Episode 11: The surprises of robust-yet-fragile systems
Summary:
We explore the design of highly hypothetical forests showing how Highly Optimized Tolerance (HOT) theory can explain the appearance of power-law size distributions of bad things happening to generally robust systems. We compare with Self-Organized Criticality.
Date:
2015/10/06
Duration:
1:12:09
2015/10/06
1:12:09
Lecture:
Tweet:
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— The Vox of PoCS (@pocsvox) October 13, 2015Extra:
We find ourselves considering avalanches of long-grained rice. Could someone please fetch the soy sauce?