Monday, July 1, 2019

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PhilPapers - 'Validating Simulations' questions

Eckhart Arnold post -
- https://philpeople.org/feed_items/56556974
- https://philpeople.org/profiles/scott-gk-macleod/news


Hallo Eckhart, 

I just received a 'New items in your topics of interest' email from PhilPapers with your interesting & topical "Validation of Computer Simulations From a Kuhnian Perspective" - with regards to my seeking to facilitate the developing of a single realistic virtual earth and realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs for actual-virtual, physical-digital ethnographic and STEM modeling comparison, a potentially very different approach to 'validation' than in your paper. Per your http://eckhartarnold.de/EN/index.html, I also lived in Munich in 1981-1982 for 13 months, - in Studentenstadt und nacher in Garching bei der Familie Krueger, durch eine Quäker Verbindung! (Eckhart ist Physiker) (Here too is my home page - http://scottmacleod.com/ - Enjoy!) 

While my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' social science / humanities / anthropological and STEM simulation projects could involve video-to-simulation, 3D-to-realistic-virtual-earth applications or computer programs soon-ish, I'm thinking too in terms of Google Streetview with time slider / Maps / Earth / Tensorflow / Translate with realistic avatar bots and at the cellular and atomic levels which could eventually be used for tele-robotic surgery in conjunction with even Google/Stanford/Duke's Project Baseline and Project ECHO for online medical schools in some time. The method here I'm engaging involves a kind of 'build it out' approach / coding as making approach (and also ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy) and vis-a-vis Peter Norvig's thinking, head of Google AI, as well. (You'll find here Peter Norvig giving a talk in Vienna in 2015 - "Peter Norvig: How Computers Learn" - 
Check out around 38 mins a possible building of the virtual Harbin warm pool as one example of a simulation). How best to address philosophical questions, as well as validation questions in very different ways than your excellent analyses are questions I'm interested in. While this approach would bridge theory and empiricism in a Kuhnian sense, adding a variety of simulations (touched on in your paper, for ex.) to a single realistic virtual earth, Google-centric, could offer a whole new approach to philosophical validation questions. 

I'm also developing CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World University and School for online university and high school degrees in each of all ~200 countries' official and main languages, and such a realistic virtual earth is intended for scientists to be able to add their STEM simulations as research to a single realistic virtual universe, and also as 'classrooms.' See, too: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Philosophy and many more related wiki Subjects - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects.

How would you begin philosophically to address questions of validation, brainstorming-wise, in terms of this new approach to simulations I've explored above, Eckhart? 


And might I explore please even coming to Munich and giving a talk about some of these questions at some point? (I can share some talks I've given at UC Berkeley on related simulation questions).

And do you happen to know Stanford SLAC's Tom Abel, originally from Bavaria? 

All the best, Scott


P.S. 
Here's what I have in mind by a 3D interactive realistic virtual universe / earth and at the atomic / cellular levels too in something like Google Street View with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth / Translate +++ : Visit the Harbin Hot Springs' gate here, and "walk" "4 miles" down the road to "amble" around Middletown, CA: http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~


Jun 29th 2019 GMT
  1. Validation of Computer Simulations From a Kuhnian Perspective. Eckhart Arnold - 2019 - In Computer Simulation Validation - Fundamental Concepts, Methodological Frameworks, and Philosophical Perspectives. Heidelberg, Deutschland: pp. 203-224.
    While Thomas Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions does not specifically deal with validation, the validation of simulations can be related in various ways to Kuhn's theory: 1) Computer simulations are sometimes depicted as located between experiments and theoretical reasoning, thus potentially blurring the line between theory and empirical research. Does this require a new kind of research logic that is different from the classical paradigm which clearly distinguishes between theory and empirical observation? I argue that this is not the case. 2) Another typical feature of computer simulations is their being ``motley'' (Winsberg 2003) with respect to the various premises that enter into simulations. A possible consequence is that in case of failure it can become difficult to tell which of the premises is to blame. Could this issue be understood as fostering Kuhn's mild relativism with respect to theory choice? I argue that there is no need to worry about relativism with respect to computer simulations, in particular. 3) The field of social simulations, in particular, still lacks a common understanding concerning the requirements of empirical validation of simulations. Does this mean that social simulations are still in a pre-scientific state in the sense of Kuhn? My conclusion is that despite ongoing efforts to promote quality standards in this field, lack of proper validation is still a problem of many published simulation studies and that, at least large parts of social simulations must be considered as pre-scientific.




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