Edward Lorenz, matematico e meteorologo del MIT (Massachusets Institute of Technology), scopre accidentalmente le dinamiche caotiche nel 1961: http://matematica.unibocconi.it/interventi/Lorenz/lorenz.htm

Ma la celebre metafora del "battito d'ali di una farfalla" era già stata impiegata da Ray Bradbury nel breve racconto "A Sound of Thunder" (1952):
https://bibliotecapulp.altervista.org/Magazine/Pdf/Ray%20Bradbury%20-%201952%20-%20Rumore%20Di%20Tuono.pdf

#math #complexity #letteratura #sci_fi

There must be something in the water in Manitoba, they're all saying the same thing:

"Life is a Highway" - Tom Cochrane
"The Medium is the Message" - Marshal McLuhan
"The computation is on the tape" - Alan Turing (honorary Manitoban for the purpose of this bit)

Life began when someone's kid peed in the pool, unfortunately for all of us it evolved when someone else's kid drank it. Lots of other, lovely things have happened a long the way

https://bubbled.from.loss.dev/stories/nearly-nonsense/engineering-a-cascade

#biology #complexity #crafternoon

Why do systems fail before they collapse?

Not because they disappear —
but because inputs stop fitting their boundaries.

A boundary-first view of suppression and breakdown:

• Geometry remains
• Injection continues
• Boundary function degrades
• Persistence falls toward threshold

https://substack.com/@hybridmind42/note/p-192294105?r=75c2ac

#systems #complexity #physics #AI #resilience #boundaries

Why systems don’t fail suddenly — they quietly stop working first

https://open.substack.com/pub/hybridmind42/p/why-systems-dont-fail-suddenly-they?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac

A short piece on suppression as the hidden pre-collapse phase in complex systems.
#SystemsThinking #Complexity

"The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one."

#code #complexity #technicaldebt #classic

https://mikaelvesavuori.medium.com/from-technical-debt-to-technical-health-with-healthcheck-3e7fdc132f58

CU Boulder CS Theory Online Seminar this Fri 2026-03-27!

We're excited to have Eric Samperton (Purdue Uni.) presenting "Complexity of Algebraic Problems in Low-Dimensional Topology"

https://www.math.purdue.edu/~esampert/
https://www.colorado.edu/cs-theory/theory-seminar

#math #complexity #topology #algebra

🧬 A quiet pattern in biology…

An amoeba eats by wrapping food in a membrane — forming a temporary internal compartment.

Sometimes, what gets engulfed doesn’t get digested… it stays.

That’s how symbiosis begins — the boundary is retained, and both persist.

And now we’re seeing viruses that don’t just enter cells —
they build their own compartments inside them.

Three different processes.

One underlying pattern:
Create a boundary inside a system… and the system changes.

From digestion
→ to cooperation
→ to control

Biology keeps reusing the same trick at different scales.

Maybe complexity doesn’t just evolve by adding new parts…

👉 maybe it evolves by adding new boundaries

#biology #evolution #systems #science #complexity