Complex Systems
Upon reading 'The economy needs agent-based modelling'
A haiku, written after reading Farmer & Foley, The economy needs agent-based modelling (Nature, 460, 6 August 2009) as assigned by Laurent Hébert-Dufresne for CS/CSYS 302 Modeling Complex Systems.
Decision, choice, whim —
Who was it who decided
We are rational?
— For J.
All models are wrong
All models are wrong. Some models are useful.
— George E.P. Box