by Pascal Gambardella, Ph.D. | Apr 27, 2018 | Modeling, Neuro-Semantics
You have a craving for ice cream. So you go out late one night and bring home a container of Talenti Gelato. At home, you discover you can’t unscrew the top, even after trying for many hours. I’ll use this situation and others to help illustrate patterns that study...
by Pascal Gambardella, Ph.D. | Jan 15, 2018 | Modeling, Neuro-Semantics, System Dynamics
Introduction “While still a kitten, all fluff and buzzes, Pete had worked out a simple philosophy. I was in charge of quarters, rations, and weather; he was in charge of everything else. But he held me especially responsible for weather. Connecticut winters are...
by Pascal Gambardella, Ph.D. | Sep 7, 2017 | Modeling, Neuro-Semantics
Being “I have always wanted to be someone else.” Imagine that as the title of a memoir. Is it a story about a schizophrenic, about years in psychiatric hospitals, or perhaps about living in the vivid fantasy world of a Walter Mitty? For me, at this time of my life, it...
by Pascal Gambardella, Ph.D. | Jul 9, 2017 | History, Modeling, System Dynamics
Finding Modeling Projects Do I find modeling projects, or do they find me? (updated December 19, 2019) The former was true when I was looking for PhD thesis subjects in the early 1970s. Often in graduate training, a person’s thesis adviser would assign his students a...
by Pascal Gambardella, Ph.D. | May 31, 2017 | Modeling, Neuro-Semantics
I do two activities to relax, one is to solve mathematics problems and the other is to create resource maps. “Resource maps” are diagrams (and models) that define, capture, explain, and illustrate relationships between key concepts. They can be concept maps, mind...
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