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ted a few entries to the thriving sociology of zombies literature his abstracts including a description of zombie habitus are all funny but for my money the most sublime satire is his rational choice marginal analysis of zombie equilibrium il faut comprendre les zombis en restituant les bonnes raisons de devenir zombis afin de le faire apparaître comme un comportement rationnel ainsi le choix de devenir ou non zombi dépend avant tout d un calcul en fonction du rendement espéré de cette transformation l agrégation de ces comportements se traduit par un effet émergents à savoir la réduction du nombre d humains non zombifiés ce qui réduit les gains de sa propre zombification on peut ainsi parler d une inflation zombifique comme pour les diplômes it s been a long time since lycée but here s my loose translation we can understand zombies by restoring the good reasons to become zombies and thus make it apparent that it is a rational behavior thus the choice to become a zombie or not depends primarily a calculation based on the expected value of this transformation the aggregation of these behaviors results in an emergent phenomenon that is increasing the number of zombies reduces the marginal value of zombification we can thus speak of zombification inflation as with credential inflation for diplomas october 23 2009 at 12 29 pm gr 1 comment time machine and rsync gabriel i think time machine is one of the best features of leopard snow leopard but i still have a few issues with it first i m really not interested in having a spotlight index of my time machine drive so i go to system preferences spotlight privacy and add my time machine volume to the do not index list this isn t so much a privacy issue as a performance issue since the spotlight indexer mdworker is a real hog so why have it index stuff you don t plan to search second time machine doesn t work well with more than one backup volume especially if you want to update one of the backups infrequently or backup different directories to each drive in my case i have a large drive that i keep at work and a small backup drive that i keep at home in case my office burns down and destroys both my mac and the big backup drive to use time machine for both disks i would not only need to select disk but also exclude items because the disk i keep at home isn t big enough to hold everything furthermore if i skip a few weeks of backing up to the home disk time machine refuses to do an incremental backup my solution to this is to use time machine for the main backup drive and rsync for the second one every day i use time machine with my big backup drive at the office once a week or so at home i take my redundant backup drive seagate out of the drawer plug it in and run this shell script bin bash backup_seagate sh rsync ae delete documents volumes seagate rossman documents rsync ae delete library volumes seagate rossman library rsync ae delete scripts volumes seagate rossman scripts rsync ae delete pictures volumes seagate rossman pictures rsync ae delete music volumes seagate rossman music rsync ae delete applications volumes seagate rossman applications note that the version of rsync that ships with os 10 5 or 10 6 is pretty old if you install the current version it will handle the resource fork more efficiently there are instructions here but for my purposes it s not worth the hassle update1 usb flash drives work well as your off site backup because they are easier to transport than hard drives being smaller and lacking moving parts however you ll need to use disk utility to change the file system from fat to hfs update2 be careful with rsync as the syntax is important it needs to be command options source target if you reverse source and target you re pretty much screwed october 23 2009 at 5 04 am gr towards a sociology of living death gabriel daniel drezner had a post a few months ago talking about how international relations scholars of the four major schools would react to a zombie epidemic aside from the sheer fun of talking about something as silly as zombies it has much the same illuminating satiric purpose as how many x does it take to screw in a lightbulb jokes if you have even a cursory familiarity with ir it is well worth reading here s my humble attempt to do the same for several schools within sociology note that i m not even to get into the foucauldian whose to say that life is normal and living death is deviant stuff because really it would be too easy also i wrote this post last week and originally planned to save it for halloween but i figured i d move it up given that zombieland is doing so well with critics and at the box office public opinion consider the statement that zombies are a growing problem in society would you strongly disagree somewhat disagree neither agree nor disagree somewhat agree strongly agree um how do i know you re really with norc and not just here to eat my brain criminology in some areas e g pittsburgh raccoon city zombification is now more common that attending college or serving in the military and must be understood as a modal life course event furthermore as seen in audit studies employers are unwilling to hire zombies and so the mark of zombification has persistent and reverberating effects throughout undeath at least until complete decomposition and putrefecation however race trumps humanity as most employers prefer to hire a white zombie over a black human cultural toolkit being mindless zombies have no cultural toolkit rather the great interest is understanding how the cultural toolkits of the living develop and are invoked during unsettled times of uncertainty such as an onslaught of walking corpses the human being besieged by zombies is not constrained by culture but draws upon it actors can draw upon such culturally informed tools as boarding up the windows of a farmhouse shotgunning the undead or simply falling into panicked blubbering categorization there s a kind of categorical legitimacy problem to zombies initially zombies were supernaturally animated dead they were sluggish but relentlessness and they sought to eat human brains in contrast more recent zombies tend to be infected with a virus that leaves them still living in a biological sense but alters their behavior so as to be savage oblivious to pain and nimble furthermore even supernatural zombies are not a homogenous set but encompass varying degrees of decomposition thus the first issue with zombies is defining what is a zombie and if it is commensurable with similar categories like an inferius in harry potter this categorical uncertainty has effects in that insurance underwriters systematically undervalue life insurance policies against monsters that are ambiguous to categorize zombies as compared to those that fall into a clearly delineated category vampires neo institutionalism saving humanity from the hordes of the undead is a broad goal that is easily decoupled from the means used to achieve it especially given that human survivors need legitimacy in order to command access to scarce resources e g shotgun shells gasoline it is more important to use strategies that are perceived as legitimate by trading partners i e other terrified humans you re trying to recruit into your improvised human survival cooperative than to develop technically efficient means of dispatching the living dead although early on strategies for dealing with the undead panic hole up here until help arrives we have to get out of the city developing a vaccine etc are practiced where they are most technically efficient once a strategy achieves legitimacy it spreads via isomorphism to technically inappropriate contexts population ecology improvised human survival cooperatives ihsc demonstrate the liability of newness in that many are overwhelmed and devoured immediately after formation furthermore ihsc demonstrate the essentially fixed nature of organizations as those ihsc that attempt to change core strategy eg from let s hole up here until help arrives to we have to get out of the city show a greatly increased hazard for being overwhelmed and devoured diffusion viral zombieism e g resident evil 28 days later tends to start with a single patient zero whereas supernatural zombieism e g night of the living dead the thriller video tends to start with all recently deceased bodies rising from the grave by seeing whether the diffusion curve for zombieism more closely approximates a bass mixed influence model or a classic s curve we can estimate whether zombieism is supernatural or viral and therefore whether policy makers should direct grants towards biomedical labs to develop a zombie vaccine or the catholic church to give priests a crash course in the neglected art of exorcism furthermore marketers can plug plausible assumptions into the bass model so as to make projections of the size of the zombie market over time and thus how quickly to start manufacturing such products as brain flavored doritos social movements the dominant debate is the extent to which anti zombie mobilization represents changes in the political opportunity structure brought on by complete societal collapse as compared to an essentially expressive act related to cultural dislocation and contested space supporting the latter interpretation is that zombie hunting militias are especially likely to form in counties that have seen recent increases in immigration the finding holds even when controlling for such variables as gun registrations log distance to the nearest army administered safe zone etc family zombieism doesn t just affect individuals but families having a zombie in the family involves an average of 25 hours of care work per week including such tasks as going to the butcher to buy pig brains repairing the boarding that keeps the zombie securely in the basement and away from the rest of the family and washing a variety of stains out of the zombie s tattered clothing almost all of this care work is performed by women and very little of it is done by paid care workers as no care worker in her right mind is willing to be in a house with a zombie applied micro economics we combine two unique datasets the first being military satellite imagery of zombie mobs and the second records salvaged from the wreckage of exxon mobil headquarters showing which gas stations were due to be refueled just before the start of the zombie epidemic since humans can use salvaged gasoline either to set the undead on fire or to power vehicles chainsaws etc we have a source of plausibly exogenous heterogeneity in showing which neighborhoods were more or less hospitable environments for zombies we show that zombies tended to shuffle towards neighborhoods with low stocks of gasoline hence we find that zombies respond to incentives just like school teachers and sumo wrestlers and crack dealers and realtors and hookers grounded theory one cannot fully appreciate zombies by imposing a pre existing theoretical framework on zombies only participant observation can allow one to provide a thick description of the mindless zombie perspective unfortunately scientistic institutions tend to be unsupportive of this kind of research major research funders reject as too vague and insufficiently theory driven proposals that describe the intention to see what findings emerge from roaming about feasting on the living likewise irb panels raise issues about whether a zombie can give informed consent and whether it is ethical to kill the living and eat their brains ethnomethodology zombieism is not so much a state of being as a set of practices and cultural scripts it is not that one is a zombie but that one does being a zombie such that zombieism is created and enacted through interaction even if one is objectively a mindless animated corpse one cannot really be said to be fulfilling one s cultural role as a zombie unless one shuffles across the landscape in search of brains conversation analysis 1 human hello 0 5 uh i uh ya know is anyone in there 2 zombie1 br ai ns 3 zombie2 br ain s 4 zombie1 b r ains 5 human uh i uh li ke hello 6 zombie1 br ai ns 7 0 5 8 human die motherfuckers 9 shotgun bang 0 1 10 zombie1 aa ar gg gh 11 shotgun chk chk 0 1 bang october 13 2009 at 4 24 am gr 21 comments probability distributions gabriel i wrote this little demo for my stats class to show how normal distributions result from complex processes that sum the constituent parts whereas count distributions result from complex processes where a single constituent failure is catastrophic this do file is a simple demo of how you statistical distributions are built up from additive vs sudden death causation this is entirely based on a simulated coin toss the function round uniform one either counts how many heads out of 10 tosses or how long a streak of heads lasts i m building up from this simple function for pedagogical purposes in actual programming there are much more direct functions like rnormal 1 the normal distribution failure is an additive setback clear set obs 1000 forvalues var 1 10 quietly gen x var forvalues row 1 1000 forvalues var 1 10 quietly replace x var round uniform in row gen sumheads x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7 x8 x9 x10 order sumheads lab var sumheads how many heads out of 10 flips show five examples list in 1 5 histogram sumheads discrete normal graph export sumheads png replace 2 count distribution failure is catastrophic clear set obs 1000 forvalues var 1 30 quietly gen x var gen streak 0 lab var streak consecutive heads before first tails gen fail 0 forvalues row 1 1000 forvalues var 1 30 quietly replace x var round uniform in row quietly replace fail 1 if x var 0 quietly replace streak var if fail 0 quietly replace fail in row row quietly replace streak 0 if x1 0 show five partial examples list streak x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 in 1 5 histogram streak discrete graph export streakheads png replace have a nice day october 12 2009 at 5 41 pm gr the winner is gabriel washington the american sociological association announced today that it is giving the distinguished book award to the prospectus for climbing the chart by gabriel rossman in a statement the asa prize committee said they were awarding the prize for the prospectus s extraordinary efforts to synthesize sociology of culture economic sociology and social networks appearing in his front yard professor rossman said he was surprised and deeply humbled by the committee s decision mostly because he hasn t finished writing the book yet previous asa book awards have gone to such completed manuscripts as charles tilly s durable inequality however professor rossman quickly put to rest any speculation that he might not accept the honor describing the award as an affirmation of the production of culture paradigm s leadership on behalf of aspirations to scientific rigor held by scholars in all sociological subfields he said he would accept it as a call to action to be honest professor rossman said i do not feel that i deserve to b...