{"id":481,"date":"2011-03-02T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2011-03-02T18:06:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T18:06:00","slug":"my-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"My Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t think I’ve written about my research projects<\/a>, and since they always seem to be multiplying, I wanted to present them frozen here in time:<\/p>\n

Open Model for Climate Behaviors<\/b>: I applied for an EPA fellowship based on this. The idea is to construct a dynamic model of sufficient complexity that it’s possible to identify tipping points in the forces that affect American society’s climate behaviors. In other words, to build a system to help find small policy changes, which will grow to really change how people act. (Project Proposal<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Glaciers and Flooding in Himalayan River Basins<\/b>: The Himalayan glaciers are melting, and their rivers are flooding– might these be related? No one seems to have checked. But I have a bunch of remote sensing analysis and good modeling that might be close to an answer. (Working Paper<\/a>)<\/p>\n

System Regression Estimators<\/b>: My colleagues spend all their time running regressions, agonizing to find “exogenous” variables– variables which affect things but aren’t themselves affected. I don’t think such things exist, and I have some math that might let us give up the battle and estimate the relationships in whole systems, where everything affects everything else.<\/p>\n

Self-Organized Criticality in Ecology<\/b>: Self-organization is everywhere in human and natural systems, yet we’re only beginning to understand its implications. In particular, I think we’re very close to being able to describe ecological systems in the terms of self-organization, and I intend to give it a try.<\/p>\n

Beyond that is the long tail of projects. My Alternative Economics group last semester was enlightening, and remains a big interest for me. I thought my paper on the connection between the Creaturely Life and access to reality<\/a> was pretty successful. A couple weeks ago, I identified the size of hidden “poverty-or-wealth” sectors<\/a> missing from standard (two-sector) economic models. While not research, I recently open-sourced a bunch of artificial intelligence code<\/a> for natural language processing, built Flame a Droid app for Valentine’s day, and taught a class on unix and shell scripting<\/a>. Hopefully this summer I’ll have a chance to build some of three online projects I think would be powerful: a site that acts as a personal adviser for counterbalancing the unintended consequences of your purchases, a site to help volunteers self-organize on ambiguous projects, and a site to hold politicians accountable for their campaign promises.<\/p>\n

There’s a lot more I could say about all of these, but that’s a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t think I’ve written about my research projects, and since they always seem to be multiplying, I wanted to present them frozen here in time: Open Model for Climate Behaviors: I applied for an EPA fellowship based on this. The idea is to construct a dynamic model of sufficient complexity that it’s possible to … Continue reading My Research<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}