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Joshua Balloch
Personal blog · joshuaballoch.github.ioprogrammingscience
Joshua Balloch's personal blog at joshuaballoch.github.io covers programming and science. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one HN comment, a general skeptical remark on NetLogo-based agent simulation papers. It does not discuss this blog's writing, so what the posts cover is not stated in the comments.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Whenever I see a NetLogo based paper, my suspicion is immediately raised. It's not that multiagent simulations are never good models of reality, it's that they are so hard to get right and so easy to shoot yourself in the foot with and not notice. Nonlinear dynamics are hard . Usually you write a simple model, it does something pathological like diverging to one extreme, you maybe tune the parameters a bit until it…
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