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Language Evolution and Language Acquisition
The way children learn language sets the adaptive landscape on which languages evolve. This is acknowledged by many, but there are few connections between models of language acquisition and models of...
View ArticlePython: Your one stop shop for social science research.
Python is easy to use and pretty solid across platforms. Drew Conway has written an essential list of python tools for social science researchers. From running experiments to analysis and modelling,...
View ArticleCognitivism and the Critic 2: Symbol Processing
It has long been obvious to me that the so-called cognitive revolution is what happened when computation – both the idea and the digital technology – hit the human sciences. But I’ve seen little...
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Free Online Machine Learning Course
Hello! This is a quick post about a free online course on Machine Learning. The course is run by Andrew Ng at Stanford and I thought it would be of interest to those who read this blog as it covers...
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Numerical vs. analytical modelling
Since its resurgence in the 90s Multi-agent models have been a close companion of evolutionary linguistics (which for me subsumes both the study of the evolution of Language with a capital L as well...
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Underwood and Sellers 2015: Beyond narrative we have simulation
It is one thing to use computers to crunch data. It’s something else to use computers to simulate a phenomenon. Simulation is common in many disciplines, including physics, sociology, biology,...
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