Narula: Improbable partners with Oxford to model the UK housing economy
Herman Narula · a16z Podcast | The Cool Stuff Only Happens at Scale · Jan 2, 2019 · at 10:51
Herman Narula, founder and CEO of simulation technology firm Improbable, shares an active client project demonstrating agent-based economic modeling.
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“So, I mean, for example, we're dealing with a group called the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford, and these are some amazing scientists, and they want to model the UK housing economy.”
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