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Prof. Frey’s lecture draws a fundamental distinction between “playing for the mean” and “playing for the max.” How does this distinction dictate the optimal strategy for decision-making in the provided model?

In NetLogo, as in most other computer programs, it is good coding practice to clean the workspace as a first step of the program. What have we used in NetLogo?

In NetLogo, when you want your agent to move randomly forward by choosing between 0 steps (stay put) and up to 4 steps (that is, 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4), as we have done, what would be your code?

In out last integrative lab, we used Gephi to identify some video URLs that were shared by both YouTube channels. How did we get from the node in the network graph to the URL?

In Sugarscape Model #1, our very first version, which item is a variable trait (changes each tick) rather than a fixed/given trait?

Which description best characterizes an AI agent (as defined in the lecture) rather than a foundational model alone?

In NetLogo, if you want to define the color of a certain pixel of a background patch, in contrast to defining the color of an agent, how would you specify that?

What does it mean that a network is scale-free?

Two models predict Tinder dating preferences: Model A uses 5 lines of code for females aged 18-21, while Model B uses 4 lines of code for all users. Applying Occam’s razor, which should be preferred?

What does the Sugarscape model (developed by Epstein and Axtell in “Growing Artificial Societies”?) primarily illustrate about the concept of social emergence?