Slide Set 05: Optimal Supply Networks II: Blood, Water, and the Church of Quarterology
A Truthicide investigation.
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Covered in these episodes:
05f: Welcome to the Church of Quarterology (16:36)
06d: Quarterology's origins (17:23)
06e: Voting for scientific laws (5:06)
06f: We look at actual data (9:17)
06g: Different and better kinds of linear regression (6:47)
06h: Let's measure some power-law exponents ... What could go wrong? (13:19)
07e: More on regression: linear and RMA (7:28)
07f: It's a disaster (4:03)
07g: Rivers and Hack's law (3:17)
07h: Early (crazy) theories (14:21)
07i: Supply network theory of West et al. (it's wrong) (36:35)
08b: Believe people when they tell you who they are (2:57)
08c: Supply networks recap (3:20)
08d: Real blood networks (2:55)
08e: Four dimensions (lol) (4:43)
08f: Ensuing papers and a book of great confusion (12:36)
08g: Banavar et al.'s theory of impossible elephants (5:20)
08h: Simple geometric story and the specialness of isometric organisms (32:14)
09b: Geometric argument recap (4:12)
09c: River network data (8:04)
09d: The Cabal responds, buzzkilling, more confusion (1:47)
09e: Opinion figure! (4:04)