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Anders

aaspnas@kirja.casa

Joined 2 years, 3 months ago

Reading books of various genres, mostly Nordic Crime, Information Technology, Science and Fiction, Science and whatever I happen to find. I like to read mostly from paper, either pocket or hard cover, but also occasionally finish reading an e-book. I read books in Swedish, Finnish, English and German depending on what is available.

My reading history is available over at Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/show/76763164-anders

I work as a Technical Architect in a large Information Technology corporation and live in Turku, Finland.

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Erica Thompson: Escape from Model Land (2022, Basic Books)

Limits of models

Not the first book I would recommend on creating model systems of real world phenomena, but fairly interesting on what models can do and what they can't tell us about our world. The books contain examples and descriptions about climate modelling and Covid19 spread but does not go into any greater detail regarding the models them selves, but more describe the shortcoming of models in how they are used. As such it brings useful insight that model creators and stakeholders should familiarise themselves with.