Complexity

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• A Final Thought on November 9th

  
  Cafe Hayek — Authority: 679
  Here’s a letter that I sent this morning to the Gray Lady: Slavoj Zizek rightly complains – if with understatement bordering on the vulgar – of being “deceived” by communism (” 20 Years of Collapse ,” Nov. 9).  But like many other pundits who feign wisdom by steering clear of what they mistakenly ...
  9 hours ago

• Chaos, Complexity, and Public Policy: Excellent interview of Irene Sanders

  
  idealawg — Authority: 431
  This very informative and interesting interview was done by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars . Click to watch " Chaos, Complexity, and Public Policy ." (For those of you tuning in after November, the Sanders interview is Episode #2206.) Click to read my interview of Irene Sanders from 2006.
  13 hours ago

• It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

  
  Cafe Hayek — Authority: 679
  My colleague Pete Boettke reflects on that marvelous day, exactly 20 years ago .
  22 hours ago

• Scientists can now eavesdrop on bacteria

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Nov 9 (IANS) A new breakthrough will help scientists eavesdrop on bacteria and learn how they chat with one another. This finding is likely to lead to new therapeutic discoveries for diseases ranging from cancer to diabetes and allergies.Pieter C. Dorrestein, pharmacy professor at the University of ...
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• Why Do People Vote? I

  
  The Scientific Fundamentalist — Authority: 434
  Why millions of people turn out to vote in every national election in the United States and other large democracies is one of the persistent mysteries in the rational choice theory of politics.  Why do people vote? If you think about it, voting in a large national election – such as the US Presidential election ...
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• n=1 Self-Experimentation Positioning: How to Not be Fooled by Randomness

  
  healthcare epistemocrat — Authority: 118
  Living in a world that we dont understand is a humbling, human endeavor. The history of science and the history of medicine teach us that causation is murky, at best, and that things often work for reasons that we dont understand. People have been tackling this conundrum for many years, in various ways, and there ...
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• Next stop- Judaism

  
  Tena's Therapy — Authority: 119
  It’s Sunday morning. I’m watching CBS Sunday Morning- turned up full blast so I can hear it over the kids’  fighting and screaming while I sip on my coffee and pretend they aren’t here. This is my Sunday morning ritual. A Sunday morning ritual that probably has my dad’s mom rolling in her grave. My ...
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• IT Complexity Exploration

  
  Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education — Authority: 103
  I had a great phone call with Roger Sessions (@RSessions), CTO ObjectWatch a month ago about IT Complexity.  Over the past few weeks, I got a chance to read about Roger’s approach Simple Iterative Partitions (SIP) in a series of white papers:Controlling Complexity in Enterprise Architectures – Executive ...
  3 days ago

• Why violence?

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  We bloggers for Psychology Today were asked to write a something in the wake of the Ft. Hood shootings, perhaps in hopes our individual offerings might add a small piece to the puzzle of understanding the profound complexity of social violence. Here is what came to my mind. I believe that most human violence is ...
  3 days ago

• Approximating a Boolean Function via Small Circuits

  
  in theory — Authority: 112
  Suppose that is an arbitrary boolean function, and that we want to construct (or rather, show the existence of) a circuit of size that approximates as well as possible. How well can we hope to do? Certainly, we can get a -size circuit that computes on of the inputs, by either choosing the circuit that ...
  3 days ago

• Commercial Vs. Residential Plumbing

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 158
  When someone says that they had to call the plumber, what’s the first problem that you assume they are having? In almost all cases, people assume that a toilet broke in someone’s home and a plumber was called to come out and fix it. However, residential plumbing isn’t the only kind of plumbing there is. [...]
  3 days ago

• Need Adobe Illustrator Artist to outline cartoon series by redzonedesign

  
  Pro Freelance Projects — Authority: 177
  I have a series of pen drawn cartoon that I need converted into Illustrator. I will pay per character drawn or by the hour. The attached drawings are a before and after so you can see the complexity of the drawings… (Budget: $30-250, Jobs: Illustrator)Go to SourcePost similar project
  3 days ago

• Take It One Step At A Time To Succeed With A Internet Home Business

  
  Free Internet Marketing Information — Authority: 157
  Very often a Internet home business will fail shortly after it is launched. With a little research you will find that around 95% home business owners will loose money and give up within their first year. So why do so many Internet home businesses fail? One reason is that a many people who start a Internet home ...
  3 days ago

• 18 Truths & How Complex Systems Fail!! (Must Read!)

  
  Simoleon Sense — Authority: 586
  Paul Kedrosky links to this article about complex systems & failure. The article outlines 18 reasons why complex systems fail.  Furthermore, this article is based on a famous paper ” How Complex Systems Fail “. I highly recommend reading both the article & paper.  Enjoy! Click Here To Read: 18 Truths ...
  3 days ago

• Brain mapping and the connectome

  
  the Foresight Institute — Authority: 528
  I’m at the AAAI Fall Symposium session on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, and there was a really interesting talk by  Walter Schneider of Pitt about progress in mapping the nerve bundles that are the “information superhighways” between the various parts of the brain.  You’ll find his slides ...
  3 days ago

• Portable Puzzles - Raining Cats & Dogs

  
  Most-Gifted-Toys.com — Authority: 156
  Portable Puzzles - Raining Cats & Dogs Brand new in factory sealed box Customer Review: LOTS of fun and challenging too! WOW…its been awhile since I worked a jigsaw puzzle and I sure am glad this was the one that I chose to solve! Keep in mind that not all the pieces are what [...]
  4 days ago

• Senior Research Fellows in Complex Networks

  
  beamtenherrschaft — Authority: 133
  This is from the website of the CABDyN Complexity Centre in Oxford. Senior Research Fellow in Complex Networks CABDyN Complexity Centre, Grade 8 (£36,532 - £43,622 with discretionary range to £47,666) Fixed term post for two years We are seeking to recruit a Senior Research Fellow in Complex ...
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• Enjoy Beaded Gemstone Jewelry Every Day

  
  Handcrafted Fine Jewelry Blog by John S. Brana — Authority: 112
  Amethyst Vermiel Neckalce Few things are more alluring than a lack of complexity. A simple strand with a small jewel speaks volumes. When it comes to jewelry, a strand of silver or gold adorned with a diminutive gem is enough for most events. But, there are times when you don’t feel the need to be elegant, or ...
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• Erdogans Calculus: An Analytical Approach

  
  Shadowed Forest of World Politics — Authority: 122
  Erdogans diplomatic initiative to break the Mideast logjam with fresh thinking has provoked lots of smoke but much less analytical fire. How might we think through the options facing the region?Turkey appears to be challenging the world to think more deeply about the state of affairs in the Mideast and to move toward ...
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• Statistical Learning as the Ultimate Agile Development Tool by Peter Norvig

  
  Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog — Authority: 414
  Interesting lecture on Statistical Learning as the Ultimate Agile Development Tool by Peter Norvig. The webcast is likely to be of interest to a fairly small segment of readers of this blog. But for geeks it may be interesting. He looks at the advantages of machine learning versus hand programming every case (for ...
  4 days ago

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