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Schelling's Segregation Model
Why are our cities so segregated?
- Suppose we have a very tolerant society (people are happy if 50% of people around them are likes them)
- Happy people will stay put while unhappy will move to other spot.
Segregation level: 0%; Unhappy: 40-50%
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Simulating Social Emergence
- Very surprising outcomes emerge due to combined behaviour of different agents.
- Within Computational Social Sciences, agent based model simulations helps us to explore combinatorial possibilities in theory.
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Modelling As Mapping
- The only working model of a Universe is a Universe
- Therefore, modelling involves losing out details from the real world.
- The creative part is to select the right abstraction that is meaningful and useful.
Fun Website to try: worldmapper.org
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"Nature/philosophy is written in this grand book - The Unviverse. It continually stands open to our gaze but one cannot understand it unless one learns to comprehend the language in which it is written- the language of mathematics. Without it one is wandering in a dark...
GALILEO GALILIE
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Emergence Of Segregation Phenomenon
- Even after every 'individual' being fairly tolerant, the society turned out to segregated.
Segregation: 80-90%, Unhappy: 0%
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