I’m a 24 yo male grad student (in Halifax, Nova Scotia) studying ecological math modelling.
This site is a gold-mine for clear thinking on the relationship between maps (models) and territories (systems). I’m interested in understanding and dealing with the trade-off between fidelity of the map to the territory and its ‘legibility’. I’ve been lurking for about a year after coming across an article by Eliezer via Hacker News and got hooked.
Hi.
I’m a 24 yo male grad student (in Halifax, Nova Scotia) studying ecological math modelling.
This site is a gold-mine for clear thinking on the relationship between maps (models) and territories (systems). I’m interested in understanding and dealing with the trade-off between fidelity of the map to the territory and its ‘legibility’. I’ve been lurking for about a year after coming across an article by Eliezer via Hacker News and got hooked.
No kidding! Haligonian lurker here too.
Very cool! I figured Canadians wouldn’t be very well represented here, let alone Haligonians!