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Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research: March 2006
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Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research. An interdisciplinary project aimed to combine mathematics, computer science and other theoretical subjects with the social sciences. Learn more: i2r.org. Thursday, March 30, 2006. I was reading a few reviews of Duncan Watt's Six Degress of Separation. A great deal of important social science tools are mathematically based. Amarty Sen won the Nobel Prize. For his work in social indicators and social welfar, much of which includes development of axioms and mathema...
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Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research: April 2006
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Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research. An interdisciplinary project aimed to combine mathematics, computer science and other theoretical subjects with the social sciences. Learn more: i2r.org. Sunday, April 30, 2006. Neural Networks and Stocks. Page Here is the abstract:. The paper goes through a great deal of basics, but also has some interesting results. Feel free to check it out, and let me know what you think by e-mailing me. Posted by Wojciech at 7:28 PM. Tuesday, April 18, 2006. People are not ...
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Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research: RSA Challenge Numbers and Charity
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Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research. An interdisciplinary project aimed to combine mathematics, computer science and other theoretical subjects with the social sciences. Learn more: i2r.org. Tuesday, April 18, 2006. RSA Challenge Numbers and Charity. Quick, factor the following number:. And a mathematical tool called a "Quadratic Sieve", the above took my computer a few seconds. While the number was relatively easy because it had four factors, RSA Challenge Numbers. Posted by Wojciech at 12:04 AM.
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Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research: June 2006
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Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research. An interdisciplinary project aimed to combine mathematics, computer science and other theoretical subjects with the social sciences. Learn more: i2r.org. Sunday, June 04, 2006. Betting With Odds in Your Favour. Today, I was happy to read Michael Christie's Reuters article, "US hurricane outlook draws betting surge". According to the article, sites like Wager Web. Other sites, including Trade Sports. Let you bet on political events. I guess this brings on a whole...
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Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research: May 2005
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Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research. An interdisciplinary project aimed to combine mathematics, computer science and other theoretical subjects with the social sciences. Learn more: i2r.org. Saturday, May 14, 2005. Friday Morning Reflections at the World Bank. To say that religion and ethical has no presence in economics or politics is naive. Politics is guided by the morals and ideologies of those in power and voters (one would hope). Thus, it is inherently religious, and the sooner we rea...Proje...
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Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research: Social Networks and Policy
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Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research. An interdisciplinary project aimed to combine mathematics, computer science and other theoretical subjects with the social sciences. Learn more: i2r.org. Monday, May 01, 2006. Social Networks and Policy. While working on my social networks research, I picked up a book called Social Networks and Social Exclusion: Sociological and Policy Perspectives. This is like the inverse of Ronald Burt's Structural Holes. Posted by Wojciech at 10:40 PM. Neural Networks and St...
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Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research: Quantitative Social Science - Follow Up
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Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research. An interdisciplinary project aimed to combine mathematics, computer science and other theoretical subjects with the social sciences. Learn more: i2r.org. Wednesday, May 03, 2006. Quantitative Social Science - Follow Up. In my post on quantitative social science. I provided a link to Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Lately I've been finding quite a few of these, and so I must post them here for anyone interested (and my own personal memory).
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Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research: February 2005
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Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research. An interdisciplinary project aimed to combine mathematics, computer science and other theoretical subjects with the social sciences. Learn more: i2r.org. Thursday, February 10, 2005. A Place for Neural Networks? In my opinion, neural networks are some of the most interesting tools in computer science and other fields. Their applications are enormous, and it would be interesting to see how they can be applied to political issues. Posted by Wojciech at 8:59 PM.
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Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research: January 2005
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Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research. An interdisciplinary project aimed to combine mathematics, computer science and other theoretical subjects with the social sciences. Learn more: i2r.org. Monday, January 31, 2005. Digitizing the Developing World. The Red Herring has an interesting article on " The Hundred-Buck PC. A noble idea, and one that follows well with C.K. Prahalad's The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Posted by Wojciech at 10:23 PM. Sunday, January 30, 2005. While I do not know muc...
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Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research: July 2006
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Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research. An interdisciplinary project aimed to combine mathematics, computer science and other theoretical subjects with the social sciences. Learn more: i2r.org. Monday, July 24, 2006. Iraq and Fast Food. The first time I ever read about the political power of fast food was in Thomas Friedman's The Lexus and the Olive Tree. The best example, of course, is the War in Iraq, when French Fries became "Freedom Fries" and even French's Mustard. Since data on small, ethnic res...
