entropy – The Armen Show

welcome Professor Scott. E Page, Ph. D., of the University of Michigan, to episode 200 of the show
he currently teaches complex systems, computer science, and economics
also has taught an online course to initially 60000 people, and then a million people in its second iteration
on this episode, we discussed his career, many of the models presented in the book, and some applications of them in this world
many-models approach to modeling, that helps prevent modeling gaps
Markov models and their ability to represent an equilibrium state, with percentages representing transfer from one state to another
the impact of diversity on complex systems, which has been a large part of Professor Page’s focus, also in his earlier books The Diversity [Bonus] and Diversity and Complexity
how socioeconomic status is more likely to continue at the lower and upper bounds than for middle class folks, though they are 50% likely
discussion about entropy as representation of uncertainty, and how it differs from variance equitability of options
the Matthew effect of some support for something causing more support for it, causing a snowball
opioid models, and some of the issues with their treatment
we covered other topics not listed here, and it was great to speak with Professor Page about his material, which I am also interested in
you can check out The Model Thinker on Amazon, look at Professor Page’s Michigan webpage, or look at a listing of all his books.

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