By all means, let us use simulation to push out the boundaries of our understanding; but just running a lot of simulations and seeing what happens is a frustrating and finally unproductive exercise unless you can somehow create a ‘model of the model’ that lets you understand what is going on.
Paul Krugman, economist.
via Seed Magazine
Jaw-dropping innovation from Microsoft? Fascinating.
How long until we see something like this in stores?
insane