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describe an approach that focuses on building an “atomic network”—that is, the smallest possible network that is stable and can grow on its own.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
But the way in which complex phenomena are hidden, beyond masking by space and time, is through nonlinearity, randomness, collective dynamics, hierarchy, and emergence—a deck of attributes that have proved ill suited to our intuitive and augmented abilities to grasp and to comprehend.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
From these case studies, I describe an approach that focuses on building an “atomic network”—that is, the smallest possible network that is stable and can grow on its own.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
Complex Systems
Matt Mower • 2 cards
In this context, just knowing Kleiber’s law for how metabolic rates scale, or even knowing all of the other allometric scaling laws obeyed by organisms, does not constitute a theory. Rather, these phenomenological laws are a sophisticated summary of enormous amounts of data that reveal and encapsulate the systematic, generic features of life. Being
... See moreGeoffrey West • Scale
Most economists now accept the need for more realistic assumptions in economic theory; and methodologies such as network analysis, heterogeneous agent models, evolutionary game theory, and economic lab experiments are becoming standard.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
The science of complex systems is the study of how local interactions can lead to global consequences.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Nevertheless, deeper reflection on the role of human imagination reveals its fundamental role. Put simply, the earth could not support as many people as it does today if humans had not invented the concept of government from our basic experiences of family life, or the concept of money from our experiences trading small and precious objects. All go
... See moreJessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
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