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The purpose of this document is to collect information and notes related to patcon's OCF fellowship conversations. General Notes *TFD = Taiwan Foundation for Democracy *OCF.

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Social Physics

From one of the world's leading data scientists, a landmark tour of the new science of idea flow, offering revolutionary insights into the mysteries of collective intelligence and social influence If the Big Data revolution has a presiding genius, it is MIT's Alex "Sandy" Pentland. Over years of groundbreaking experiments, he has distilled remarkable discoveries significant enough to become the bedrock of a whole new scientific field: social physics. Humans have more in common with bees than we like to admit: We're social creatures first and foremost. Our most important habits of action--and most basic notions of common sense--are wired into us through our coordination in social groups. Social physics is about idea flow, the way human social networks spread ideas and transform those ideas into behaviors. Thanks to the millions of digital bread crumbs people leave behind via smartphones, GPS devices, and the Internet, the amount of new information we have about human activity is truly profound. Until now, sociologists have depended on limited data sets and surveys that tell us how people say they think and behave, rather than what they actually do. As a result, we've been stuck with the same stale social structures--classes, markets--and a focus on individual actors, data snapshots, and steady states. Pentland shows that, in fact, humans respond much more powerfully to social incentives that involve rewarding others and strengthening the ties that bind than incentives that involve only their own economic self-interest. Pentland and his teams have found that they can study patterns of information exchange in a social network without any knowledge of the actual content of the information and predict with stunning accuracy how productive and effective that network is, whether it's a business or an entire city. We can maximize a group's collective intelligence to improve performance and use social incentives to create new organizations and guide them through disruptive change in a way that maximizes the good. At every level of interaction, from small groups to large cities, social networks can be tuned to increase exploration and engagement, thus vastly improving idea flow. Social Physics will change the way we think about how we learn and how our social groups work--and can be made to work better, at every level of society. Pentland leads readers to the edge of the most important revolution in the study of social behavior in a generation, an entirely new way to look at life itself.

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ttcat 2018-09-19 16:58:01

Interesting!

patcon 2018-09-26 13:27:16

cc @klaikongv

YouTube

Sandy Pentland: "Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread" | Talks at Google

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since im taking maternity leave soon, i’ll leave your awesome research work to my awesome colleagues in Taipei.

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lilin 2018-09-20 10:35:31

it’s October 27th by the way (but klaikong will have been back then already?)

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vtaiwan.kktix.cc

vTaiwan - KKTIX

行政院虛擬世界發展法規調適規劃方案的線上法規討論平台，由資策會科技法律研院所與 g0v <http://vTaiwan.tw|vTaiwan.tw> 專案參與者共同建置，為每項提案徵集工作組，進而提出建議規格、形成法規草案。

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patcon 2018-09-27 19:26:07

Brian Hioe, last year's fellow who does interviewing for his work, said that you're right, and we _definitely_ want to provide all questions to participants in advance. He said people are understanding if other spontaneous questions come up, but that having the pre-written ones help them feel comfortable going in.

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patcon 2018-09-28 22:38:32

Sure thing! when might the new code might be available? :)

klaikongv 2018-09-29 00:53:32

Roger that, I didn’t buy the ticket yet.

patcon 2018-09-30 22:22:50

@klaikongv fyi, we can buy with cash via the "famiport" payment option. Just order ticket online, select that option, then go to a Family Mart and use the famiport terminal: http://support.kktix.com/knowledgebase/articles/451021

You'll be able to print off a receipt and pay at the cash register of the market

patcon 2018-09-30 22:23:56

The terminal screenshots will be slightly different, but buttons are all in same place onscreen

patcon 2018-10-01 11:52:33

Any update on code, @pellaeon?

pellaeon 2018-10-01 12:11:07

Sorry for the delay, it is confirmed that you can use the original code to register