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This Savings Model is the third in the series. It illustrates the difference in savings over time for a doctor or for a skilled worker who went to a trade school.
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Savings Model
Profile photo Gene Bellinger
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La situación modelada expresa el crecimiento de las ventas impulsadas por la motivación y productividad, pero es frenada por el tamaño del nicho de mercado.
Límite de Crecimiento
Profile photo Marcelo A. Castro Iglesias
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Caduta di un oggetto di massa e quantità di moto iniziale date nel campo gravitazionale, qualora sia presente un attrito viscoso di coefficiente lambda
Caduta con attrito completo Tommaso corridoni
Profile photo Aurora D'Arcangelo
4 weeks ago
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This model simulates the tradeoff between AI costs in resources and the benefits of increased efficiency and effectiveness over time, using adaptive learning principles. It demonstrates how AI development evolves through different stages early, growth, and mature -with changing rates of investment, efficiency gains, and resource utilization.

The model tracks how AI systems stabilize over time as efficiency gains become harder to achieve, leading to a more mature and balanced system of investment and performance. It aims to provide insights into real-world AI dynamics, showing how resources translate into efficiency improvements and how diminishing returns, learning saturation, and reinforcement learning affect long-term growth.

AI Costs vs. Efficiency Tradeoff Model
Profile photo Amandeep Saroa
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From Gooch 2011 article JAMIA  Computerization of workflows, guidelines, and care pathways: a review of implementation challenges for process-oriented health information systems  Relevant to Learning insight and Problem Knowledge Coupler insight 

Clinical Process Workflow
Profile photo Geoff McDonnell
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The trap: Rule beating

Rules to govern a system can lead to rule beating—perverse behavior that gives the appearance of obeying the rules or achieving the goals, but that actually distorts the system.

The way out

Design, or redesign, rules to release creativity not in the direction of beating the rules, but in the direction of achieving the purpose of the rules.

From “Thinking in Systems” by Donella H. Meadows

In this system, the rule is the number of tests that must be written weekly. The developer has a self-allotted time to be spent per week to write tests and there is an amount of time needed to write a good quality test. If the rule is changed to increase the number of tests mandated per week and the developer does not allocate more time to writing tests, then the programmer will meet the requirements of the rule by writing lower-quality tests.

Inspired by Rule Beating Trap by Luciano Gonzalez

Rule Beating Trap - Tests per week
Profile photo Alfredo Artiles