One more from the heap of raw ideas and unfinished projects: This one from almost precisely 2 years ago, going under the working title "Computational Lace", but really a kind of fractal process based on an initial 2D SDF, creating a surprising amount of complexity from even the simplest seed shapes...
This is again one of these projects requiring a full size view to appreciate the fine structures emerging...
Complexity Theory’s 50-Year Journey to the Limits of Knowledge
"How hard is it to prove that problems are hard to solve? Meta-complexity theorists have been asking questions like this for decades. A string of recent results has started to deliver answers.
If I ever need to feel better and have a chuckle about the current solution complexity absurdity facing modern developers I always go and read https://grugbrain.dev/
"and, what is worse, front end complexity demon spirit even more powerful and have deep spiritual hold on entire front end industry as far as grug can tell”
#FaZeClan z 18. wygrana z rzedu i juz tylko o jeden mecz od kolejnego trofeum #Complexity walczylo dzielnie, nadal imponuja, ale FaZe jest w tym momencie po prostu zbyt mocarne
Stigmergy is a form of self-organization. It produces complex, seemingly intelligent structures, without need for any planning, control, or even direct communication between the agents. As such it supports efficient collaboration between extremely simple agents, who may lack memory or individual awareness of each other.
Describes how the characteristic shapes of the mounds of different species emerge. "During mound construction, environmental factors such as heat flow and gas exchange affect the building behavior of termites, and the resulting change in mound geometry in turn modifies the response of the internal mound environment to external thermal oscillations."
#BarackObama offered a complex analysis of the conflict between #Israel & #Hamas, telling thousands of former aides that they were all “complicit to some degree” in the current bloodshed.
He continued: “& what is also true is that there is a history of the #Jewish people that may be dismissed unless your grandparents or your great-grandparents, or your uncle or your aunt tell you stories about the madness of #antisemitism. & what is true is that there are people right now who are dying, who have nothing to do w/what #Hamas did.”
Still, #Obama appeared to acknowledge the limits of his musings about bridging #divides & embracing #complexity.
The gist here is to model a genetic network as a dynamical system with two attractor states (in this case, it's leukemia and the states are apoptosis on-versus-off).
I'm looking for leads to papers that apply this type of approach to model genetic networks (not neural circuits) that have something a bit more to do with the brain; ideally not cancer.
(This is not my field). Huntington's? Fragile X? Anything neuron related?
Looking for: complex systems that defy model reduction.
The behavior of a complex system is hard to predict from its parts alone because it follows from how the parts interact.
Model reduction is a way to capture the behavior of a complex system more simply (eg to capture the magnetism of 1g of Fe2O3, you don't have to model all 1022 molecules and their interactions). My sense is that model reduction works best when you have many repeated copies.
I'm looking for some good (ideally concrete) examples of complex systems that defy model reduction. I anticipate that they will be made of heterogeneous parts.
What pisses you off the most about this world that we all currently share & why?
What makes you retain rays of hope, in a pretty surreal world, where most of our worst fears are happening in real time - when the world is being controlled by a very tiny few madmen, who are hellbent on retaining power & money - at any & all costs?
It's difficult to understand that societies aren't static. Times change. People change. Countries change. Their attitudes & policies change. Holding a grudge against perceived wrong done to one decades ago will not get one anywhere, especially if the world has changed so much as to be unrecognizable.
Even more difficult to fathom is that societies aren't homogenous. Not all of #USA thinks the same way. Not all of #Israel either. And not all of #Gaza same way.
That phrase is just so great. It's easy to see how it's counterpart slipped through the cracks. "Judicious model robustification" - who can claim not to aspire to that as well?
To all modelers out there, may your model be judiciously robustified!
Kiedys wznosil trofea najwiekszych turniejow na swiecie jako zawodnik #VirtusPro, dzisiaj wznosi pierwsze w historii trofeum turnieju #CS2 jako trener #FaZeClan - Filip #NEO Kubski 🇵🇱
Polska ma sie z czego cieszyc - mamy zawodnikow grajacych w topowych zespolach, mamy trenera jednej z najlepszych organizacji. Oby ta forma utrzymala sie do #IEMKatowice - to bedzie wyjatkowy turniej 🤩
Piekny turniej, piekny final, dokladnie taki na jaki kibice w Sydney i na calym swiecie zaslugiwali, a dla #Complexity uklony za walke do samego konca
"Freakin' Counter-Strike!"
Za to kocham profesjonalnego CS-a - nie tylko dlatego, ze FaZe znowu jest na szczycie, po dlugim okresie, kiedy wielu juz ich zaczynalo skreslac, ale tez dlatego, ze Complexity pokazalo niespodziewanie taka forme po tym jak byli wysmiewani jako typowe #NACS
LIVING IN THE #METACRISIS with Jonathan Rowson
"Jonathan Rowson is co-founder and Director of Perspectiva and author of the Joyous Struggle on Substack. He was previously Director of the Social Brain Centre at the RSA where he authored a range of influential research reports on behaviour change, climate change and spirituality. Jonathan is an applied philosopher with degrees from Oxford, Harvard and Bristol Universities. In a former life he was a #chess Grandmaster and British Champion and views the game as a continuing source of insight and inspiration. His book, "The Moves that Matter – A Grandmaster on the Game of Life" was published in 2019. #overshoot#ClimateChange#permaculture#infopollution Bioregion #GreatTransition#collapse#cosmolocalism#complexity#potential#consciousness https://youtu.be/IjOQB608ylQ
A new #ComplexityThougths short essay is out: this time I write about the ongoing debate around the Nature paper on assembly theory. The essay features comments by Sara Imari Walker, Ricard Solè and Hector Zenil, and it's an attempt to provide a balanced overview of what's going on.
@christina Thank you for sharing this flowchart! Not only did it help me #think about my current thinking re the #climatepredicament but it helped me confront my sense of denial and showed the #complexity of different paths and clarified possible empowering choices I have not thought about moving forward. https://flowchart.bettercatastrophe.com/