CPN Tools 4: Minor Features

Aside from the big new features, CPN Tools 4 also introduces a lot of useful minor features.  Here is a mixed grab-bag of those.  In this post, I’ll show the new model statistics, new simulation stop criteria, and the simplified state-space analysis. Model Statistics It is often useful to know some statistics of a model […]

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CPN Tools 4: New Types

CPN Tools 4 adds a couple new types to make modeling easier.  The new types are intinf, real and time.  These types makes it easier to construct readable models as we no longer have to represent large numbers using strings, we can use real values without any rounding, and we can directly embed time stamps […]

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How to Lie With Pretty Figures

This video has been making its rounds a year ago or so.  Now it’s getting its second wind.  It seems horrible (if you’re a socialist), but let’s endeavor my favorite hobby: fact-checking: The video shows some charts, first how people think wealth is distributed, how they think it should be distributed and how it is […]

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