#SciFund fundraising report
Publish Date: Thu, 12/15/2011 - 22:27The #SciFund challenge has just closed its fundraising period, and my project with it. I raised $1,321 from 26 people, which is just fine with me. The #SciFund...
View ArticleMarch is my month of democracy math
Publish Date: Mon, 03/05/2012 - 21:42This month I've cleared my calendar to do the work I promised on my "Mathematics of Direct Democracy" research project. This is an initial update, to offer some...
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Issues vs. proposals
Publish Date: Thu, 03/08/2012 - 18:18The simulations I ran in July 2011 were based on the idea of dealing with a series of proposals: proposal → friendly amendment → amended proposal → friendly...
View ArticleA pattern language for group process
Publish Date: Fri, 03/09/2012 - 11:51This looks great! In order to distinguish whether or not a particular idea was a pattern, we asked ourselves questions like: Does this describe a feature that shows...
View ArticleConsensus project: forks in the road
Publish Date: Mon, 03/12/2012 - 13:43It seems like a good time to make an all-in-one-place list of things that aren't accounted for in the first wave of modeling I did:In those models, individuals'...
View ArticleMy presentation to Occupy Oakland Research Working Group
Publish Date: Mon, 03/12/2012 - 16:51Notes on my presentation to the Occupy Oakland Research Working Group, March 11,...
View ArticleSlides for tomorrow's talk at Noisebridge
Publish Date: Wed, 03/14/2012 - 22:26Tomorrow (thursday) evening I'll be giving a lightning talk at Noisebridge's monthly 5 Minutes of Fame event. This month's 5mof is connected with the weekend's...
View ArticleWeek 1: forks in the road; constraints; complications.
Publish Date: Wed, 03/14/2012 - 22:34[Summary: in the first week (plus) of the project I have done some conceptual work and clarified connections to existing research on constraint satisfaction...
View Articlethe week in review: slow process, nogoods, disruption
Publish Date: Tue, 03/20/2012 - 20:04[Summary: I've been meeting with people and doing my reading. Does anyone have suggestions about how people's minds change and how structural inequalities play out...
View Articlepausing; negotiation; persuasion; silence
Publish Date: Sat, 03/31/2012 - 12:26Because of health problems, I need to postpone the final stretch of this month's research for a little while. I hope to pick it up again before long, possibly in...
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