Schmidt on Sense, Law & Complexity

Category: observation

  • Influencers

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    Provocative A message from shownieuws.nl quotes the following from Instagram: A post shared by Famke Louise on Sep 21, 2020 at 10:04am PDT: NO, I DON’T SHUT UP! #I’mOUT This is no longer acceptable. I say “NO” to all measures until the government can verifiably justify its policies. Do you agree with me? Then share…

  • Panicking Together?

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    For those who undergo chemo, it is good to work on their condition. Walking helps. When a 75-year-old father and a 49-year-old daughter do that three times a week, either hell or a kind of familiar lightness arises that somewhat offsets the weight of all the compassion that a bald head inevitably evokes. In Coronavirus…

  • Serendipity

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    Yesterday, more or less by chance, Mr. Sum saw on YouTube a conversation between Lawrence Krauss and Noam Chomsky. It was recorded in 2015. Chomsky was 86 years old at the time and, as always, exceptionally clear. He believes all kinds of things, for example that terrorism and human rights violations should be combated by…

  • How Biden Can Lose and Trump Can Win

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    The interview Yesterday it was Friday, August 21 of the year 2020. I watched an interview on CNN. Mike Pence, by John Berman. Pence took each of Berman’s questions as a hint — not for answering, but for to trigger propaganda, presented in a way that Berman could not domesticate. Berman lost the lead in…

  • Welmoed

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    After nine bursts of chemo every three weeks and surgery, we get the summary verdict that it has all worked and there is a good chance that life will return to normal. Time for coffee and cake, one would say. Of course we did enjoy these, but ease of mind takes some getting used to.…

  • Behind the Reproduction Number

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    So far I have derived as much insight as possible from two series of simple numbers, thought Mr. Node, the weekly numbers of COVID infections and the weekly numbers of COVID deaths. I copied them from the databases that were set up immediately as soon as it became clear how badly the virus spread and…

  • Trump as Nitwit

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    C.E. Sum looked at CNN this morning to see if there was anything special going on in the US. A massive blast in Beiruth. Trump is talking to a FOX journalist who caught him off his feet on how well the federation is doing in terms of control over COVID-19 in the US. Trump out…

  • Civil and Natural Philosophy

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    We wrote earlier “[…] There is also no definite place for ABMS as a research method when it must come to fruition in ‘such a condition.’ […] For ABMS, that would mean that it should get off the ground in a state of methodological chaos, a general state of free struggle between the other research…

  • Agent-based modeling for political research

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    This is part of a contribution to Section 63 of the ECPR 2020 conference. In terms of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference (planned in Innsbruck) has become a “web thing”. Section 63 addresses the dynamics of political movements and thus also the research methods that go with them. Our assumption is that operational state structures…

  • What’s it about?

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    Elsewhere it says: Mister Node may be right in assuming that taking measures against the spread of the COVID-19 virus often results in a move towards a forest fire architecture. That comment is about the meaning of the architecture of networks. In forest fires, this is determined by the distance between trees. A network can…