What is simulation, and what is it good for?
Curious if you are planning to cover some of the fuss about "Digital Twins" in your lectures.
Is "Digital Twin" anything more than an oddly popular buzzword for simulator? I have not found any evidence to the contrary.
Precisely! I say it all the time and folks get all defensive and attack me---now I'll cite your comment ;)
Thanks!
Projections, commonly used in economic and energy policy analysis are a particular kind of simulation, often confused with prediction
https://theconversation.com/please-no-more-projections-what-we-need-are-predictions-and-theyre-harder-126734
What's the full citation for Zakka et al.? Thank you for yet another insightful post, Ben.
Ah, it's the survey I linked earlier in the post.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08844
I should have called out Kevin by name there.
Thanks, Ben.
Curious if you are planning to cover some of the fuss about "Digital Twins" in your lectures.
Is "Digital Twin" anything more than an oddly popular buzzword for simulator? I have not found any evidence to the contrary.
Precisely! I say it all the time and folks get all defensive and attack me---now I'll cite your comment ;)
Thanks!
Projections, commonly used in economic and energy policy analysis are a particular kind of simulation, often confused with prediction
https://theconversation.com/please-no-more-projections-what-we-need-are-predictions-and-theyre-harder-126734
What's the full citation for Zakka et al.? Thank you for yet another insightful post, Ben.
Ah, it's the survey I linked earlier in the post.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08844
I should have called out Kevin by name there.
Thanks, Ben.