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Archive for January, 2009

Just notes…

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Personal notes for jogging my memory later:
If Pete Richerson is right, there’s been little genetic cognitive adaptation in the last several hundred thousand years of hominid evolution - just a few minor changes, a general increase in size and an evolution of context -> culture.
If that’s so, one of the main tasks of an evolutionary [...]

Modelling sucess

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

I’ve been working on a model of social interactions recently.I’m trying to see what happens when 1) your friends influence what you believe and 2) what you believe influences how many friends you have.
It’s an analytical / simulation combo, I’ve been trying to work it out algabraicly, on paper, and I’ve built a computer simulation [...]