Re: [Swarm-Modelling] Announce: metaABM 1.0.0

[Miles T. Parker]

On Nov 25, 2007, at 10:42 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:

> Miles T. Parker wrote:
> > > Coefficients for formulas are just a special case of functional  
> > > programs.  Both can be fit to data, and compressed.
> > > The story doesn't need to be invented by a human to be rationalized.
> >
> > But are you claiming that that is privileged over the age-old  
> > process of the observing nature intuitively, noticing regularities  
> > and then verifying that through measurement?
> Nope, but this age of even small computers being measured in chunks  
> of billions of things is a relatively new opportunity.  There hasn't  
> been time to time test it.

Very true, as long as we resist the urge to "create a life-size model  
of the earth that runs in real-time". :D

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