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1) watched a really excellent video recording of a Clarendon lecture by Tima Bansal .. can’t wait to see the second! https://www.youtube.com/live/Tqs6oI9GEZ4?si=H0JVmsNIcKJLzU5F
#systemsthinking #complexity
2) had a nice teams chat with another friend-colleague with whom I had not spoken in several months
3) my family and friends, and my 
The code you write makes you a programmer. The code you delete makes you a good one. The code you don't have to write makes you a great one.
— Mario Fusco
Another excellent episode of the @simplifyingcomplexity #podcast, this time featuring Ricardo Hausmann of #Harvard Growth Lab, discussing economic #complexity in different countries.
open.spotify.com/episode/7cTH...
Atlas: atlas.hks.harvard.edu
Hacker News What Makes Code Hard to Read: Visual Patterns of Complexity (2023)
https://seeinglogic.com/posts/visual-readability-patterns/
#ycombinator #programming #complexity #patterns #JavaScript
seeinglogic blog · What Makes Code Hard To Read: Visual Patterns of ComplexityNot long ago, I was auditing a codebase for work (looking for bugs) when I realized that despite the quality of the code, I was becoming mentally fatigued extremely quickly and had a hard time working on it for long stretches of time…
This is one reason why I ignore mission statements when I make decisions.
Lynn Margulis was born OTD in 1938. At 29, she published her theory that eukaryotes had evolved via endosymbiosis, after having it rejected by at least 15 other journals.
#HPBio #Complexity #HistSTM 
#EvoBio #WomeninSTEM
On the origin of mitosing cell...
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"The hypermarketization of everything", Quinn Slobodian, 2025
Bean counters are attempting to put a monetary value on the complexity of nature
Think of a logged forest.
"The value of the timber produced counts towards Australia’s gross domestic product. But cutting trees down also produces a loss. For example, the forest is no longer there for the community to enjoy. And it no longer provides “services” such as filtering water and preventing soil erosion."
"There are many reasons to measure the value of those services. For example, governments might then be able to charge a logging company a licence fee which reflects the community value of the forest. A government may decide the forest is too valuable to allow logging at all, or the fee may just be set too high for any company to find it profitable to log it."
"To date, the value lost when trees are cut down, or other ecosystems are damaged, has not been included in the national accounts. The new environmental accounts seek to change this."
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https://theconversation.com/new-report-slaps-an-official-price-tag-on-australias-precious-natural-assets-250623
Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
How neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War,
Quinn Slobodian, 2025 >>
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9781890951917/hayeks-bastards
#nature #Biodiversity #EPBCAct #NatureNegative #Naturepositive #complexity #ecosystems #degradation #value #loss #NativeForests #extractivism #hypermarketization
The ConversationNew report slaps an official price tag on Australia’s precious natural assets
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"If you want to be a convincing advisor, psychological research tells us that your observations/facts and rational arguments may have relatively little effect. You need to make sure your relation with the person you need to convince is as good as possible and the message is heard as often as possible."
—Gerben Wierda @gctwnl: https://ea.rna.nl/2022/10/24/on-the-psychology-of-architecture-and-the-architecture-of-psychology/ 
R&A IT Strategy & Architecture · On the Psychology of Architecture and the Architecture of Psychology[Sticky] About the role ‘convictions’ play in human intelligence, starting from the practical situations ‘advisors’ — such as IT advisors — find themselves in. Advisors need…
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
— E. W. Dijkstra
We all know #complex #systems are most often structured as #networks. But the #complexity of the real world often goes beyond pairwise interactions. So, how does one model these? Why, with #hypergraphs, of course! And how does one learn about them? By attending our School and Conference on Higher-Order Networks! An international line-up of lecturers and speakers will discuss the #mathematics of hypergraphs, the #physics of the processes they support and discuss #algorithms that can be used to study their #structure and #dynamics.
So, are you curious to learn about the mechanisms that a certain #fascist owner of a social network uses to push people to vote for far-right candidates? And do you want to know the most efficient way #democratic governments have to bring down his evil network of satellites if he keeps breaking the law? Join us!
The event will take place from 25 June to 2 July at the International Institute of Physics of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, in Natal, #Brazil
Please boost widely and send to anyone who you think may be interested, especially students and postdocs!
www.iip.ufrn.brInternational Institute of PhysicsInternational Institute of Physics
A journal like #Constructions has the big advantage that we can easily publish epic papers like this 70-page article by Karin Madlener-Charpentier on "Information packaging and constructional #complexity: Challenges in motion event encoding in #L2 #German and L2 #French" https://doi.org/10.24338/cons-706
doi.orgInformation packaging and constructional complexity: Challenges in motion event encoding in L2 German and L2 French
| Constructions
Interesting prelude on Gaza and trump behavior ..
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Putin fears assassination as Ukraine takes out key Kremlin figures
Psychological tactics are being deployed by Ukraine as they wipe out Russians in Moscow, says journalist Robert Fox.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBHbbIaMDts
#trump #gaza #complexity #water #demography #hamas #RobertFox
#Ukraine #UkraineWar #StandWithUkraine
In ihrem neu veröffentlichten Artikel "Human #languages trade off #complexity against #efficiency" (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcsy.0000032) zeigen unsere Mitarbeiter A. Koplenig, @sascha_wolfer, @notesjor & P. Meyer, dass größere Sprachen tendenziell komplexer, dafür aber effizienter sind. 
Ausführliche Pressemitteilungen unter: https://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/presse/pressemitteilungen/pm-04022025/
doi.orgHuman languages trade off complexity against efficiencyAuthor summary To better understand human language as a complex system, our study leverages the power of computational language models and quantitative statistical analysis. We custom-trained seven different language models–from simple statistical models to state-of-the-art deep neural networks–on a database of 41 multilingual text collections, covering over 2,000 languages, more than 6,500 documents, and almost 3 billion words. We develop a novel statistical framework that makes it possible to account for language- and document-specific features, as well as phylogenetic and geographic relationships among languages. Our results show that, despite their architectural differences, these models produced remarkably consistent rankings of language complexity, challenging the long-held notion that all languages are equally complex. Moreover, we discovered a trade-off between complexity and efficiency: languages with higher complexity tend to use fewer symbols. We show that this trade-off is influenced by the social environments in which languages are used, with larger communities tending to use more complex but more efficient languages. These findings suggest that language complexity is not uniform but rather an adaptive response to the demands of communication within varying social contexts.
Just published: "Human #languages trade off #complexity against #efficiency" in PLOS Complex Systems
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcsy.0000032
Main findings:
- Languages that are (information-theoretically) more complex are more efficient.
- Larger speaker communities tend to use more efficient languages. 1/
Sound installation by #Zimoun
«Using simple and functional components, Zimoun builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects. In an obsessive display of simple and functional materials, these works articulate a tension between the orderly patterns of Modernism and the chaotic forces of life. Carrying an emotional depth, the acoustic hum of natural phenomena in Zimoun’s minimalist constructions effortlessly reverberates.» Laura Blereau
Newsletter next Shows (Website Zimoun)
Video Archive (Website Zimoun)
Music: Zimoun.Bandcamp
Longer Videos: Youtube & Vimeo
Instagram: StudioZimoun
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#soundart #contemporaryart #minimalism #postminimalism #sound #sculpture #soundobject #generative #simplicity #complexity #flow #rhythms #art #artist #immersiveart #studiozimoun #museum #soundinstallation #museumofcontemporaryart #contemporaryartmuseum #space
«Using simple and functional components, Zimoun builds architecturally-minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects. In an obsessive display of simple and functional materials, these works articulate a tension between the orderly patterns of Modernism and the chaotic forces of life. Carrying an emotional depth, the acoustic hum of natural phenomena in Zimoun’s minimalist constructions effortlessly reverberates.» Laura Blereau
Newsletter next Shows (Website Zimoun) Video Archive (Website Zimoun) Music: Zimoun.Bandcamp Longer Videos: Youtube & Vimeo Instagram: StudioZimoun_
#soundart #contemporaryart #minimalism #postminimalism #sound #sculpture #soundobject #generative #simplicity #complexity #flow #rhythms #art #artist #immersiveart #studiozimoun #museum #soundinstallation #museumofcontemporaryart #contemporaryartmuseum #space
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work.
— John Gall
#complexity #podcast by the santa fe institute
https://www.santafe.edu/culture/podcasts
Dismissal Responses to New Ideas in #Physics
4. Argument from Complexity/Simplicity
"If it were that simple, someone else would have figured it out by now."
"You're overcomplicating things; real science is elegant."
"You're oversimplifying things; real science is complex."
"Physics is too complex for anyone outside academia to contribute meaningfully."
"Why reinvent the wheel when the current theories work just fine?"