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The First Steps Towards Asimov's Psychohistory?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the formulaic-relationships dept.

lawrencekhoo writes "The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interesting article about the Gottman Institute's (a.k.a. the love lab) work on modeling the dynamics of marital conversations. These models are described in John Gottman et. al.'s recent book The Mathematics of Marriage: Dynamic Nonlinear Models (MIT Press). Should be an interesting read for anyone who ever wondered if human interactions could be mathematically modeled."

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  1. I don't have money by benna · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This sounds interesting but I can't afford a subscription to that site. :(

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  2. Re:movie ever in the making for the Foundation Ser by anagama · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Absolutely - it could be incredible. On the other hand, the movie version of Nightfall (an Asimov collaboration with Robert Silverberg) was just dreadful. I'd be especially interested in the Mule - that would be a really neat character if done right.

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  3. Re:Useless...WHY EDITORS WHY! by I-R-Baboon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I gotta put this on the floor...

    Why the HELL do /. editors combing through stories post a story with a freaking link to register to read a story?!?!?!!!

    SCROO THAT!

    Now...mod this into the background

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  4. best model to date by BigBir3d · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    -0

    - 0

    where

    - is a penis

    and

    0 is a hole

    oscillate whenever possible