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For people interested in the related math, "Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos" by Steven Strogatz is a great book! Pdfs abound online.

You might want to maximize owner occupancy because you care about the poor homes who don't have local owners - as an owner living in the home might be better incentivized to take c…

A good general rule is to make it hard for people to do bad things, and to not create incentives to do so. This seems to do the opposite.

Isn’t homeowners insurance subsidised in the US in some places, especially in high risk areas? I can‘t find good resources on this - is there a logic behind this beyond pleasing th…

I agree, I've found it very useful for search tasks that involve putting a few pieces together. For example, I was looking for the floor plan of an apartment building I was conside…

Historically a storeroom for provisions in monasteries, in Oxford colleges it is where students get their food. Edit: To clarify, it is pretty much the cafeteria kitchen.

Are we going full circle from TV to streaming back to TV? Probably not, but I do really enjoy the discovery aspect as well as reducing the overwhelming options of streaming down to…

How has the LMB changed?

Your driveway drains to a nearby body of water, most likely, while your bathroom trains into sewage which is treated.

In both of your examples I could see the model becoming the default, with humans double-checking, if even that. If things go wrong as you describe, humans are pulled into the loop …

I live in Basel, Switzerland, where it is common sport to jump into the river Rhine on a hot day, and float right through historic downtown. It’s a marvellous thing, even just to w…