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Re: the end of the pandemic

Posted by Prof David West on May 12, 2020; 8:22pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/the-end-of-the-pandemic-tp7595888p7595933.html

Marcus,

Unfortunately, culture is, at minimum, NP-Hard and almost certainly NP complete.

davew


On Tue, May 12, 2020, at 2:18 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:

Dave writes:

 

< Similar things happen all the time when we insist on focusing on "the science" and ignore the "art" and the insights of "non-scientific" disciplines and fields of inquiry. >

 

It is possible to state models of cultural interactions and simulate them on a computer.   When one does this, they will have said something precise enough to be wrong. 

 

Marcus

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