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Re:When old historic maps overlap with modern political maps by derbOac on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @01:45PM (#31343361)
One thing that's become very interesting to me is whether there's a way to formalize the presence of these kinds of path dependencies in models (sociological, psychological, epidemiological, system, whatever) so they don't become these kind of implicit ghost (butterfly?) effects that are mismodeled and misinterpreted. How do we avoid overlooking them? Seems like it's something that happens a lot.
Re:When old historic maps overlap with modern political maps by falling_ on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @02:07PM (#31343670)
Isn’t that the point of version control? Just make a list of (encountered problem) -> (enacted solution) mappings to keep track.