• PoCS, Vols. 1, 2, and 3D: Peter Sheridan Dodds's Principles of Complex Systems

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Slide Set 013: Robustness, Fragility, and Scaling

Slide Set 012: A few fundamentals of complex systems
 
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Slide Set 015: Lognormals and other Bitter Disappoint­ments

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 episode(s) and clip(s):


Episode 1: The robust-yet-fragileness of real complex systems (1:31:21)

Clip 1: Introduction to the introduction to the preamble to Robustness (7:29)

Clip 2: Overview of Robustness (4:23)

Clip 3: HOT model: Introduction (5:17)

Clip 4: HOT model: Features (3:26)

Clip 5: Forest fire toy model outline (12:26)

Clip 6: Forest fire toy model example: Detailed consideration (24:26)

Clip 7: Narrative causality (2:39)

Clip 8: No design versus strong design (2:42)

Clip 9: Fires: Saving a bunny (1:08)

Clip 10: HOT model: Theoretical analysis (7:43)

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

Clip 12: Long-grained rice and Not How Nature Really Works (3:35)

Clip 13: HOT vs SOC (2:45)

Clip 14: COLD theory and summing up (4:51)



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