Unix is turning 50

Wow!

NetLogo

I enjoyed reading the book Agent-Based Modeling & Geographical Information Systems. I first got interested in agent-based modeling around 1999. At that time, the only software platform for this kind of modeling is Mathematica. Now with free and open source software like NetLogo, it is much easier to translate ideas into executable code and see the results.

A large number of agent-based models have been developed. OpenABM is an online repository for such models, the majority of which were developed in NetLogo.

The red-blue divide in the US

1. Diverging economics
2. Diverging life expectancy
• Collapse of traditional values