#computermodels — Public Fediverse posts
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#OpenAccess: "How computer models became fundamental to political practice—from winning elections to global affairs—and how we imagine political futures as a computing problem.
For more than six decades, the public has been promised that computers will revolutionize politics, both nationally and internationally. In SimPolitics, Fenwick McKelvey traces the entwined history of politics and computers from the 1960s to the late 1980s. He shows how programmers, consultants, academics, political scientists, and peace activists all worked—sometimes in tandem, sometimes not—to build simulations to win campaigns, predict coups, forecast the future, and render politics as legible as a spreadsheet.
Drawing on novel archival and historical research, McKelvey recounts the history of efforts to simulate politics by building models of elections, voters, and international relations. Comparing attempts in the United States to simulate domestic electoral politics and international affairs, he reveals the unexamined connections and conflicts between the two projects. His book provides a helpful guide to taking stock of exaggerated claims that AI and technology will fix politics, while presenting the long history of such promised technological fixes."
https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/6166/SimPoliticsAmerica-s-Quest-to-Solve-Politics-with
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[USGS] Landsat At Work – Preparing Residents When Hurricanes Threaten
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Landsat-Based National Land Cover Datasets (NCLD) Helps Predict Wind Risk To Homes And Other Structures
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https://www.usgs.gov/centers/eros/news/landsat-work-preparing-residents-where-hurricanes-threaten <-- shared technical article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #landsat #satellite #fedopendata #publicgood #fedscience #risk #hazard #model #modeling #actuary #insurance #rates #appraisal #hurricane #naturaldisaster #infrastructure #damage #cost #economics #loss #NLCD #landcover #landuse #evulation #projection #Florida #residential #EROS #USGS #coast #coastline #computermodels #wind #surge #flood #flooding #USGS #NOAA #NASA #EROS #HurricaneLossProjectionMethodology -
New #computermodels can help improve #airport landing delays
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A weather picture of early February for UK grown-ups. #weather #winter #February “Low chance of very cold” “snow values low.” #computermodels
Major SSW not imminent at this stage. Very cold in Central Europe. High pressure close to UK. Keep an eye on mid-Feb for a classic Easterly spell.
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With relief, researchers find an explanation for dark-matter-poor galaxies - Enlarge / The slightly hazy, light patch in the middle of the image is ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1834586 #computermodels #astrophysics #darkmatter #astronomy #cosmology #science