Author: anardy
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“Crowdoscopy” : the scientific observation of the crowd
The status of Sociology as a science is regularly disputed. The sociology is repeatedly attacked for its lack of experimentation, lack of predictive power, lack of generalization, lack of accurate measurements, and so on… This often boils down to a hard fight between natural science (often coined as “hard science”), and humanities (often coined as […]
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What is a software (and its source-code) ?
This paper was first published on the website of my employer “Amiltone” in french. I here propose a less SEO-friendly translation to English. Computers experienced increasing democratization from the 1980s in the West. Firstly it was a work tool available to a minority of business executives. Then it became a tool available to privileged households. […]