Models, Modeling, and Algorithmic Power

All Models are Wrong, Wikipedia

Modeling, Science, and “Reason”, Politics and Prosperity, undated…

Oleg Yordanov: Chaos at fifty: a statistical perspective, undated…

Adilson E. Motter and David K. Campbell: Chaos at Fifty, Physics Today, 2013-05-01(Plain text PDF)

George E. P. Box: Science and Statistics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 71, No. 356, 1976 (JSTOR)

What is Godel's Theorem?, Scientific American, 1999-01-25

Specialization of strategies and herding behavior of trading firms in a financial market, New Journal of Physics, 2008-04-14

Gerd Gigerenzer and Henry Brighton: Homo Heuristicus: Why Biased Minds Make Better Inferences, TopiCS, 2009-01-30

How can computer simulations produce new knowledge?, Philosophy of Science, 2012-04-24

Systemtyranni, Adressa, 2012-06-23

High-frequency trading and the $440m mistake, BBC News, 2012-08-11

Machine Bias, PRoPublica, 2016-05-23

Can slower financial traders find a haven in a world of high-speed algorithms?, the Conversation, 2016-07-05

Values and evidence: how models make a difference, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2017-07-17

Når datasystemene bestemmer, Kai A. Olsen i Khrono, 2017-12-18

David Orrell: Why economists can’t predict the future, The Future of Everything (Blog), 2017-10-31

David Orrell: Storm Warnings, New Thinking for the British Economy/Open Democracy, 2018-04-24

The Turkey Illusion, Safal Niveshak, 2018-06-13

Trond Kjærstad: Gunstig intelligens trumfer kunstig intelligens, BI Business Review, 2018-09-05

Claus Beisbart (ed.): Computer Simulation Validation, Springer, 2019

AI pioneer: ‘The dangers of abuse are very real’, Nature, 2019-04-04

The algorithmic public sphere and democracy, Diggit Magazine, 2019-05-25(?)

Escape from model-land, Economics, 2019-10-08

David J. Chalmers: The Virtual and the Real, Disputatio, 2018-03-06


2020

The model zoologist: how should we think about animals, model animals, and non-model model animals?, Zoology, 2020-02

'Confusion': Imperial College scientist says 500K coronavirus death projection in UK remains unchanged, Washington Examiner, 2020-03-27

Behind the Virus Report That Jarred the U.S. and the U.K. to Action, New York Times, 2020-04-02

Special report: The simulations driving the world’s response to COVID-19, Nature, 2020-04-02

Wendy S. Parker: Evidence and Knowledge from Computer Simulation, Erkenntnis, 2020-05-03

Isaac M. Held: The Gap between Simulation and Understanding in Climate Modeling, BAMS, 2005-11-01 (Archive.org)

The limits of a model, Nature Physics, 2020-06-08

David J. Chalmers: The Virtual as the Digital, Disputatio, 2020-06-08

The role of disciplinary perspectives in an epistemology of scientific models, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2020-07-01

Wrong but Useful — What Covid-19 Epidemiologic Models Can and Cannot Tell Us, NEJM, 2020-07-23

Applications of predictive modelling early in the COVID-19 epidemic, the Lancet, 2020-08-10

Autumn term chaos feared over exam resits and appeals, the Guardian, 2020-08-16

How algorithms keep workers in the dark, BBC Worklife, 2020-08-28

The Curse of Game Theory: Why It’s in Your Self-Interest to Break the Rules of the Game, Strategic Culture, 2020-10-07

Why Modeling the Spread of COVID-19 Is So Damn Hard, IEEE Spectrum, 2020-09-22


2021

Virtually a measurement, Nature Physics, 2021-01-08

Data models, representation and adequacy-for-purpose, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2021-01-29

Generating conjectures on fundamental constants with the Ramanujan Machine, Nature, 2021-02-03

Modeling and Science Revisited, Politics and Prosperity, 2021-02-09


2022

Tyranny of the Modelers, Who is Robert Malone, 2022-06-02