"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

#Design #Challenges
Designing for emergence · When your product starts designing its own future https://ilo.im/16b4yg

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#Features #Complexity #Collisions #Systems #Users #AI #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

Impagliazzo's Five Worlds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rs9_cIEbWY

"A Personal View of Average-Case Complexity" by R. Impagliazzo (1995)

Algorithmica: P = NP, Hard problems are easy to solve. Optimization is effortless.

Heuristica: NP is hard in the worst case, but easy on average.We can't prove problems are easy, but they usually are in practice.

Pessiland: Hard-on-average problems exist, but one-way functions do not.We can't solve problems, but we also can't do cryptography. The worst case.

Minicrypt: One-way functions exist. Private-key cryptography (AES, SHA) is possible, but public-key is not.

Cryptomania: Public-key cryptography is possible. Oblivious transfer and secure multi-party computation exist.

#cryptography #compsci #complexity #algorithms

Architecture is part of the algorithm.
Structure shapes adjacent possibility.

https://realityfragments.com/2026/03/17/architecture-is-part-of-the-algorithm/

#SystemsThinking #AdjacentPossible #Complexity #Writing #Philosophy