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Three reasons I can no longer be a Facebook user

Facebook erodes journalistic integrity.  Facebook takes power and money away from journalists and small news shops. See Reuters article. The latest example is the hostile and hardball plays with the Australian government to not pay journalists for the content they create and Facebook profits from. See WSJ article. Facebook makes no distinction between suitable, fact-checked …

Modeling Consumer Decisions: Sustainability and Fashion

This is an academic paper for Computational Economics Course at Davidson College with Dr. Shyam Gouri Suresh. Written December 10th 2021. Introduction Climate change is a severe global problem that needs to be addressed immediately. Fashion – especially fast fashion –  is a significant contributor to environmental degradation. Research by McKinsey & Co. indicates that …

Creole Language Evolution in an Agent-Based Model

This is an academic paper for Computational Economics Course at Davidson College with Dr. Shyam Gouri Suresh. Written November 12th 2021. This paper was a group project with Clay Tribus ’22 and Sam Cascio ’22. Introduction Creole languages are a type of language that emerges when groups of people who do not share a common …

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