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Slide Set 10: A few fundamentals of complex systems

Slide Set 09: Benford's Law
 
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Slide Set 11: Robustness, Fragility, and Scaling

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Simple, flat slides:
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Printable handout:
18M ; Last updated: 2019/01/14, 22:35:59
Slides with all reveals for lectures:
60M ; Last updated: 2019/01/14, 22:05:58

Covered in these episodes:


10f: Fundamentals: Data (11:46)

10g: Fundamentals: Measurement, Instruments (8:17)

10h: Data Angry. Data Smash (0:49)

10i: Science fails to record how it fails (1:38)

10j: The end limits of measurement (1:45)

10k: Being a scientist, word-wise (0:45)

10l: Mismeasurement of complexity (pt 1) (7:22)

11f: Mismeasurement of complexity (pt 2) (11:55)

11g: The Office and The Good Place and measuring personality (1:03)

11h: Emergence (9:31)

11i: Schelling's model, Nicky Case's viz (8:19)

11j: Emergence of taste (4:19)

11k: Hotdogs and financial disasters (0:41)

11l: Words and stories (1:32)

12e: Emergence, weak and strong (3:03)

12f: Limits of Science (pt 1) (2:43)

12g: Self-organization (1:30)

12h: Tools and techniques (1:45)

12i: The gold standard science of cat-lapping (2:20)

12j: Intro to statistical mechanics with examples of percolation and magnets (16:22)

12k: Phase diagrams, 3d is hard, nutshell (8:05)

12l: Limits of science (pt 2), slow TV (11:52)



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