Free online complex systems course by Scott Page!
Yesterday I talked with Scott E. Page from the University of Michigan and Santa Fe Institute and he pointed me to an amazing opportunity. He will be teaching a free online course on complex systems and modeling. The course is called Model Thinking and will start in mid to late January. Scott has a short video introduction to the course on the site.
This seems almost too good to be true. Scott is a fantastic teacher — I have been lucky to co-teach course with him at the University of Michigan and in the ICPSR summer program. He's the author of The Difference, Diversity and Complexity, and Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life. He's a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The list goes on and on. He is a super clear thinker and has an infectious enthusiasm for modeling and complex systems.
I would recommend this course to anyone who isn't on the verge of finding a cure for cancer or solving world hunger, because otherwise whatever your doing probably won't be more impactful than taking this course.
I'm actually taking this course online, and it is incredibly interesting. One of the suggested readings for it is a paper that you co-wrote with Scott Page: "Tipping Points." I've just started it, but I love how clear the logic and the thinking is in it.
Anyway, thanks for the recommendation. I only stumbled upon the course because of this post.
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