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The Evolution of Biological Information: How Evolution Creates Complexity, From Viruses to Brains by Christoph Adams, 2024
Why information is the unifying principle that allows us to understand the evolution of complexity in natureMore than 150 years after Darwin’s revolutionary On the Origin of Species, we are still attempting to understand and explain the amazing complexity of life.
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The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.
— Grady Booch
Ferdinand Piëch: Fritz Indra erzählt über den ehemaligen VW-Chef - SPIEGEL ONLINE
https://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/ferdinand-piech-fritz-indra-a-1284268.html#:~:text=Pi%C3%ABch%20war%20kompliziert%20und%20hat%20auch%20alles%20kompliziert%20erkl%C3%A4rt
"… Piëch war kompliziert und hat auch alles kompliziert erklärt. Die Kunst des Ingenieurs ist, die Dinge möglichst einfach zu machen. Aber wenn man einem Menschen etwas einfach erklärt und er es sofort versteht, ist man halt ein normaler Ingenieur. Einer, der diese Aura der Ideen, die man nicht versteht, ausstrahlt, muss dagegen etwas Besonderes sein. …" #Complexity #Simplicity
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DER SPIEGEL · Motorenexperte über verstorbenen Automanager: "Piëch war kein genialer Ingenieur"
Guest article by Dr. #Bernhard #Weßling: “#Origin of #coincidence, #complexity, #crises and #time”
The following guest article by Dr. Bernhard Weßling is not a “product of chance” this time, like his first guest article “What a coincidence!” published by me. This time it is about the consistent continuation and expansion of the 1st edition of his book of the same name, which has now been published as the 2nd edition with the subtitle “On the origin of unpredictability, complexity, crises and time”.
In it, Mr. Weßling expands on his previously explained, novel #concept of chance and complexity and examines the fundamental #cause of crises. To this end, he again uses the concept of #entropy to put it up for discussion as a criterion for #sustainability.
I would also like to put the #theses contained in his new book up for #discussion here on my #science blog. I am therefore looking forward to possible, even coincidental #resonances and - just like Dr. Weßling - look forward to numerous #comments. But first of all, here are the headlines to his thesis paper, which of course only represents an excerpt and cannot reflect the informative and argumentative depth of his book:
1. crisis as a #constant: Why #polycrises are not a novelty
2. chance, complexity and crises: The inseparable #connection
3. #Crisis management with #responsibility: sustainability as the key
4. entropy as a measure of sustainability: a new #perspective on #environmental protection
5. the #shadow sides of #CO2 technologies: Why #DAC and #CCS are not sustainable
6. #Natural #CO2 storage: #ecosystems as a solution for #climate and biodiversity
7. the #interplay of chance, complexity and entropy: a new look at the #worldorder
8. the #limits of #reductionism: why a #world formula does not exist
9. #Emergence and time: How #complex #systems and time itself emerge
10. the #human #perception of time and its separation from the essence of time
More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2025/03/16/zufall-krisen-zeit/
Guest article by Dr. #Bernhard #Weßling: “#Origin of #randomness, #complexity, #crises and #time”
I like to put the #theses contained in his new book up for #discussion on my #science blog. That's why I'm now looking forward to possible, even “coincidental” #resonances and look forward to numerous #comments on the topic.
More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2025/03/16/zufall-krisen-zeit/
Guest article by Dr. #Bernhard #Weßling: “#Origin of #randomness, #complexity, #crises and #time”
I like to put the #theses contained in his new book up for #discussion on my #science blog. That's why I'm now looking forward to possible, even “coincidental” #resonances and look forward to numerous #comments on the topic.
More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2025/03/16/zufall-krisen-zeit/
Why the Physics Underlying Life is Fundamental and Computation is Not
https://longnow.org/ideas/physics-life-complexity-assembly-theory/
"Our ability to explain gravity fundamentally changed how we interact with our world. So too might an explanatory framework for life transform our future."
Long Now · Why the Physics Underlying Life is Fundamental and Computation is NotOur ability to explain gravity fundamentally changed how we interact with our world. So too might an explanatory framework for life transform our future.
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Could have been Emergent, #complexity arising from simplicity. Designed, but not by discrete authorial process or gesture.
From the Leanpub Podcast archive: Watch author Luca Minudel talk about complexity science and about his experience with Extreme Programming on the Ferrari F1 team: https://youtu.be/Mb9wrBtu7XI?utm_content=bufferd9c3e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer #books #ebooks #extremeprogramming #complexity
“A petition over DWP PIP has highlighted a fact all disabled people should know”
by The Canary @thecanaryuk @UKLabour
“A new petition is making waves as it calls on [..] DWP to update the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) application form to include important information about the high success rate of appeals”
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/04/08/dwp-pip-appeals/?__s=1toyfummtp6bhspv4akg
Canary · A petition over DWP PIP has highlighted a fact all disabled people should knowAt a time when many disabled people are grappling with an intricately complex DWP PIP application process, this petition is on the money
Making big beat takes no less than six drum loop layers.
Also true about big beat: if it's worth doing it's worth overdoing.
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> The purpose is to warn bystanders to invest in technological #complexity
I think your point is well taken. My introduction to ZFS was gradual, deploying it first on spare H/W to see what it was all about and about half a year later, migrating my home lab file server to ZFS. Years later I'm installing desktop, laptop and servers with ZFS on root. I admit to being a ZFS fanboy, but that took time and practice.
And as always backups are king!
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@janl The purpose is to warn bystanders to invest in technological #complexity that seems to be very attractive for its advanced features without acknowledging the risks or efforts associated.
Its learning curve doesn't even allow for an easy start.
As with so many awesome tools, this is something for specific experts and not for new/occasional/advanced users.
BTDT and I've had my fair share of bad experiences.
Current pain in my setup: #NixOS. Instead of providing an abstraction layer to keep away certain OS setup & maintenance problems for good, I got into so many little & bigger troubles that I try to tell people only to use it when they are ready to invest its required learning effort all the way.
From my point of view, this also holds true for "advanced" file systems like #ZFS, #XFS, ... YMMV.
UNIX is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.
— Dennis M. Ritchie
Succeed over difficult problems by embracing Complexity-Thinking by Luca Minudel https://leanpub.com/solvedifficultproblemsbyembracingcomplexity-thinking #books #ebooks #complexity
A micro-guide to Complexity-thinking for anyone faced with complex problems and struggling to find the crux of the matter. It also contains a call to action.
For newcomers to Complexity-thinking and those who are already familiar with the topic. This is the kind of book you'll want to share with your colleagues, manager, and CEO.
Find it on Leanpub!
Living Complexity by Luca Minudel https://leanpub.com/livingcomplexity #books #ebooks #complexity
This book describes 15 practical applications of Human Complexity in the context of software and digital products development. And suggests a new strategy for introducing Complexity thinking to your team and your organisation. The book is for leaders, managers, facilitators, change agents (Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches), and team members.
Find it on Leanpub!
An interdisciplinary team of researchers has proposed nothing less than a new law of #nature, according to which the #complexity of entities in the #universe increases over time with an inexorability comparable to the second law of #thermodynamics — the law that dictates an inevitable rise in entropy, a measure of disorder.
If they’re right, complex and intelligent #life should be widespread.
#astrobiology #physics
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-everything-in-the-universe-turns-more-complex-20250402/
Quanta Magazine · Why Everything in the Universe Turns More Complex | Quanta MagazineA new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.
Here it is, finally, the non-nerdy, updated and refined version of the theory of Requisite Inefficiency, which some of you may remember from over a decade ago.
Some of what is not needed for what is known is an indispensable resource to deal with what is unknown.
https://www.linkandth.ink/p/requisite-inefficiency
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Hans Busstra interviews theoretical physicist and #complexity scientist #JamesGlattfelder on his new book: “The #SapientCosmos: What a modern-day synthesis of science and philosophy teaches us about the emergence of information, consciousness, and meaning”, published by #EssentiaFoundation.
Can a #newscience bridge the gap between the noumena and the phenomena, the 1st person and the 3rd person perspective? A bit more provocatively: what is the relationship between #physics, #psychedelic experiences and #shamanism? #Glattfelder makes a plea for syncretic idealism: a worldview that synthesises ancient idealist texts and mystical experiences with physics, complexity science and analytic idealism.
#SyncreticIdealism could lead to a #ScientificSpirituality, a form of #empiricalmysticism that acknowledges a purposeful universe, wanting to know itself through ever increasing complexity."
