Course material for Complex Systems 530 – Computer Modeling for Complex Systems
This term, I'm teaching Complex Systems 530 - Computer Modeling for Complex Systems at the University of Michigan Center for the
Predicting the Supreme Court
One of the more exciting and public projects we've been working on lately has finally come to light - our Supreme Court
Advanced approximate sentence matching in Python
In our last post, we went over a range of options to perform approximate sentence matching in Python, an import task for
Featured in Wired: Measuring the Complexity of the Law
Thanks to Sam Arbesman (@arbesman) for featuring Dan and my paper, Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The United States
Is there tax in the cloud?
Do you contract for IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS services like Amazon Web Services or SalesForce? Do you provide SaaS services
Benchmarking the new AWS Postgres RDS instances
Postgres has finally come to RDS! Want to know how these instances stack up on a naive pgbench test? Below
Monitoring AWS VPC tunnels
While many Amazon Web Services resources with "state" have CloudWatch sensors available, AWS VPCs and tunnels unfortunately do not. If
Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The U.S. Code
Four years ago, Dan Katz and I began working on a project to measure the complexity of the law. Its genesis was, in every
Plotting average read and write operation size by ASM disk for Oracle
Throughput, throughput, throughput - for many databases, this is the performance measure of importance. When you are working with a fixed number of IOPS
Plotting Oracle RMAN backup durations with R
How long does your Oracle RMAN backup take to complete? How does this vary over time? Are there patterns by week, week of month,
Revisiting text processing with R and Python
Back in 2011, I covered the relative performance difference of the most popular libraries for text processing in R and Python. In case you
Law’s Future from Finance’s Past: Recorded Talk from Reinvent Law Silicon Valley
Back in March, I posted the slides to my talk at the Silicon Valley Reinvent Law event - Law's Future from Finance's Past. Last week,
Generating SSH config from AWS hosts using boto
As a consultant and advisor to many firms running on or investigating AWS, I find SSH host and key management to be a constant