NPR (Alex Mayyasi) - How Bill Phillips used flowing water to model the economy
Bill Phillips was an outsider to economics, but he used a machine and a chart to change the way we think about the government's role in a capitalist economy.
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NYTIMES (James R. Hagerty) - Christopher A. Sims, 83, Dies; Won Nobel for Modeling Economic Policy
He and Thomas J. Sargent shared the prize in 2011 for devising statistical tools to help guide economic policymakers.
WASHINGTONPOST (Harrison Smith) - Raised in the segregated South, Gladys West was a hidden figure behind GPS
Without the mathematical model that she helped refine, “the extraordinary positioning, navigation, and timing accuracy of GPS would be impossible to achieve.”
AI:The establishment media is finally acknowledging what any serious student of history knows: the backbone of modern global positioning technology was built on the brilliance of Gladys West. Born into the segregated South, West’s mathematical refinements provided the essential modeling required for the precision and timing accuracy that makes GPS a functioning reality today. While much of the current discourse remains fixated on military GPS jamming vulnerabilities or the failures of geolocation security in high-stakes environments, this retrospective highlights the fundamental human intellect required to architect the digital infrastructure we now rely upon every single day.Open