Miscellaneous links


Karl W. Deutsch: Mechanism, Organism, and Society: Some Models in Natural and Social Science, Philosophy of Science, 1951  (JSTOR

Eugene Wigner: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences,  Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, 1960 (PDF

Sergiu Klainerman: Reflections on an Essay by Wigner, Inference, 2022-10

Robert M. May: Simple mathematical models with very complicated dynamics, Nature, 1976-06-10

John D. Sterman: All Models are Wrong: Reflections on Becoming a Systems Scientist, System Dynamics Review, 2002-12-30 (PDF)

Bow ties, metabolism and disease, Trends in Biotechnology, 2004-09

Robert M. May, Simon A. Levin & George Sugihara: Ecology for bankers, Nature, 2008-02-20

When Google got flu wrong, Nature, 2013-02-13

Kate Crawford: The Hidden Biases in Big Data, Harvard Business Review, 2013-04-01

Did Hyman Minsky find the secret behind financial crashes?, BBC News, 2014-03-24

Jaron Lanier and E.Glen Weyl: A Blueprint for a Better Digital Society, Harvard Business Review, 2018-09-26

Making digital government a better government, Nature, 2018-11-29

Climate-policy models debated, Nature, 2019-09-19 (PDF)


2020

Imperial College Model Applied to Sweden Yields Preposterous Results, AIER, 2020-04-30

Velkommen til en verden styrt av algoritmer og ansvarsfraskrivelser, NRK Beta, 2020-09-01

Odd Handegård: Kampen om virkelighetsoppfatninger, Steigan, 2020-09-04

There are no wicked problems, Communications Research Institute (CRI), 2020-08-28

The appallingly bad neoclassical economics of climate change, Globalizations, 2020-09-01

Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World, by Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West.…

Edward Curtin: The End of Reality?, OffGuardian, 2020-09-20

Pandemimodellering – hvorfor så vanskelig?, Tidsskriftet, 2020-10-20

Systems Forecasting 

Covid-19 and the moral case for personal judgement, Engelsbergs Ideas, 2020-11-25


2021

«R-tallet» er ren gjetning, Steigan, 2021-01-11

Halvor Næss og Are Hugo Pripp: Modeller omdanner ikke subjektive inndata til objektive utdata, Tidsskriftet, 2021-02-01

Koronavirus-modellering ved FHI, FHI, 2020-04-14

The Hard Lessons of Modeling the Coronavirus Pandemic, Quanta Magazine, 2021-01-28

Machines Are Inventing New Math We've Never Seen, VICE Motherboard, 2021-02-10

Ufri forskning, Tidsskriftet, 2021-03-22

The Quest to Tell Science from Pseudoscience, Boston Review, 2021-03-23

How Energy Transition Models Go Wrong, Our Finite World, 2021-06-18


2022

Why the cost of mitigating climate change can’t be boiled down to one right number, despite some economists’ best attempts, the Conversation, 2022-02-22

Digital twin may save Turkey’s Marmara Sea from pollution risk, Daily Sabah, 2022-05-04

The Model Is The Message, Noema Magazine, 2022-07-12

Sergiu Klainerman: Reflections on an Essay by Wigner, Inference, 2022-10

Paul M. Sutter: Science Has a Communication Problem – and a Connection Problem, Undark, 2022-10-20

How empathy in changemaking can transform institutions, Berkeley News, 2022-10-27

Computer Proof ‘Blows Up’ Centuries-Old Fluid Equations, Quanta Magazine, 2022-11-16

The Future is a Foreign Country, HART, 2022-11-25

China COVID wave could kill one million people, models predict, Nature, 2022-12-19

Alexander R. Galloway: Normal Science, 2022-12-19


2023 (nyeste først:)

Our Megathreatened Age, Project Syndicate, 2023-11-24

Rethinking Algorithmic Decision-Making, Stanford News, 2023-07-27

Excess mortality attributed to heat and cold: a health impact assessment study in 854 cities in Europe, the Lancet, 2023-03-16

Escape from Muddle Land, EconoSpeak, 2023-03-14

The complex interplay behind great heat, ETH News, 2023-02-20


2024 (nyeste først:)

Future Readiness Indicator 2024, IMD, 2024-05

Kerem Alkin: Anachronism syndrome of the West and facts, Daily Sabah, 2024-01-30

Welcome to 2034: What the world could look like in ten years, according to nearly 300 experts, Atlantic Council, 2024-01-??