Sublime

these patterns are the result not of accidental fluctuations but rather of decades of choice and adaptation by successive waves of different individuals sharing certain traits.

papers published in Science and Nature,

The ever-growing dispersion, which begged Galton for a counterforce, should never have been there in the first place.

practical objective of urban science,

mobile hunter-gatherer groups are often characterized by recurrent temporal patterns of social fusion and fission.

The environment typically exhibits a range of regularities or niches, that can be exploited by different action sequences or strategies.

Nature follows itself; science is our remarkable but imperfect attempt to explain it. Quantification is exact not unto reality, but unto itself.

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California Institute of Technology’s John Hopfield