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Why does individual learning endure when crowds are wiser?
Benoît de Courson, Léo Fitouchi, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud +1
The ability to learn from others (social learning) is often deemed a cause of human species success. But if social learning is indeed more efficient (whether less costly or more ac…
From Ants to Fishing Vessels: A Simple Model for Herding and Exploitation of Finite Resources
José Moran, Antoine Fosset, Alan Kirman +1
We analyse the dynamics of fishing vessels with different home ports in an area where these vessels, in choosing where to fish, are influenced by their own experience in the past a…
Schrödinger's ants: A continuous description of Kirman's recruitment model
José Moran, Antoine Fosset, Michael Benzaquen +1
We show how the approach to equilibrium in Kirman's ants model can be fully characterized in terms of the spectrum of a Schrödinger equation with a Pöschl-Teller () potenti…