I'm sure y'all have seen this post from NECSI: http://news.mit.edu/2020/study-physics-democratic-elections-0121 https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11489 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0739-6
It's interesting that the arXiv.org submission is 1.25 years old and the paper's just out in Nature Physics. From the news article (first link) 8^): > Siegenfeld says that’s because in physics, it’s not always necessary to know > the details of the underlying objects or mechanisms to be able to produce > useful and meaningful results. -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove