## Blog Posts

• Estimating and cross-validating the Schelling segregation model with freelunch
February 18, 2021

Introducing a new R package to estimate parameters from simulations via reference tables

• Genetic algorithms for under-identified models
November 23, 2020

A brief comment on a very cool paper coming to terms with under-identification in agent-based models by tricking a genetic algorithm to do some more exploration than what we usually get from calibration techniques

• Management strategy evaluation is a great framework and ABM should steal it!
October 26, 2020

A few notes on estimating parameters in agent-based models, trying to tie together the literature and identify the disparate objectives we are trying to achieve

• Estimating agent-based models
September 22, 2020

A few notes on estimating parameters in agent-based models, trying to tie together the literature and identify the disparate objectives we are trying to achieve

• Using MASON and IntelliJ
January 22, 2019

A short guide to setup MASON with Intellij

• Running an ABM Hackaton
September 20, 2018

A quick post-mortem on a 3-day burst of agent-based modelling from scratch

• Kuliah Tamu
July 23, 2018

A guest lecture at the KKP in Indonesia

• Indirect inference through prediction - a tutorial
July 13, 2018

You built a simulation model and now you want to tune its parameters to data; here's an easy way to do it. A pared down example about this arXiv preprint

• Double Edged Rejoinder
July 22, 2016

A cool article on the philosophy of simulation science is up on JASSS. I like the idea and the execution but I think the fear of “equifinality” is overstated.

• My Dissertation Defense
June 07, 2015

I completed my dissertation defense on Friday. It went reasonably well. I was pleased I could embed the Dart version of the model straight into my slides. I am amazed that RMarkdown + ioslides + dart work so well together. The only thing I couldn’t do was to have the model learn on its own when a slide was called so that I always need to press “reset” before “start” when a slide containing the model shows up. Minor inconvenience but still.

• Agent based fishing
February 04, 2015

Conservation notice: this is a simple model I cobbled up in about a week both as a spike to test the capabilities of google maps APIs and as a demo for a post-doc job. The code is open-source on MIT license. It was programmed in pure dart.

January 20, 2015
• Big Ideas in Macroeconomics -- A book review
September 04, 2014

A very good book. To read. Detailed, learned and thorough. Also deeply flawed.

• Common Control Models in Differential Equation Format
June 28, 2014

If you are like me and spent months looking for these, you are welcome. For everyone else, these are just common approximative models used in control theory to fit processes to. Unfortunately they are always expressed as Laplace transforms. S-space isn’t very useful to me, I really need processes in time. All credit to this stackexchange answer. An explanation of its math is here. Thank you, kind strangers.

• A Model of Lancasterian Competition
April 18, 2014

I want to try and apply PID controllers to monopolistic competition. Partially because monopolistic competition is more interesting, but partially because I don’t like the way some ABMs model it.