Nate Osgood, together with 4 students from the Computational Epidemiology and Public Health Informatics Lab in Saskatoon, Canada, recently ran a community group model building event focusing on the drivers for homelessness in their city. This post describes the event, and the next steps that they are planning to take.| Topos Institute
Introduction What is the world? Is it “everything that is the case?” Does it have different strata, whose realities are grounded in mutually incompatible ways, or just one? When we describe the world to each other, don’t our choices of language privilege certain answers to these questions, and foreclose on the possibility of certain others? I won’t waste much time with monism (i.e. the answer “just one”), even when many fellow Western tech-and-science types seem to take it as not...| Topos Institute
We’re pushing out a major release comprising our CatColab work over the last quarter. If you’re just tuning in to the project, see my first blog post on the topic. This is an alpha release, that is, CatColab is still experimental software with many features on the roadmap. However, we now have a more full-featured user-accessible database for storing, saving, and sharing your models, and we intend to migrate your data along with all future updates. Therefore, from today, we think CatColab...| Topos Institute