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Slide Set 11: Robustness, Fragility, and Scaling

Slide Set 10: A few fundamentals of complex systems
 
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Slide Set 12: Optimal Supply Networks III: Networks connecting many sources to many sinks

The trouble with Death Stars: The real science behind narrative causality and why one in a million chances always succeed.

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Covered in these episodes:


01a: Vermont Complex Systems Center overview (17:06)

13e: Robustness: Overview (4:23)

13f: HOT model: Intro (5:17)

13g: HOT model: Features (3:26)

13h: Forest fire toy model outline (12:26)

13i: Forest fire toy model example: Detailed consideration (24:26)

13j: Narrative causality (2:39)

13k: No design versus strong design (2:42)

13l: Fires: Saving a bunny (1:08)

14d: HOT model: Theoretical analysis (7:43)

14e: Self-organized criticality (SOC) (sounds great but doesn't hold up) (8:11)

14f: Long-grained rice and Not How Nature Really Works (3:35)

14g: HOT vs SOC (2:45)

14h: COLD theory + summing up (4:51)



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