Randomness, “Structure” and Event History

I’m busy with the new semester, so this is going to be a fragment. Also, I haven’t had time to do more translations for my forest work, so its a new interpretation of some old data…Oh well…

Footprint of the Capitals, Part 1

Thanks to some very productive periods at Max Planck in Berlin and at Yale, I’ve had a chance to do some new work. This is building into a chapter where I consider the shifts in wood requisitions in the Ming and Qing. The pocket version of the argument is this: the Ming…

A Game that we cannot “Game,” or Algorithms in RL

There is growing concern about the problems that “Big Data” poses to free, democratic society, and rightly so.

There are all kinds of problems caused by bad data, and by the misuse of data. Biases in the data…