All of the in-person lectures for 2022–2023.

A major change: All recorded content will be housed within Teams going forward.

Notes here will be haphazard. Possibly scrapped.

Primary intent is for online students, as well as any student reviewing material from lectures they have attended.

Traditional fair warning for everyone else:

In short: What follows is video documentation of what happened, rendered as poorly made, slow TV.

This is what happens when we have maniacal recording of everything.

Please see slides and associated clips for a more organised entry into the PoCSverse.

Week 3, 2022/09/12 to 2022/09/16:

Slides covered:
Power-law size distributions
Measurements from Zipf's 1949 book.

Lecture #5 and #6:

The statistics of surprise.

We made our way through power law size distributions basics. Moments, largest sample size, mild versus wild, Zipf's law and size-rank distributions, how it all connects.

Plus platypus patting.

Lectures recorded and stored within Teams.

Assignment for this week:
03: Kingons, or possibly Queons

Week 2, 2022/09/05 to 2022/09/09:

Slides covered:
Allometric scaling
Power-law size distributions

Lecture #3 and #4:

PoCS has moved to streaming and recording within Teams. All videos will be organised within the course's (private) Teams space.

We worked through the end of scaling and started on power-law size distributions.

Assignment for this week:
02: Curry with named meat 15 p

Week 1, 2021/08/29 to 2021/09/01:

Slides covered:
Allometric scaling

Lecture #2:
After seemingly recording the lecture through ScreenFlow, a brief interaction with Microsoft Teams imploded the laptop, and upon rebooting, a glorious 75 minutes seems to have been lost.

Please watch Clips 4 through 17 listed under the Allometric scaling slides:

Clip 4: The good, the bad, and the ugly scaling (2:49)
Clip 5: Scale invariance, allometry (6:17)
Clip 6: Biology's massive range of sizes (3:47)
Clip 7: Babies are weird (2:32)
Clip 8: Scaling in lifting, running, swimming, good and bad (5:17)
Clip 9: Scaling in biology recap (1:53)
Clip 10: Quarterology and heartbeats (10:12)
Clip 11: Insular species numbers (1:20)Clip 12: Cancer rates (3:31)
Clip 13: Maximal animal speed (7:44)
Clip 14: Engines: Horsepower and rpms (0:37)
Clip 15: Nails (5:12)
Clip 16: Rowing (0:33)
Clip 17: Gravity laws (2:35)

Some notes:

Things talked about, and more of where we'll go:

The statistics of surprise.

The everywhereness of the rich-getting-richer mechanism.

How systems expectedly unexpectedly fall apart.

Non-universal universality.

How things spread.

Why COVID-19 was predictably unpredictable.

Why COVID-19 really was a conspiracy.

Maybe 16 to 26 million people died in excess through the COVID-19 pandemic. Around 1 in 100 in Bulgaria.

Fate does not exist, only the story of fate.

How to become famous.

How to measure happiness with lexical calculus.

How it's all about stories: Characters and plots. And pyramids.

The true compass of essential meaning.


Assignment for this week:
01: I Aten't Dead

Week 1, 2021/08/29 to 2021/09/01:

Slides covered:
Overview
Allometric scaling

Lectures:
#1
2021-08-31: Welcome to the PoCSverse



Overview, Ephemera, Scaling.

Where we're going.

Assignments for this week:
01: I Aten't Dead