The Ledger
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Narula: PC Platforms Like Steam Present Steep UX Barriers For Mobile Gamers
“A lot of people had previously played mobile games. And one of the requirements was to download the game from Steam in order to interact with it. These weren't like hardcore gamers. Just the click process in Steam was utterly alien to them. I mean, these are p…”
Narula: Historical data cannot answer what-if questions about unprecedented events
“You can answer questions, right? Answer those what if questions? What happens if, you know, a disease is released in this crowd? What happens if we shut down this tube station? Questions which governments and companies want to answer, but which, you know, you …”
Narula: Emergent complexity in simulations challenges preconceived domain assumptions
“Analytical methods, they come with a certain degree of certainty and trust, right? Like, I can exactly explain to you why, how and why this works, but emerging complexity is unpredictable. It's scary. The results may not be what you What you expect, and it has…”
Narula: Simulations should function as operating platforms, not static offline models
“At Improbable, we don't really believe that a simulation should be this, like, standalone box where knowledge comes out of. We see it as an operating platform, somewhere that you can actually make decisions and build applications that consume that simulation.”
Narula: Adding spatial parameters to Prisoner's Dilemma simulations radically alters outcomes
“When you just run prisoner's dilemma style games between participants, okay, you get one outcome. But when you start to introduce geographic components to those simulations, suddenly it all changes again.”