather like a trespasser is stopped from entering the building.  If a usage becomes an alarm, you are being told, you are not supposed to do that, you are not supposed to be here. You are stopped by becoming “the person to be investigated.”

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    <title>The Yakut Verbal Voice System - Justin Erik Halldór Smith</title>
    <dc:date>2021-02-21T01:16:55+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In English, there are two voices, active and passive, and a given verb may occur in either of these two. For example, “He ate” and “He was eaten” both employ the verb “to eat” in one of its forms. In Yakut, by contrast, there are five principal voices, as well as other voice-like verb forms, and in general a given verb is used in only one of the voices. A verb in a given voice is identified by characteristic endings, and is usually related in meaning to, though different from, similar verbs with different characteristic endings belonging to different voices. Related verbs in different voices, in other words, have a relation less like that between “to eat” and “to be eaten”, and more like that between, say, “to respond” and “to correspond”, or between “to speak” and “to bespeak”.

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    <title>What Proof Is Best? |</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A great illustration of this “Let a hundred proofs bloom” point of view is provided by an article by Stan Wagon called “Fourteen Proofs of a Result About Tiling a Rectangle”. Here’s the result his title refers to (a puzzle posed and solved by Nicolaas de Bruijn): Whenever a rectangle can be cut up into smaller rectangles each of which has at least one integer side, then the big rectangle has at least one integer side too. (Here “at least one integer side” is tantamount to “at least two integer sides”, since the opposite sides of a rectangle always have the same length.)

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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It is also the case that statements that are not intended as complaints can be received as complaints. Just using words such as racism or sexism can mean being heard as making a complaint. If we think of the word complaint we might think of a formal statement; a complaint as something you officially lodge. But if we think of the word “complaining” it brings up something else; it brings up somebody else. The word complaining has a negative quality: the word belongs with the killjoy in the same family of words; complaining, killjoy, whinging, moaning, buzzkill, party-pooper; stick-in-the-mud. In an earlier post, I described how being heard as complaining is not being heard. You are heard as expressing yourself; as if you are complaining because that is who you are or what you are like. If you are heard as complaining then what you say is dismissible, as if you are complaining because that is your personal tendency. When you are heard as complaining you lose the about: what you are speaking about is not heard when they make it about you.

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    <title>[1710.02196] Porcupine Neural Networks: (Almost) All Local Optima are Global</title>
    <dc:date>2019-09-15T11:16:24+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Neural networks have been used prominently in several machine learning and statistics applications. In general, the underlying optimization of neural networks is non-convex which makes their performance analysis challenging. In this paper, we take a novel approach to this problem by asking whether one can constrain neural network weights to make its optimization landscape have good theoretical properties while at the same time, be a good approximation for the unconstrained one. For two-layer neural networks, we provide affirmative answers to these questions by introducing Porcupine Neural Networks (PNNs) whose weight vectors are constrained to lie over a finite set of lines. We show that most local optima of PNN optimizations are global while we have a characterization of regions where bad local optimizers may exist. Moreover, our theoretical and empirical results suggest that an unconstrained neural network can be approximated using a polynomially-large PNN.
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    <title>The Misfit Resistance | Public Books</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-26T11:37:41+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Could the story go someplace as yet unknown?” Joan asks at the end of The Book of Joan. Through Yuknavitch’s narrative methodology of “corporeal writing” (also the name of the writing workshops she offers in Portland, Oregon), she writes from the point of view of the body, seeking narrative forms that fit a myriad of different somatic experiences.
In this project, she is not alone. New modes of feminist and queer writing by Roxane Gay, Maggie Nelson, and Christina Crosby also focus on body stories that don’t fit mainstream narrative archetypes. Ariel Gore, in her new and amazing We Were Witches, similarly challenges the school of creative writing that prioritizes phallic plotting: rather than write a story where rising action leads to a climax, Gore vows to put a vagina in the middle of her stories.
While each of these writers articulates her projects differently, taken as a whole their work embodies the call to action in Yuknavitch’s The Misfit’s Manifesto. Artists and writers play a pivotal role in the rewriting of the dominant narratives of our current political climate, whether or not they identify with the term misfit. “We help culture find new shapes,” Yuknavitch argues, by telling stories that reflect our embodied experience of the world. The dramatic rise of “Me Too” as a way to document stories of sexual harassment and assault suggests that there is real political power in collective storytelling. 
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    <title>[1404.6520] How to partition diversity</title>
    <dc:date>2018-02-04T13:44:32+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Diversity measurement underpins the study of biological systems, but measures used vary across disciplines. Despite their common use and broad utility, no unified framework has emerged for measuring, comparing and partitioning diversity. The introduction of information theory into diversity measurement has laid the foundations, but the framework is incomplete without the ability to partition diversity, which is central to fundamental questions across the life sciences: How do we prioritise communities for conservation? How do we identify reservoirs and sources of pathogenic organisms? How do we measure ecological disturbance arising from climate change? 
The lack of a common framework means that diversity measures from different fields have conflicting fundamental properties, allowing conclusions reached to depend on the measure chosen. This conflict is unnecessary and unhelpful. A mathematically consistent framework would transform disparate fields by delivering scientific insights in a common language. It would also allow the transfer of theoretical and practical developments between fields. 
We meet this need, providing a versatile unified framework for partitioning biological diversity. It encompasses any kind of similarity between individuals, from functional to genetic, allowing comparisons between qualitatively different kinds of diversity. Where existing partitioning measures aggregate information across the whole population, our approach permits the direct comparison of subcommunities, allowing us to pinpoint distinct, diverse or representative subcommunities and investigate population substructure. The framework is provided as a ready-to-use R package to easily test our approach.
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    <title>[1712.07910] The advantages of interdisciplinarity in modern science</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-28T14:43:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.07910</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As the increasing complexity of large-scale research requires the combined efforts of scientists with expertise in different fields, the advantages and costs of interdisciplinary scholarship have taken center stage in current debates on scientific production. Here we conduct a comparative assessment of the scientific success of specialized and interdisciplinary researchers in modern science. Drawing on comprehensive data sets on scientific production, we propose a two-pronged approach to interdisciplinarity. For each scientist, we distinguish between background interdisciplinarity, rooted in knowledge accumulated over time, and social interdisciplinarity, stemming from exposure to collaborators' knowledge. We find that, while abandoning specialization in favor of moderate degrees of background interdisciplinarity deteriorates performance, very interdisciplinary scientists outperform specialized ones, at all career stages. Moreover, successful scientists tend to intensify the heterogeneity of collaborators and to match the diversity of their network with the diversity of their background. Collaboration sustains performance by facilitating knowledge diffusion, acquisition and creation. Successful scientists tend to absorb a larger fraction of their collaborators' knowledge, and at a faster pace, than less successful ones. Collaboration also provides successful scientists with opportunities for the cross-fertilization of ideas and the synergistic creation of new knowledge. These results can inspire scientists to shape successful careers, research institutions to develop effective recruitment policies, and funding agencies to award grants of enhanced impact.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>big-science diversity system-of-professions interdisciplinarity collaboration sociology academic-culture a-way-of-being-thought-shallow-in-two-fields-at-once</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:a2e9bbdb5c66/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/fashion-is-political-period">
    <title>Fashion IS Political, Period | Teen Vogue</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-28T12:14:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.teenvogue.com/story/fashion-is-political-period</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We all know politics is about power and as feminist theory famously posits, the personal is political. While our clothing reflects who we are, in many ways it can also determine our ability to gain entry into influential spaces. Yet when women express an interest in fashion, it is often weaponized as a means of denying us access to political conversations—as if these interests were mutually exclusive.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>fashion sexism politics diversity activism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5ff4a9218291/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://feministkilljoys.com/2017/11/10/complaint-as-diversity-work/">
    <title>Complaint as Diversity Work | feministkilljoys</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-27T14:10:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://feministkilljoys.com/2017/11/10/complaint-as-diversity-work/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Another academic described to me how she participated in a complaint because she “wanted to help” the institution deal with a problem that had already been recognised because there had been other cases in which the problem came up. But the complaint was still treated as a problem; just as it had in the other cases. This is important because the organisation had developed new procedures as a result of earlier cases. The conduct surrounding the complaint had not been changed by a change to the procedure (2). A wall can be a matter of conduct. Conduct refers not simply to behavior; conduct derives from “leading.” Conduct is how a group is directed.

A complaint teaches about institutional direction because a complaint is often treated as misdirection by the institution. Another way of saying this: to locate a problem is to become the location of a problem. Diversity work: becoming the location of a problem. The accounts of becoming the problem in this study are descriptions of institutional violence. One person spoke of how “the viciousness started to kick in.” The institutional response to complaint is to treat the complaint not necessarily as malicious (although many complaint policies do in fact include warnings about malicious complaints) but as being motivated in some problematic way: as if the complainer has some other agenda such as a desire to target others or to damage the university or to elevate themselves. Simply put: the efforts to stop a complaint include attempts to discredit the complainer. Indeed many of those I have spoken to have spoken of how they became the complained about; a complaint can be redirected to the complainer; as if she says something is wrong because something is wrong with her (3).

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<dc:subject>diversity complaint cultural-dynamics organizational-behavior activism to-write-about rather-interesting making-a-difference framing-narratives</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:71ec8a7c25cb/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.03686">
    <title>[1606.03686] Does Having More Options Mean Harder to Reach Consensus?</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-09T16:55:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.03686</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We generalize a binary majority-vote model on adaptive networks to a plurality-vote counterpart. When opinions are uniformly distributed in the population of voters in the initial state, it is found that having more available opinions in the initial state actually accelerate the time to consensus. In particular, we investigate the three-state plurality-vote model. While time to consensus in two state model scales exponentially with population size N, for finite-size system, there is a non-zero probability that either the population reaches the consensus state in a time that is very short and independent of N (in the heterophily regime), or in a time that scales exponentially with N but is still much faster than two-state model.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>voting-models agent-based evolutionary-economics diversity rather-interesting to-write-about looking-to-see</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:c419855a7990/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10970">
    <title>[1703.10970] Diversity of preferences can increase collective welfare in sequential exploration problems</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-09T16:23:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10970</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In search engines, online marketplaces and other human-computer interfaces large collectives of individuals sequentially interact with numerous alternatives of varying quality. In these contexts, trial and error (exploration) is crucial for uncovering novel high-quality items or solutions, but entails a high cost for individual users. Self-interested decision makers, are often better off imitating the choices of individuals who have already incurred the costs of exploration. Although imitation makes sense at the individual level, it deprives the group of additional information that could have been gleaned by individual explorers. In this paper we show that in such problems, preference diversity can function as a welfare enhancing mechanism. It leads to a consistent increase in the quality of the consumed alternatives that outweighs the increased cost of search for the users.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>wisdom-of-crowds diversity exploration-and-exploitation collective-intelligence game-theory to-write-about</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:fcb54d19dfb0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05143">
    <title>[1704.05143] The Emergence of Canalization and Evolvability in an Open-Ended, Interactive Evolutionary System</title>
    <dc:date>2017-04-28T22:06:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05143</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Natural evolution has produced a tremendous diversity of functional organisms. Many believe an essential component of this process was the evolution of evolvability, whereby evolution speeds up its ability to innovate by generating a more adaptive pool of offspring. One hypothesized mechanism for evolvability is developmental canalization, wherein certain dimensions of variation become more likely to be traversed and others are prevented from being explored (e.g. offspring tend to have similarly sized legs, and mutations affect the length of both legs, not each leg individually). While ubiquitous in nature, canalization almost never evolves in computational simulations of evolution. Not only does that deprive us of in silico models in which to study the evolution of evolvability, but it also raises the question of which conditions give rise to this form of evolvability. Answering this question would shed light on why such evolvability emerged naturally and could accelerate engineering efforts to harness evolution to solve important engineering challenges. In this paper we reveal a unique system in which canalization did emerge in computational evolution. We document that genomes entrench certain dimensions of variation that were frequently explored during their evolutionary history. The genetic representation of these organisms also evolved to be highly modular and hierarchical, and we show that these organizational properties correlate with increased fitness. Interestingly, the type of computational evolutionary experiment that produced this evolvability was very different from traditional digital evolution in that there was no objective, suggesting that open-ended, divergent evolutionary processes may be necessary for the evolution of evolvability.
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<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:1a80f867fa2b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://points.datasociety.net/why-america-is-self-segregating-d881a39273ab#.q3w2zcr2e">
    <title>Why America is Self-Segregating</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-06T12:30:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://points.datasociety.net/why-america-is-self-segregating-d881a39273ab#.q3w2zcr2e</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If we want to develop a healthy democracy, we need a diverse and highly connected social fabric. This requires creating contexts in which the American public voluntarily struggles with the challenges of diversity to build bonds that will last a lifetime. We have been systematically undoing this, and the public has used new technological advances to make their lives easier by self-segregating. This has increased polarization, and we’re going to pay a heavy price for this going forward. Rather than focusing on what media enterprises can and should do, we need to focus instead on building new infrastructures for connection where people have a purpose for coming together across divisions. We need that social infrastructure just as much as we need bridges and roads.]]></description>
<dc:subject>diversity politics social-norms social-dynamics our-dissolution</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:fcb2ae879b5d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2016/09/capitalism-as-heterogeneous-set-of.html">
    <title>Understanding Society: Capitalism as a heterogeneous set of practices</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-18T15:33:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2016/09/capitalism-as-heterogeneous-set-of.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Or in other words, E-V advocates for innovative social change -- recognizing the potential in new forms and cultivating existing forms of economic activity. Marxism has been the impetus of much thinking about progressive change in the past century; but E-V argues that this perspective too is limited:
Marxism itself has become an obstacle to thinking creatively about the economy, not least because it is complicit in the discourse of the monolithic capitalist market economy that we must now move beyond.... Marx's labour theory of value ... tends to support the obsessive identification of capitalism with wage labour. As a consequence Marxists have failed to recognise that capitalism has developed new forms of making profit that do not fit with the classic Marxist model, including many that have emerged and prospered in the new digital economy. (45)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>political-economy sociology capitalism diversity rather-interesting multiobjective-optimization</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d22e27f1b345/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://suburbdad.blogspot.com/2016/12/my-inner-madisonian.html">
    <title>Confessions of a Community College Dean: My Inner Madisonian</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-17T17:59:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://suburbdad.blogspot.com/2016/12/my-inner-madisonian.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For me, the transferable insight is that Madison came up with a structural, rather than a psychological, solution.  People may be blinkered in all sorts of ways, but if you build with that in mind, you can compensate for it.  

What might that mean for search committees?

As a general rule, it means avoiding inbreeding.  When one faction controls a search entirely, its biases will go unchallenged.  In the case of faculty committees, having someone from outside the department on the committee can bring fresh eyes.  In the second round, I like to include the campus diversity officer in the interviews; she brings a needed perspective, and often picks up on things that the rest of us don’t.  At any level, more sets of eyes are likelier to get a full picture than fewer.  

I’m not looking to perfect anybody.  I’m looking for structures and processes that assume the presence of imperfections, but that cancel them out.  Yes, there are some basic rules of the road, and they’re there for good reasons.  But I’m much more comfortable -- both ethically and practically -- focusing on conduct than on subconscious attitudes.  And I’m just Aristotelian enough to think that over time, habits inform and even shape attitudes.  Do something long enough and it starts to seem normal.  Set up processes and structures that encourage productive behavior, and over time, productive attitudes are likely to follow.  But even if they don’t, you’ll still get productive behavior, which is what you really want anyway.

Madison’s solution is a little bit messy, but it has shown itself to be durable.  As long as we’re taking a new look at the founders anyway, let’s give him a moment, too.  Hamilton may have written more of the Federalist Papers, but Madison wrote the ones we remember.
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<dc:subject>diversity government academic-culture rather-interesting publics wisdom-of-crowds</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:05344a925e2b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2016/12/empire-of-tolerance.html">
    <title>3quarksdaily: Empire of Tolerance</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-17T14:42:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2016/12/empire-of-tolerance.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Many might think this eccentric in the extreme, until we learn that a runaway 18th-century best seller in the American colonies was in fact a history of “Genghizcan the Great,” by a Frenchman, Pétis de la Croix, and that it was a book devoured by both Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Moreover, the quoted rubric of the Mongol and United States laws is uncannily similar: Among other passages, Mongol law forbids anyone to “disturb or molest any person on account of religion,” and Jefferson, after reading its strictures, went on to suggest in his Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, a precursor of the First Amendment, that “no man shall . . . suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief.” The link between Genghis and Jefferson may seem tenuous to the point of absurdity; but Weatherford argues his case very well — and in doing so offers further amplification of the notion that so many of the West’s claimed achievements in fact have their true origins in the East, and that countries like Mongolia, far from being, as those hapless British diplomats once believed, at the utter ends of the earth, are very much more central than most of us nowadays like to imagine. In a sense we are all Mongols; we are all one.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>history diversity revisionism to-read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:051efc3f5c7f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://aeon.co/essays/dewey-knew-how-to-teach-democracy-and-we-must-not-forget-it">
    <title>Dewey knew how to teach democracy and we must not forget it | Aeon Essays</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-02T11:23:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://aeon.co/essays/dewey-knew-how-to-teach-democracy-and-we-must-not-forget-it</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dewey put forth the philosophy of education that would change the world in Democracy and Education, a book that turns 100 this year. Dewey’s influence is far-reaching, but his pedagogy has been under assault for at least a generation. The United States Department of Education report A Nation at Risk (1983) signalled the rise of the anti-Dewey front, under the somewhat misleading name of the ‘education reform’ movement. The report warns that other countries will soon surpass the US in wealth and power because ‘a rising tide of mediocrity’ engulfs schools in the US. The problem, according to the report, is that US education is ‘an often incoherent, outdated patchwork quilt’. The education reform movement aims to replace that ‘patchwork quilt’ – mostly made by local school boards, teachers and parents – with a more uniform system based on national standards.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>dewey public-policy education diversity democracy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03093">
    <title>[1602.03093] The effect of environmental stochasticity on species richness in neutral communities</title>
    <dc:date>2016-02-17T11:27:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03093</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Environmental stochasticity is known to be a destabilizing factor, increasing abundance fluctuations and extinction rates of populations. However, the stability of a community may benefit from the differential response of species to environmental variations due to the storage effect. This paper provides a systematic and comprehensive discussion of these two contradicting tendencies, using the metacommunity version of the recently proposed time-average neutral model of biodiversity which incorporates environmental stochasticity and demographic noise and allows for extinction and speciation. We show that the incorporation of demographic noise into the model is essential to its applicability, yielding realistic behavior of the system when fitness variations are relatively weak. The dependence of species richness on the strength of environmental stochasticity changes sign when the correlation time of the environmental variations increases. This transition marks the point at which the storage effect no longer succeeds in stabilizing the community.
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:theoretical-biology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:population-biology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:to-write-about"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.2086">
    <title>[1404.2086] Cascades of Regression Tree Fields for Image Restoration</title>
    <dc:date>2015-02-12T11:26:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.2086</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Conditional random fields (CRFs) are popular discriminative models for computer vision and have been successfully applied in the domain of image restoration, especially to image denoising. For image deblurring, however, discriminative approaches have been mostly lacking. We posit two reasons for this: First, the blur kernel is often only known at test time, requiring any discriminative approach to cope with considerable variability. Second, given this variability it is quite difficult to construct suitable features for discriminative prediction. To address these challenges we first show a connection between common half-quadratic inference for generative image priors and Gaussian CRFs. Based on this analysis, we then propose a cascade model for image restoration that consists of a Gaussian CRF at each stage. Each stage of our cascade is semi-parametric, i.e. it depends on the instance-specific parameters of the restoration problem, such as the blur kernel. We train our model by loss minimization with synthetically generated training data. Our experiments show that when applied to non-blind image deblurring, the proposed approach is efficient and yields state-of-the-art restoration quality on images corrupted with synthetic and real blur. Moreover, we demonstrate its suitability for image denoising, where we achieve competitive results for grayscale and color images.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>image-processing algorithms generative-art rather-interesting statistics nudge-targets kernel-methods diversity consider:rediscovery consider:performance-measures</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:15cae3cbfd26/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:algorithms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:generative-art"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:statistics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:kernel-methods"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:consider:rediscovery"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:consider:performance-measures"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.7427">
    <title>[1412.7427] Follow the Leader: Herding Behavior in Heterogeneous Populations</title>
    <dc:date>2015-02-12T10:13:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.7427</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here we study the emergence of spontaneous leadership in large populations. In standard models of opinion dynamics, herding behavior is only obeyed at the local scale due to the interaction of single agents with their neighbors; while at the global scale, such models are governed by purely diffusive processes. Surprisingly, in this paper we show that the combination of a strong separation of time scales within the population and a hierarchical organization of the influences of some agents on the others induces a phase transition between a purely diffusive phase, as in the standard case, and a herding phase where a fraction of the agents self-organize and lead the global opinion of the whole population.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>collective-intelligence swarms behavioral-finance agent-based rather-interesting diversity nudge-targets emergent-design</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:3d2f77c732f4/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:behavioral-finance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:agent-based"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2092">
    <title>[1402.2092] Near-Optimally Teaching the Crowd to Classify</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-14T13:42:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2092</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[How should we present training examples to learners to teach them classification rules? This is a natural problem when training workers for crowdsourcing labeling tasks, and is also motivated by challenges in data-driven online education. We propose a natural stochastic model of the learners, modeling them as randomly switching among hypotheses based on observed feedback. We then develop STRICT, an efficient algorithm for selecting examples to teach to workers. Our solution greedily maximizes a submodular surrogate objective function in order to select examples to show to the learners. We prove that our strategy is competitive with the optimal teaching policy. Moreover, for the special case of linear separators, we prove that an exponential reduction in error probability can be achieved. Our experiments on simulated workers as well as three real image annotation tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk show the effectiveness of our teaching algorithm.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>wisdom-of-crowds diversity machine-learning statistics rather-interesting performance-space-analysis nudge-targets random-forests</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:e303de378c31/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:machine-learning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:statistics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:performance-space-analysis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:random-forests"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://feministkilljoys.com/">
    <title>feministkilljoys | killing joy as a world making project</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-14T13:00:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://feministkilljoys.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Once on twitter I pointed out that an author had mainly cited other white men. He agreed with my description of the pattern but said that the pattern “was in the traditions that had influenced him.” To be influenced by a tradition is to be citing white men. Citing; reciting;  an endless retrospective. White men as a well-trodden path; the more we tread that way the more we go that way. To move forward you follow the traces left behind of those who came before. But in following these traces, in participating in their becoming brighter, becoming lighter, other traces fade out, becoming shadows, places unlit; eventually they disappear. Women too, people of colour too, might cite white men: to be you have to be in relation to white men (to twist a Fanonian point). Not to cite white men is not to exist; or at least not to exist within this or that field. When you exercise these logics, you might come to exist, by writing out another history, another way of explaining your existence. If to cite is to wipe out your history, what then?

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<dc:subject>essay very-good academic-culture diversity all-culture-as-well norms-and-the-sense-of-them the-mangle-in-practice to-remember</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:71f3e054bd03/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:very-good"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:academic-culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:all-culture-as-well"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:norms-and-the-sense-of-them"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:the-mangle-in-practice"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:to-remember"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.1307">
    <title>[1409.1307] Using Modern Technologies to Capture and Share Indigenous Astronomical Knowledge</title>
    <dc:date>2014-11-07T11:39:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.1307</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Indigenous Knowledge is important for Indigenous communities across the globe and for the advancement of our general scientific knowledge. In particular, Indigenous astronomical knowledge integrates many aspects of Indigenous Knowledge, including seasonal calendars, navigation, food economics, law, ceremony, and social structure. We aim to develop innovative ways of capturing, managing, and disseminating Indigenous astronomical knowledge for Indigenous communities and the general public for the future. Capturing, managing, and disseminating this knowledge in the digital environment poses a number of challenges, which we aim to address using a collaborative project involving experts in the higher education, library, and industry sectors. Using Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope and Rich Interactive Narratives technologies, we propose to develop software, media design, and archival management solutions to allow Indigenous communities to share their astronomical knowledge with the world on their terms and in a culturally sensitive manner.
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<dc:subject>diversity anthropology archiving ontology rather-interesting</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:7ca87698feb5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:anthropology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:archiving"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:ontology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:rather-interesting"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.7811">
    <title>[1406.7811] An optimization algorithm for multimodal functions inspired by collective animal behavior</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-25T12:47:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.7811</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Interest in multimodal function optimization is expanding rapidly since real world optimization problems often demand locating multiple optima within a search space. This article presents a new multimodal optimization algorithm named as the Collective Animal Behavior (CAB). Animal groups, such as schools of fish, flocks of birds, swarms of locusts and herds of wildebeest, exhibit a variety of behaviors including swarming about a food source, milling around a central location or migrating over large distances in aligned groups. These collective behaviors are often advantageous to groups, allowing them to increase their harvesting efficiency to follow better migration routes, to improve their aerodynamic and to avoid predation. In the proposed algorithm, searcher agents are a group of animals which interact to each other based on the biological laws of collective motion. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is capable of finding global and local optima of benchmark multimodal optimization problems with a higher efficiency in comparison to other methods reported in the literature.
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<dc:subject>optimization genetic-algorithm horse-races multimodal-optimization local-optima diversity metaheuristics nudge-targets</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:519d9dc722e0/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:genetic-algorithm"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:horse-races"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:multimodal-optimization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:local-optima"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:metaheuristics"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.7551">
    <title>[1406.7551] Collective Intelligence in Citizen Science -- A Study of Performers and Talkers</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-28T11:20:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.7551</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The recent emergence of online citizen science is illustrative of an efficient and effective means to harness the crowd in order to achieve a range of scientific discoveries. Fundamentally, citizen science projects draw upon crowds of non-expert volunteers to complete short Tasks, which can vary in domain and complexity. However, unlike most human-computational systems, participants in these systems, the `citizen scientists' are volunteers, whereby no incentives, financial or otherwise, are offered. Furthermore, encouraged by citizen science platforms such as Zooniverse, online communities have emerged, providing them with an environment to discuss, share ideas, and solve problems. In fact, it is the result of these forums that has enabled a number of scientific discoveries to be made. In this paper we explore the phenomenon of collective intelligence via the relationship between the activities of online citizen science communities and the discovery of scientific knowledge. We perform a cross-project analysis of ten Zooniverse citizen science projects and analyse the behaviour of users with regards to their Task completion activity and participation in discussion and discover collective behaviour amongst highly active users. Whilst our findings have implications for future citizen science design, we also consider the wider implications for understanding collective intelligence research in general.
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<dc:subject>collective-intelligence crowdsourcing zooniverse sociology social-networks diversity rather-interesting community</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f2db5aaea254/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:crowdsourcing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:zooniverse"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:sociology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-networks"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2195">
    <title>[1409.2195] Analyzing the Language of Food on Social Media</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-14T12:19:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.2195</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We investigate the predictive power behind the language of food on social media. We collect a corpus of over three million food-related posts from Twitter and demonstrate that many latent population characteristics can be directly predicted from this data: overweight rate, diabetes rate, political leaning, and home geographical location of authors. For all tasks, our language-based models significantly outperform the majority-class baselines. Performance is further improved with more complex natural language processing, such as topic modeling. We analyze which textual features have most predictive power for these datasets, providing insight into the connections between the language of food, geographic locale, and community characteristics. Lastly, we design and implement an online system for real-time query and visualization of the dataset. Visualization tools, such as geo-referenced heatmaps, semantics-preserving wordclouds and temporal histograms, allow us to discover more complex, global patterns mirrored in the language of food.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>social-networks digital-humanities food experiment diversity rather-interesting</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:283b5206ce0e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:digital-humanities"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:food"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:experiment"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2014/09/08/006940">
    <title>Convergent Evolution During Local Adaptation to Patchy Landscapes | bioRxiv</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-13T12:10:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2014/09/08/006940</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Species often encounter, and adapt to, many patches of locally similar environmental conditions across their range. Such adaptation can occur through convergent evolution as different alleles arise and spread in different patches, or through the spread of alleles by migration acting to synchronize adaptation across the species. The tension between the two reflects the degree of constraint imposed on evolution by the underlying genetic architecture versus how how effectively selection acts to inhibit the geographic spread of locally adapted alleles. This paper studies a model of the balance between these two routes to adaptation in continuous environments with patchy selection pressures. We address the following questions: How long does it take for a new, locally adapted allele to appear in a patch of habitat where it is favored through new mutation? Or, through migration from another, already adapted patch? Which is more likely to occur, as a function of distance between the patches? How can we tell which has occurred, i.e.\ what population genetic signal is left by the spread of migrant alleles and how long does this signal persist for? To answer these questions we decompose the migration--selection equilibrium surrounding an already adapted patch into families of migrant alleles, in particular treating those rare families that reach new patches as spatial branching processes. This provides a way to understand the role of geographic separation between patches in promoting convergent adaptation and the genomic signals it leaves behind. We illustrate these ideas using the convergent evolution of cryptic coloration in the rock pocket mouse, Chaetodipus intermedius, as an empirical example.

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<dc:subject>fitness-landscapes evolution ecology diversity models nudge-targets consider:recognizers wondering-about-archiving</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d66601b03764/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:evolution"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:ecology"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.1042">
    <title>[1409.1042] Collective motions of heterogeneous swarms</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-07T10:59:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.1042</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The emerging collective motions of swarms of interacting agents are a subject of great interest in application areas ranging from biology to physics and robotics. In this paper, we conduct a careful analysis of the collective dynamics of a swarm of self-propelled heterogeneous, delay-coupled agents. We show the emergence of collective motion patterns and segregation of populations of agents with different dynamic properties; both of these behaviors (pattern formation and segregation) emerge naturally in our model, which is based on self-propulsion and attractive pairwise interactions between agents. We derive the bifurcation structure for emergence of different swarming behaviors in the mean field as a function of physical parameters and verify these results through simulation.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>self-organization swarms boids artificial-life simulation nudge-targets diversity consider:mixed-solution-teams</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f2124ae64a04/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:boids"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:artificial-life"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.5959">
    <title>[1403.5959] Noise reduction in coarse bifurcation analysis of stochastic agent-based models: an example of consumer lock-in</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-07T10:46:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.5959</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We investigate coarse equilibrium states of a fine-scale, stochastic agent-based model of consumer lock-in in a duopolistic market. In the model, agents decide on their next purchase based on a combination of their personal preference and their neighbours' opinions. For agents with independent identically-distributed parameters and all-to-all coupling, we derive an analytic approximate coarse evolution-map for the expected average purchase. We then study the emergence of coarse fronts when spatial segregation is present in the relative perceived quality of products. We develop a novel Newton-Krylov method that is able to compute accurately and efficiently coarse fixed points when the underlying fine-scale dynamics is stochastic. The main novelty of the algorithm is in the elimination of the noise that is generated when estimating Jacobian-vector products using time-integration of perturbed initial conditions. We present numerical results that demonstrate the convergence properties of the numerical method, and use the method to show that macroscopic fronts in this model destabilise at a coarse symmetry-breaking bifurcation.
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<dc:subject>evolutionary-economics agent-based simulation diversity tipping-points algorithms nudge-targets artificial-life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d8c363749a47/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.4912">
    <title>[1408.4912] Specialization and Bet-Hedging in Heterogeneous Populations</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-06T12:55:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.4912</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Phenotypic heterogeneity is a strategy commonly used by bacteria to rapidly adapt to changing environmental conditions. Here, we study the interplay between phenotypic heterogeneity and genetic diversity in spatially extended populations. By analyzing the spatio-temporal dynamics, we show that the level of mobility and the type of competition qualitatively influence the persistence of phenotypic heterogeneity. While direct competition generally promotes persistence of phenotypic heterogeneity, specialization dominates in models with indirect competition irrespective of the degree of mobility.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>diversity evolutionary-economics agent-based emergence strategy simulation nudge-targets consider:representation</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:8d74ad8f59b5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:evolutionary-economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:agent-based"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:emergence"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:strategy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:consider:representation"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.0522">
    <title>[1310.0522] EVOC: A Computer Model of the Evolution of Culture</title>
    <dc:date>2014-09-05T12:25:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.0522</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[EVOC is a computer model of the EVOlution of Culture. It consists of neural network based agents that invent ideas for actions, and imitate neighbors' actions. EVOC replicates using a different fitness function the results obtained with an earlier model (MAV), including (1) an increase in mean fitness of actions, and (2) an increase and then decrease in the diversity of actions. Diversity of actions is positively correlated with number of needs, population size and density, and with the erosion of borders between populations. Slowly eroding borders maximize diversity, fostering specialization followed by sharing of fit actions. Square (as opposed to toroidal) worlds also exhibit higher diversity. Introducing a leader that broadcasts its actions throughout the population increases the fitness of actions but reduces diversity; these effects diminish the more leaders there are. Low density populations have less fit ideas but broadcasting diminishes this effect.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>artificial-life culture simulation multiobjective-optimization diversity self-organization</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:48af06edddf4/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:multiobjective-optimization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:self-organization"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2494">
    <title>[1402.2494] Stock portfolio structure of individual investors infers future trading behavior</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-31T12:22:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.2494</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Although the understanding of and motivation behind individual trading behavior is an important puzzle in finance, little is known about the connection between an investor's portfolio structure and her trading behavior in practice. In this paper, we investigate the relation between what stocks investors hold, and what stocks they buy, and show that investors with similar portfolio structures to a great extent trade in a similar way. With data from the central register of shareholdings in Sweden, we model the market in a similarity network, by considering investors as nodes, connected with links representing portfolio similarity. From the network, we find groups of investors that not only identify different investment strategies, but also represent groups of individual investors trading in a similar way. These findings suggest that the stock portfolios of investors hold meaningful information, which could be used to earn a better understanding of stock market dynamics.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>finance portfolio-theory diversity clustering models network-theory social-norms nudge-targets experimental-economics markets consider:simulation</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5bba9f326e3d/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:finance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:portfolio-theory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:clustering"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:models"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:network-theory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:social-norms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:experimental-economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:markets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:consider:simulation"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0207">
    <title>[1401.0207] Urban Mobility Scaling: Lessons from `Little Data'</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-09T12:04:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.0207</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Recent mobility scaling research, using new data sources, often relies on aggregated data alone. Hence, these studies face difficulties characterizing the influence of factors such as transportation mode on mobility patterns. This paper attempts to complement this research by looking at a category-rich mobility data set. In order to shed light on the impact of categories, as a case study, we use conventionally collected German mobility data. In contrast to `check-in'-based data, our results are not biased by Euclidean distance approximations. In our analysis, we show that aggregation can hide crucial differences between trip length distributions, when subdivided by categories. For example, we see that on an urban scale (0 to ~15 km), walking, versus driving, exhibits a highly different scaling exponent, thus universality class. Moreover, mode share and trip length are responsive to day-of-week and time-of-day. For example, in Germany, although driving is relatively less frequent on Sundays than on Wednesdays, trips seem to be longer. In addition, our work may shed new light on the debate between distance-based and intervening-opportunity mechanisms affecting mobility patterns, since mode may be chosen both according to trip length and urban form.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>aggregation statistics it's-more-complicated-than-you-think models diversity experiment interesting</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:9fc92fff755b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:statistics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:it's-more-complicated-than-you-think"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:models"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:experiment"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.6354">
    <title>[1402.6354] A tug-of-war between driver and passenger mutations in cancer and other adaptive processes</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-06T11:25:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.6354</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cancer progression is an example of a rapid adaptive process where evolving new traits is essential for survival and requires a high mutation rate. Precancerous cells acquire a few key mutations that drive rapid population growth and carcinogenesis. Cancer genomics demonstrates that these few 'driver' mutations occur alongside thousands of random 'passenger' mutations-a natural consequence of cancer's elevated mutation rate. Some passengers can be deleterious to cancer cells, yet have been largely ignored in cancer research. In population genetics, however, the accumulation of mildly deleterious mutations has been shown to cause population meltdown. Here we develop a stochastic population model where beneficial drivers engage in a tug-of-war with frequent mildly deleterious passengers. These passengers present a barrier to cancer progression that is described by a critical population size, below which most lesions fail to progress, and a critical mutation rate, above which cancers meltdown. We find support for the model in cancer age-incidence and cancer genomics data that also allow us to estimate the fitness advantage of drivers and fitness costs of passengers. We identify two regimes of adaptive evolutionary dynamics and use these regimes to rationalize successes and failures of different treatment strategies. We find that a tumor's load of deleterious passengers can explain previously paradoxical treatment outcomes and suggest that it could potentially serve as a biomarker of response to mutagenic therapies. Collective deleterious effect of passengers is currently an unexploited therapeutic target. We discuss how their effects might be exacerbated by both current and future therapies.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>theoretical-biology population-biology cancer simulation diversity nudge-targets Wright-it-ain't</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:2f931bc93f2d/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:theoretical-biology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:population-biology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cancer"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Wright-it-ain't"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.pornokitsch.com/2014/02/friday-five-five-works-of-early-speculative-fiction-by-african-american-authors.html">
    <title>Friday Five: Five Works of Early Speculative Fiction by African American Authors - pornokitsch</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-27T11:59:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pornokitsch.com/2014/02/friday-five-five-works-of-early-speculative-fiction-by-african-american-authors.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[American speculative fiction has always had a diversity problem, but it has never been a whites-only genre. Long before Samuel R. Delany, N. K. Jemisin, or Janelle Monae, African Americans have been using speculative tropes to examine our world and imagine another.

So here, for your reading pleasure, are five works of pre-1940 speculative fiction by African Americans, ranging from eerie regionalist tales; to hidden empire polemics; to technocratic pulp adventures.

To be clear, this list of five (well, six) is neither exhaustive nor all that representative, but rather idiosyncratic - these are five examples that I’ve read. So I’ve left off Martin Delany’s Blake; or the Huts of America (1859/1861-2) –with its speculation about a mass slave rebellion in Cuba – for the simple fact that I’ve never read it.

In short: you should only use these five as a jumping off point - and there are even more to find.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>science-fiction nanohistory diversity race</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b99c7c461280/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nanohistory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:race"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.4672">
    <title>[1401.4672] Parallel versus Sequential Update and the Evolution of Cooperation with the Assistance of Emotional Strategies</title>
    <dc:date>2014-04-07T11:59:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.4672</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Our study contributes to the debate on the evolution of cooperation in the single-shot Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) played on networks. We construct a model in which individuals are connected with positive and negative ties. Some agents play sign-dependent strategies that use the sign of the relation as a shorthand for determining appropriate action toward the opponent. In the context of our model in which network topology, agent strategic types and relational signs coevolve, the presence of sign-dependent strategies catalyzes the evolution of cooperation. We highlight how the success of cooperation depends on a crucial aspect of implementation: whether we apply parallel or sequential strategy update. Parallel updating, with averaging of payoffs across interactions in the social neighborhood, supports cooperation in a much wider set of parameter values than sequential updating. Our results cast doubts about the realism and generalizability of models that claim to explain the evolution of cooperation but implicitly assume parallel updating.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>evolutionary-economics agent-based prisoners'-dilemma diversity nudge-targets consider:interaction-maps</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:dffa1a3cede0/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:evolutionary-economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:agent-based"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:prisoners'-dilemma"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:consider:interaction-maps"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.4753">
    <title>[1310.4753] Society Functions Best with an Intermediate Level of Creativity</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-30T11:46:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.4753</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In a society, a proportion of the individuals can benefit from creativity without being creative themselves by copying the creators. This paper uses an agent-based model of cultural evolution to investigate how society is affected by different levels of individual creativity. We performed a time series analysis of the mean fitness of ideas across the artificial society varying both the percentage of creators, C, and how creative they are, p using two discounting methods. Both analyses revealed a valley in the adaptive landscape, indicating a tradeoff between C and p. The results suggest that excess creativity at the individual level can be detrimental at the level of the society because creators invest in unproven ideas at the expense of propagating proven ideas.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>complexology evolutionary-economics goldilocks-point diversity nudge-targets consider:stress-testing consider:multiobjective-stance</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d693b50673b8/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:complexology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:evolutionary-economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:goldilocks-point"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:consider:stress-testing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:consider:multiobjective-stance"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1809">
    <title>[1312.1809] Hierarchical Bayesian analysis of somatic mutation data in cancer</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-22T12:48:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.1809</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Identifying genes underlying cancer development is critical to cancer biology and has important implications across prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Cancer sequencing studies aim at discovering genes with high frequencies of somatic mutations in specific types of cancer, as these genes are potential driving factors (drivers) for cancer development. We introduce a hierarchical Bayesian methodology to estimate gene-specific mutation rates and driver probabilities from somatic mutation data and to shed light on the overall proportion of drivers among sequenced genes. Our methodology applies to different experimental designs used in practice, including one-stage, two-stage and candidate gene designs. Also, sample sizes are typically small relative to the rarity of individual mutations. Via a shrinkage method borrowing strength from the whole genome in assessing individual genes, we reinforce inference and address the selection effects induced by multistage designs. Our simulation studies show that the posterior driver probabilities provide a nearly unbiased false discovery rate estimate. We apply our methods to pancreatic and breast cancer data, contrast our results to previous estimates and provide estimated proportions of drivers for these two types of cancer.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bioinformatics cancer-biology systems-biology diversity nudge-targets statistics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f665152bef66/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:bioinformatics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cancer-biology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:systems-biology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:statistics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.0657">
    <title>[1309.0657] Human Genome Variation and the concept of Genotype Networks</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-22T12:47:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.0657</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Genotype networks are a method used in systems biology to study the "innovability" of a set of genotypes having the same phenotype. In the past they have been applied to determine the genetic heterogeneity, and stability to mutations, of systems such as metabolic networks and RNA folds. Recently, they have been the base for re-conciliating the two neutralist and selectionist schools on evolution. 
Here, we adapted the concept of genotype networks to the study of population genetics data, applying them to the 1000 Genomes dataset. We used networks composed of short haplotypes of Single Nucleotide Variants (SNV), and defined phenotypes as the presence or absence of a haplotype in a human population. We used coalescent simulations to determine if the number of samples in the 1000 Genomes dataset is large enough to represent the genetic variation of real populations. The result is a scan of how properties related to the genetic heterogeneity and stability to mutations are distributed along the human genome. We found that genes involved in acquired immunity, such as some HLA and MHC genes, tend to have the most heterogeneous and connected networks; and we have also found that there is a small, but significant difference between networks of coding regions and those of non-coding regions, suggesting that coding regions are both richer in genotype diversity, and more stable to mutations. Together, the work presented here may constitute a starting point for applying genotype networks to study genome variation, as larger datasets of next-generation data will become availa
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bioinformatics diversity networks population-biology GWAS interesting</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:0a9ebdbd2d72/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:networks"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:population-biology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:GWAS"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:interesting"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com/2014/01/relevance-and-ignorance.html">
    <title>relevance and ignorance - Text Patterns - The New Atlantis</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-24T12:37:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com/2014/01/relevance-and-ignorance.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is all phrased light-heartedly, but I wonder if that tone isn’t at least a little misleading: Thurber really does seem afraid of getting left behind. And he’s not the only one: it’s pretty clear that in writing The Circle Dave Eggers was so eager to make a Socially Relevant Intervention about tech companies that he didn’t bother to learn how they actually work. So what we have hear is an urgency to be heard coupled with a need to be relevant. The result: social commentary made by people who have nothing but vague, uninformed speculations to guide their writing. This is how whole books become indistinguishable from the average blog comment.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>criticism cultural-norms diversity worklife mindfulness ignorance stereotypes</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:c5f8a61b9464/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:criticism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-norms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:worklife"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:mindfulness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:ignorance"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:stereotypes"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8236">
    <title>[1310.8236] Design and analysis of experiments linking on-line drilling methods to improvements in knowledge</title>
    <dc:date>2014-01-14T12:12:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8236</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An on-line drilling system, the tutor-web, has been developed and used for teaching mathematics and statistics. The system was used in a basic course in calculus including 182 students. The students were requested to answer quiz questions in the tutor-web and therefore monitored continuously during the semester. Data available are grades on a status exam conducted in the beginning of the course, a final grade and data gathered in the tutor-web system. A classification of the students is proposed using the data gathered in the system; a Good student should be able to solve a problem quickly and get it right, the "diligent" hard-working Learner may take longer to get the right answer, a guessing (Poor) student will not take long to get the wrong answer and the remaining (Unclassified) apparent non-learning students take long to get the wrong answer, resulting in a simple classification GLUP. The (Poor) students were found to show the least improvement, defined as the change in grade from the status to the final exams, while the Learners were found to improve the most. The results are used to demonstrate how further experiments are needed and can be designed as well as to indicate how a system needs to be further developed to accommodate such experiments.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>pedagogy cyborg-teaching adaptive-control statistics consider-your-assumptions classification data-analysis-by-ignoring-detail diversity public-policy planning oh-dear</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:f19da98e9465/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cyborg-teaching"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:adaptive-control"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:statistics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:consider-your-assumptions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:classification"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:data-analysis-by-ignoring-detail"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:public-policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:planning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:oh-dear"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2013/11/07/epistemic-humility/">
    <title>Epistemic humility — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-16T19:17:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2013/11/07/epistemic-humility/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My worry is that this category of experiences, differences, practices, and other features of human life that we cannot understand without first-person experience, is much larger than we generally tend to assume. And that as a consequence, we believe that we know much more than we actually do know. And, as a further consequence, that we too often are wrong in our judgements of aspects of the lives of people significantly different than ourselves.

Somehow it strikes me as wise, and possibly even as a precondition for social justice, if we would rehabilitate epistemic humility at the core of our educational and social practices.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>empathy diversity advice</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:17666d670cb5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:advice"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6767">
    <title>[1310.6767] Curiosity Based Exploration for Learning Terrain Models</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-03T12:19:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1310.6767</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We present a robotic exploration technique in which the goal is to learn to a visual model and be able to distinguish between different terrains and other visual components in an unknown environment. We use ROST, a realtime online spatiotemporal topic modeling framework to model these terrains using the observations made by the robot, and then use an information theoretic path planning technique to define the exploration path. We conduct experiments with aerial view and underwater datasets with millions of observations and varying path lengths, and find that paths that are biased towards locations with high topic perplexity produce better terrain models with high discriminative power, especially with paths of length close to the diameter of the world.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>algorithms exploration robotics curiosity diversity nudge-targets learning-from-data planning</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:64d8485d0abd/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:algorithms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:exploration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:robotics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:curiosity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:learning-from-data"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:planning"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.3426">
    <title>[1309.3426] Confinement-induced shape transitions in multilamellar vesicles</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-17T17:32:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1309.3426</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Morphologies of a vesicle confined in a spherical vesicle were explored experimentally by fast confocal laser microscopy and numerically by a dynamically-triangulated membrane model with area-difference elasticity. The confinement was found to induce several novel shapes of the inner vesicles, that had been never observed in unilamellar vesicles: double and quadruple stomatocytes, slit vesicle, and vesicles of two or three compartments with various shapes. The simulations reproduced the experimental results very well and some of the shape transitions can be understood by a simple theoretical model for axisymmetric shapes.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>ultrastructure cell-physiology biological-engineering diversity novel-structures nudge-targets simulation consider:design-patterns consider:stress-testing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:41d879a66048/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:ultrastructure"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cell-physiology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:biological-engineering"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:novel-structures"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:simulation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:consider:design-patterns"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:consider:stress-testing"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1541">
    <title>[1302.1541] Algorithm Portfolio Design: Theory vs. Practice</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-25T11:35:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1541</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Stochastic algorithms are among the best for solving computationally hard search and reasoning problems. The runtime of such procedures is characterized by a random variable. Different algorithms give rise to different probability distributions. One can take advantage of such differences by combining several algorithms into a portfolio, and running them in parallel or interleaving them on a single processor. We provide a detailed evaluation of the portfolio approach on distributions of hard combinatorial search problems. We show under what conditions the protfolio approach can have a dramatic computational advantage over the best traditional methods.]]></description>
<dc:subject>diversity aggregation models portfolio-theory statistics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:49739312d995/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:aggregation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:models"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:portfolio-theory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:statistics"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7335">
    <title>[1210.7335] Professional diversity and the productivity of cities</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-10T21:05:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7335</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The relationships between diversity, productivity and scale determine much of the structure and robustness of complex biological and social systems. While arguments for the link between specialization and productivity are common, diversity has often been invoked as a hedging strategy, allowing systems to evolve in response to environmental change. Despite their general appeal, these arguments have not typically produced quantitative predictions for optimal levels of functional diversity consistent with observations. One important reason why these relationships have resisted formalization is the idiosyncratic nature of diversity measures, which depend on given classification schemes. Here, we address these issues by analyzing the statistics of professions in cities and show how their probability distribution takes a universal scale-invariant form, common to all cities, obtained in the limit of infinite resolution of given taxonomies. We propose a model that generates the form and parameters of this distribution via the introduction of new occupations at a rate leading to individual specialization subject to the preservation of access to overall function via their ego social networks. This perspective unifies ideas about the importance of network structure in ecology and of innovation as a recombinatory process with economic concepts of productivity gains obtained through the division and coordination of labor, stimulated by scale.]]></description>
<dc:subject>city-planning diversity economics cultural-dynamics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:beb1299c53c6/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:city-planning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://stoweboyd.com/post/44286116933/community-is-plural">
    <title>Stowe Boyd, Community is plural.</title>
    <dc:date>2013-03-01T12:33:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://stoweboyd.com/post/44286116933/community-is-plural</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The emergent properties of social networks — like knowledge creation, innovation, and sense making — may be the greatest leverage a company has, so allowing more communities within a single company will lead to higher levels of innovation and adaptation. Rather than a monolithic organization trained to operate as a single unit based on a single fixed set of rules, we are now confronted with an economic context where it’s more rational to have a spectrum of communities operating independently, inventing and rewriting their own rulebooks along the way.]]></description>
<dc:subject>community cultural-engineering management diversity</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:c533431737b3/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:community"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-engineering"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:management"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3826">
    <title>The Quiet Wikideath of BBS History « ASCII by Jason Scott</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-12T13:34:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3826</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For years I’ve taken the following groundbreaking approach with BBS history: Snag as much of it as I can from as many sources as I can. Pull together data and documents that are insights into what happened. Interview people who were there. Transfer video recordings and audio recordings and scan documents and make it all into online actuality. You can debate the notability of Space Potato BBS all day, or you can scan and transfer all the Space Potato BBS material and put it somewhere where we don’t get a straw poll every harvest moon to decide to burn it to the ground.

Oh, the faces of the Wiki-faithful when I’m like this in person (and I am, in fact, like this in person). The concerned and sourpuss face when they mention something about Wikipedia and my response is fundamental distaste. The dropped mouth, the sad eyes – it’s like eating delicious key lime pie to me. Seriously: Have fun all day, folks, but I’m not going to put on the party hat and act like this birthday cake isn’t full of horse poop. Nice decorations, though.

No, the solution is to stop thinking of Wikipedia as the Source, the Big Stage, the Final Arbiter. It will fail at this and it will always fail at this as long as people get to undo the work of many others merely by being a persistent keyboard-pushing douchebag. Even on Reddit, when someone informed or at least long-winded and opinion-filled shows up, they can only downvote them into greyness, not delete them entirely.

No, primary sources. Mark my words. 2013 is the year I am scanning and duping in terabytes, terabytes of BBS and home computer material. Trust me – the world is going to get a lot more of what happened in that period.

Let Wikipedia do an article on THAT, is my advice. We’ll get by until then.

]]></description>
<dc:subject>wikinomics cultural-dynamics archiving diversity</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:b8b4e0765bcf/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:wikinomics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:archiving"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2096">
    <title>[1209.2096] A genetic variant near olfactory receptor genes influences cilantro preference</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-23T11:27:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2096</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The leaves of the Coriandrum sativum plant, known as cilantro or coriander, are widely used in many cuisines around the world. However, far from being a benign culinary herb, cilantro can be polarizing---many people love it while others claim that it tastes or smells foul, often like soap or dirt. This soapy or pungent aroma is largely attributed to several aldehydes present in cilantro. Cilantro preference is suspected to have a genetic component, yet to date nothing is known about specific mechanisms. Here we present the results of a genome-wide association study among 14,604 participants of European ancestry who reported whether cilantro tasted soapy, with replication in a distinct set of 11,851 participants who declared whether they liked cilantro. We find a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) significantly associated with soapy-taste detection that is confirmed in the cilantro preference group. This SNP, rs72921001, (p=6.4e-9, odds ratio 0.81 per A allele) lies within a cluster of olfactory receptor genes on chromosome 11. Among these olfactory receptor genes is OR6A2, which has a high binding specificity for several of the aldehydes that give cilantro its characteristic odor. We also estimate the heritability of cilantro soapy-taste detection in our cohort, showing that the heritability tagged by common SNPs is low, about 0.087. These results confirm that there is a genetic component to cilantro taste perception and suggest that cilantro dislike may stem from genetic variants in olfactory receptors. We propose that OR6A2 may be the olfactory receptor that contributes to the detection of a soapy smell from cilantro in European populations."]]></description>
<dc:subject>genetics diversity little-useful-examples accounting-for-taste-get-it?</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:52cf2327a04a/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:genetics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:little-useful-examples"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:accounting-for-taste-get-it?"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3398">
    <title>[1204.3398] Emergence of diversity in a model ecosystem</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-29T12:34:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3398</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The biological requirements for an ecosystem to develop and maintain species diversity are in general unknown. Here we consider a model ecosystem of sessile and mutually excluding organisms competing for space [Mathiesen et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 188101 (2011)]. The competition is controlled by an interaction network with fixed links chosen by a Bernoulli process. New species are introduced in the system at a predefined rate. In the limit of small introduction rates, the system becomes bistable and can undergo a phase transition from a state of low diversity to high diversity. We suggest that patches of isolated meta-populations formed by the collapse of cyclic relations are essential for the transition to the state of high diversity.]]></description>
<dc:subject>artificial-life agent-based diversity lattice-models nudge-targets theoretical-biology hey-I-know-this-guy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:79eb006fdc33/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:artificial-life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:agent-based"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:lattice-models"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:theoretical-biology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:hey-I-know-this-guy"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3884">
    <title>[1203.3884] A complex speciation-richness relationship in a simple neutral model</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-29T12:23:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.3884</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Speciation is the "elephant in the room" of community ecology. As the ultimate source of biodiversity, its integration in ecology's theoretical corpus is necessary to understand community assembly. Yet, speciation is often completely ignored or stripped of its spatial dimension. Recent approaches based on network theory have allowed ecologists to effectively model complex landscapes. In this study, we use this framework to model allopatric and parapatric speciation in networks of communities and focus on the relationship between speciation, richness, and the spatial structure of communities. We find a strong opposition between speciation and local richness, with speciation being more common in isolated communities and local richness being higher in more connected communities. Unlike previous models, we also find a transition to a positive relationship between speciation and local richness when dispersal is low and the number of communities is small. Also, we use several measures of centrality to characterize the effect of network structure on diversity. The degree, the simplest measure of centrality, is found to be the best predictor of local richness and speciation, although it loses some of its predictive power as connectivity grows. Our framework shows how a simple neutral model can be combined with network theory to reveal complex relationships between speciation, richness, and the spatial organization of populations.]]></description>
<dc:subject>evo-eco community-formation speciation diversity population-biology models nudge-targets</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:808a707b3338/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:evo-eco"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:community-formation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:speciation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:population-biology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:models"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5341">
    <title>[1208.5341] Sensitive Ants in Solving the Generalized Vehicle Routing Problem</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-29T12:18:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5341</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The idea of sensitivity in ant colony systems has been exploited in hybrid ant-based models with promising results for many combinatorial optimization problems. Heterogeneity is induced in the ant population by endowing individual ants with a certain level of sensitivity to the pheromone trail. The variable pheromone sensitivity within the same population of ants can potentially intensify the search while in the same time inducing diversity for the exploration of the environment. The performance of sensitive ant models is investigated for solving the generalized vehicle routing problem. Numerical results and comparisons are discussed and analysed with a focus on emphasizing any particular aspects and potential benefits related to hybrid ant-based models]]></description>
<dc:subject>ant-colony-optimization algorithms diversity modeling nudge-targets ramification-of-parameters operations-research</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:2721c9e9c20c/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:ant-colony-optimization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:algorithms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:modeling"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:ramification-of-parameters"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:operations-research"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.2663">
    <title>[1205.2663] Are visual dictionaries generalizable?</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-29T11:38:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.2663</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Mid-level features based on visual dictionaries are today a cornerstone of systems for classification and retrieval of images. Those state-of-the-art representations depend crucially on the choice of a codebook (visual dictionary), which is usually derived from the dataset. In general-purpose, dynamic image collections (e.g., the Web), one cannot have the entire collection in order to extract a representative dictionary. However, based on the hypothesis that the dictionary reflects only the diversity of low-level appearances and does not capture semantics, we argue that a dictionary based on a small subset of the data, or even on an entirely different dataset, is able to produce a good representation, provided that the chosen images span a diverse enough portion of the low-level feature space. Our experiments confirm that hypothesis, opening the opportunity to greatly alleviate the burden in generating the codebook, and confirming the feasibility of employing visual dictionaries in large-scale dynamic environments.]]></description>
<dc:subject>diversity image-analysis classification feature-extraction generalization nudge-targets performance-space</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:d9f226cc7224/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:image-analysis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:classification"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:feature-extraction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:generalization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:performance-space"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3533">
    <title>[1208.3533] DisC Diversity: Result Diversification based on Dissimilarity and Coverage</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-29T11:36:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3533</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Recently, result diversification has attracted a lot of attention as a means to improve the quality of results retrieved by user queries. In this paper, we propose a new, intuitive definition of diversity called DisC diversity. A DisC diverse subset of a query result contains objects such that each object in the result is represented by a similar object in the diverse subset and the objects in the diverse subset are dissimilar to each other. We show that locating a minimum DisC diverse subset is an NP-hard problem and provide heuristics for its approximation. We also propose adapting DisC diverse subsets to a different degree of diversification. We call this operation zooming. We present efficient implementations of our algorithms based on the M-tree, a spatial index structure, and experimentally evaluate their performance.]]></description>
<dc:subject>diversity algorithms search-algorithms multiobjective-optimization performance-measure nudge-targets</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:4af850d1a02d/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:algorithms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:search-algorithms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:multiobjective-optimization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:performance-measure"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.5032">
    <title>[1207.5032] Diversity, disparity, and evolutionary rate estimation for unresolved Yule trees</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-29T11:34:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.5032</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The branching structure of biological evolution confers statistical dependencies on phenotypic trait values in related organisms. For this reason, comparative macroevolutionary studies usually begin with an inferred phylogeny that describes the evolutionary relationships of the organisms of interest. The probability of the observed trait data can be computed by assuming a model for trait evolution, such as Brownian motion, over the branches of this fixed tree. However, the phylogenetic tree itself contributes statistical uncertainty to estimates of other evolutionary quantities, and many comparative evolutionary biologists regard the tree as a nuisance parameter. In this paper, we present a framework for analytically integrating over unknown phylogenetic trees in comparative evolutionary studies by assuming that the tree arises from a continuous-time Markov branching model called the Yule process. To do this, we derive a closed-form expression for the distribution of phylogenetic diversity, which is the sum of branch lengths connecting a set of taxa. We then present a generalization of phylogenetic diversity which is equivalent to the expected trait disparity in a set of taxa whose evolutionary relationships are generated by a Yule process and whose traits evolve by Brownian motion. We derive expressions for the distribution of expected trait disparity under a Yule tree. Given one or more observations of trait disparity in a clade, we perform fast likelihood-based estimation of the Brownian variance for unresolved clades. Our method does not require simulation or a fixed phylogenetic tree. We conclude with a brief example illustrating Brownian rate estimation for thirteen families in the Mammalian order Carnivora, in which the phylogenetic tree for each family is unresolved.]]></description>
<dc:subject>cladistics algorithms diversity nudge-targets statistics confounding-factors</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:16c1c13ea991/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:algorithms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:statistics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:confounding-factors"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.newgeography.com/content/002938-religion-and-city">
    <title>Religion and the City | Newgeography.com</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-01T11:11:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newgeography.com/content/002938-religion-and-city</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["He talks about items ranging from multicultural sensitivities to taking the arts serious to “being famous for helping the poor.” The latter was an item that jumped out at me because, as I’ve noted before, too many urbanist arguments are basically arguments for what I call “Starbucks urbanism.” If called on this, people will say, “But of course transit will benefit the poor too.” But that’s not how it’s sold. Urbanists ought to be famous for the way they design, implement, and talk about their policies as instruments for helping the poor and facilitating upward economic and social mobility. There’s a lot of other good stuff in the video that’s relevant to urbanism.

For those who prefer reading, Keller also wrote a paper called “Our New Global Culture: Ministry in Cities, which says of itself: “This paper surveys the rise of global cities, the culture and dominant worldviews within these cities, and a framework for ministering in them.”?]]></description>
<dc:subject>city-planning organization marketing Workantile Coscience outreach diversity management</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:51e092a9b6cf/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:organization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:marketing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Workantile"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:Coscience"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:outreach"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5218">
    <title>[1112.5218] Patterns of neutral diversity under general models of selective sweeps</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-29T12:10:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5218</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Two major sources of stochasticity in the dynamics of neutral alleles result from resampling of finite populations (genetic drift) and the random genetic background of nearby selected alleles on which the neutral alleles are found (linked selection). There is now good evidence that linked selection plays an important role in shaping polymorphism levels in a number of species. One of the best investigated models of linked selection is the recurrent full sweep model, in which newly arisen selected alleles fix rapidly. However, the bulk of selected alleles that sweep into the population may not be destined for rapid fixation. Here we develop a general model of recurrent selective sweeps in a coalescent framework, one that generalizes the recurrent full sweep model to the case where selected alleles do not sweep to fixation. We show that in a large population, only the initial rapid increase of a selected allele affects the genealogy at partially linked sites, which under fairly general assumptions are unaffected by the subsequent fate of the selected allele. We also apply the theory to a simple model to investigate the impact of recurrent partial sweeps on levels of neutral diversity, and find that for a given reduction in diversity, the impact of recurrent partial sweeps on the frequency spectrum at neutral sites is determined primarily by the frequencies achieved by the selected alleles. Consequently, recurrent sweeps of selected alleles to low frequencies can have a profound effect on levels of diversity but can leave the frequency spectrum relatively unperturbed. In fact, the limiting coalescent model under a high rate of sweeps to low frequency is identical to the standard neutral model. The general model of selective sweeps we describe goes some way towards providing a more flexible framework to describe genomic patterns of diversity than is currently available."]]></description>
<dc:subject>neutral-networks evolutionary-dynamics fitness-landscapes diversity theoretical-biology evolution</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:485bda4f32c6/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:fitness-landscapes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:theoretical-biology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:evolution"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.jroller.com/mindcrime/entry/time_for_the_return_of">
    <title>Phillip Rhodes' Weblog</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-24T12:13:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.jroller.com/mindcrime/entry/time_for_the_return_of</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In short, it's time for a resurrection of the crypto-anarchist / techno-libertarian / cypherpunk movement and it's associated values, activities and aesthetic. Those of us who care about these issues can't just lurk in the shadows and act like nothing is happening. It's time to start telling people about public-key encryption, hosting key-signing parties, developing new technologies for bypassing Internet censorship, developing tools for bypassing State and Corporation controlled messaging channels, and taking a stand for freedom."]]></description>
<dc:subject>cryptography nrrrrds cultural-assumptions cultural-dynamics diversity</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:6fbd837d4dd5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nrrrrds"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-assumptions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:cultural-dynamics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4374">
    <title>[1204.4374] Higher Order City Voronoi Diagrams</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-21T12:01:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4374</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We investigate higher-order Voronoi diagrams in the city metric. This metric is induced by quickest paths in the L1 metric in the presence of an accelerating transportation network of axis-parallel line segments. …"]]></description>
<dc:subject>computational-geometry algorithms voronoi-diagrams diversity network-theory nudge-targets</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:5887efc8b7aa/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:computational-geometry"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:algorithms"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:voronoi-diagrams"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:network-theory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:nudge-targets"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2135">
    <title>[1101.2135] Bounded confidence model: addressed information maintain diversity of opinions</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-05T13:26:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1101.2135</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A community of agents is subject to a stream of messages, which are represented as points on a plane of issues. Messages are sent by media and by agents themselves. Messages from media shape the public opinion. They are unbiased, i.e. positive and negative opinions on a given issue appear with equal frequencies. In our previous work, the only criterion to receive a message by an agent is if the distance between this message and the ones received earlier does not exceed the given value of the tolerance parameter. Here we introduce a possibility to address a message to a given neighbour. We show that this option reduces the unanimity effect, what improves the collective performance.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>agent-based communication network-theory machine-learning diversity</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:6711347526ab/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:communication"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:network-theory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:machine-learning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/mouthpieces_mind_and_matter/">
    <title>The Valve - A Literary Organ | Mouthpieces, Mind, and Matter</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-25T12:25:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/mouthpieces_mind_and_matter/</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Last month Jane Bennett gave a talk at New York’s New School entitled “Powers of the Hoard: Artistry and Agency in a World of Vibrant Matter”. She was interested in the question of whether or not compulsive hoarders have a particular affinity for matter, specifically, the matter of/in the things they so assiduously collect. The purpose of this post is to ask a similar question about trumpet players and their mouthpieces. Some have only a few, while others have hundreds."]]></description>
<dc:subject>collecting hoarding multicriterion-decisionmaking sociology psychoceramics eccentricity diversity</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:331bfe28be0d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:hoarding"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:multicriterion-decisionmaking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:sociology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:psychoceramics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:eccentricity"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://bozosapiens.blogspot.com/2011/05/robert-owen-laboriousness.html">
    <title>Bozo Sapiens: Robert Owen: Laboriousness</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-10T14:25:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bozosapiens.blogspot.com/2011/05/robert-owen-laboriousness.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Owen had neglected to notice that expectations also change through circumstance. As our communal conditions advance, we all tend to want to become the prophet, not merely the congregation. Once the problem of survival is solved, it’s no longer enough not to be starving or abused or overworked – we want personal satisfaction and self-direction. So, yes: some of the great names in business – the Lowell mills, Hershey’s, Cadbury’s, Lever Brothers, Google – applied dilute Owenism to great effect, but success makes employees become more individualist and ask for more of their reward in cash, while hard times make shareholders less generous, pointing out that plenty of people would take the job without the crêche, lecture series, or company brass band. Shifting expectation drives the carousel for another turn; we remain ambivalent about work, this thing we do through most of our waking lives, because we still don’t know what it is for."]]></description>
<dc:subject>institutional-design collaboration workantile-exchange diversity plan-for-change</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:17afd9031720/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:institutional-design"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:collaboration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:workantile-exchange"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:plan-for-change"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://stringentresponse.blogspot.com/2011/05/systems-biology-approach-to-stringent.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ResearchBloggingAllEnglish+%28Research+Blogging+-+English+-+All+Topics%29">
    <title>Stringent Response: Systems biology approach to stringent response</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-10T14:07:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://stringentresponse.blogspot.com/2011/05/systems-biology-approach-to-stringent.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ResearchBloggingAllEnglish+%28Research+Blogging+-+English+-+All+Topics%29</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["All this results in bacteria gambling all the time: some react to stimulus, some don't, some produce more proteins in response to it, some less. This leads to so called phenotypic heterogeneity, when otherwise (genetically) identical bacteria become very different in terms of their responses.

This could be a good thing and also could be a bad thing. Having a collection of different bugs instead of a clone army will provide certain versatility: some are ready for one conditions, and some are ready for others. For instance, some are ready to grow and divide right away and some are slower and more cautious. Both types of cells can be beneficial in different conditions: the active ones will drive the population growth, but will be sensitive to the antibiotic treatment, and the passive ones will wait until the treatment is over and then they will come to life. Sounds like a good strategy (and it has a name, this strategy - "bed hedging") and I guess it is exactly the reason why clone armies never caught on."]]></description>
<dc:subject>diversity systems-biology evolutionary-biology game-theory emergent-design</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:3a93947cd74e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:systems-biology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:evolutionary-biology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:game-theory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:emergent-design"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2011/06/paul-graham-offers-some-number.php?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29">
    <title>Paul Graham Offers Some Numbers on the Success of Y Combinator's Startups</title>
    <dc:date>2011-06-05T13:28:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2011/06/paul-graham-offers-some-number.php?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Graham notes that funding, while easy to measure, isn't necessarily the best way to gauge the success of the program's startups. "Getting funded is not success. It's just something that makes success more likely." But if the standard measurement for success is value, and if value is measured by exits, then the 6 years of YC's existence isn't quite long enough to adequately assess this. Of the 300-plus startups, "just" 25 YC companies have been acquired, 5 of them for over $10 million, and Graham says that he's estimated the values of the rest of the companies based on these acquisition figures in order to gauge that the average value of companies Y Combinator has funded to be roughly $22 million.

But coming up with an adequate measurement for success isn't really the point, says Graham. "The real lesson here though is how long it takes to measure performance in this business. We're 6 years in, and we could easily be off by 3x in either direction. Startup outcomes are unpredictable, and the outcomes of their investors doubly so, because it's hard to say whether the big successes are repeatable, or if the investors just got lucky. Even 6 years in, all we can say is that the numbers look encouraging so far.""]]></description>
<dc:subject>metrics business-culture startups Y-Combinator diversity portfolio-theory-in-practice</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:0c5cab1b9d5e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:business-culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:startups"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:portfolio-theory-in-practice"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/noveltysearch/userspage/index.html">
    <title>Novelty Search Users Page</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-26T13:48:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://eplex.cs.ucf.edu/noveltysearch/userspage/index.html</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This page provides information on the use and implementation of novelty search, an evolutionary search method that takes the radical step of ignoring the objective of search and instead rewarding only behavioral novelty. This visual demonstration (requires modern browser, IE users may need to install a plugin) contrasts a search for novelty with a search for the objective."]]></description>
<dc:subject>evolutionary-algorithms diversity innovation learning-by-doing gptp-2011</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:cf0a75e508e0/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:innovation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:learning-by-doing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:gptp-2011"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.3607">
    <title>[1006.3607] Diversity and critical behavior in prisoner's dilemma game</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-28T15:09:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.3607</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The prisoner's dilemma (PD) game is a simple model for understanding cooperative patterns in complex systems consisting of selfish individuals. Here, we study a PD game problem in scale-free networks containing hierarchically organized modules and controllable shortcuts connecting separated hubs. We find that cooperator clusters exhibit a percolation transition in the parameter space (p,b), where p is the occupation probability of shortcuts and b is the temptation payoff in the PD game. The cluster size distribution follows a power law at the transition point. Such a critical behavior, resulting from the combined effect of stochastic processes in the PD game and the heterogeneous structure of complex networks, illustrates the diversity of social relationships and the self-organization of cooperator communities in real-world systems."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>evolutionary-economics prisoner's-dilemma complexology economics game-theory network-theory nudge-targets diversity</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:c764c31c3816/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:complexology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:game-theory"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:network-theory"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2283">
    <title>[1002.2283] A Gossip Algorithm for Convex Consensus Optimization over Networks</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-18T11:45:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://arxiv.org/abs/1002.2283</link>
    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[These gossip methods are essentially identical to the dynamics in HFC, ALPS and Trivial Geography multi-population evolutionary algorithms.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>algorithms machine-learning exploitation-vs-exploration diversity</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/b:67fa1a073eeb/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:machine-learning"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:exploitation-vs-exploration"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:Vaguery/t:diversity"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2010/04/paul-krugman-georgia-on-my-mind.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EconomistsView+(Economist's+View+(EconomistsView))">
    <title>Economist's View: Paul Krugman: Georgia on My Mind</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What’s striking about the contrast between the Texas story and Georgia’s debacle is that it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the issues that have dominated debates about banking reform. For example, many observers have blamed complex financial derivatives for the crisis. But Georgia banks blew themselves up with old-fashioned loans gone bad."
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    <title>Economist's View: &quot;Much of U.S. Was Insulated From Housing Bust&quot;</title>
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    <dc:creator>Vaguery</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['“Most U.S. metro areas actually experienced more moderate increases in house prices than the nation between 2000 and 2006. In fact, 249 of the 383 metropolitan areas tracked by the Federal Housing Finance Agency saw price increases below the national rate of 8.1% during the boom”... Many of these areas, in turn, didn’t experience the resulting bust.…'
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