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average transitivity for stochastic laplacian process
Publish Date: Thu, 02/23/2012 - 15:50Following up my previous notebook post, I have the average transitivity vs. time for 100 of the same powerlaw graphs as before, but now using the fully stochastic...
View ArticleMarch is my month of democracy math
Publish Date: Mon, 03/05/2012 - 21:42This month I've cleared my calendar to do the work I promised on my "Mathematics of Direct Democracy" research project. This is an initial update, to offer some...
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Issues vs. proposals
Publish Date: Thu, 03/08/2012 - 18:18The simulations I ran in July 2011 were based on the idea of dealing with a series of proposals: proposal → friendly amendment → amended proposal → friendly...
View ArticleA pattern language for group process
Publish Date: Fri, 03/09/2012 - 11:51This looks great! In order to distinguish whether or not a particular idea was a pattern, we asked ourselves questions like: Does this describe a feature that shows...
View ArticleConsensus project: forks in the road
Publish Date: Mon, 03/12/2012 - 13:43It seems like a good time to make an all-in-one-place list of things that aren't accounted for in the first wave of modeling I did:In those models, individuals'...
View ArticleMy presentation to Occupy Oakland Research Working Group
Publish Date: Mon, 03/12/2012 - 16:51Notes on my presentation to the Occupy Oakland Research Working Group, March 11,...
View ArticleSlides for tomorrow's talk at Noisebridge
Publish Date: Wed, 03/14/2012 - 22:26Tomorrow (thursday) evening I'll be giving a lightning talk at Noisebridge's monthly 5 Minutes of Fame event. This month's 5mof is connected with the weekend's...
View ArticleWeek 1: forks in the road; constraints; complications.
Publish Date: Wed, 03/14/2012 - 22:34[Summary: in the first week (plus) of the project I have done some conceptual work and clarified connections to existing research on constraint satisfaction...
View Articlethe week in review: slow process, nogoods, disruption
Publish Date: Tue, 03/20/2012 - 20:04[Summary: I've been meeting with people and doing my reading. Does anyone have suggestions about how people's minds change and how structural inequalities play out...
View Articlepausing; negotiation; persuasion; silence
Publish Date: Sat, 03/31/2012 - 12:26Because of health problems, I need to postpone the final stretch of this month's research for a little while. I hope to pick it up again before long, possibly in...
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