Category Archives: Modelling

Limits to modelling – Godel’s Incompleteness theorem

Posted on December 14, 2014 by Patrick_Beautement

Agent-based modelling is often hailed as a way of modelling the future, predicting outcomes in social situations. But there are both hard limitations on what you can predict with modelling, and a lack of understanding of those limitations.This post examines … Continue reading →

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