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“A system must consist of three kinds of things: elements, interconnections, and a
function or purpose.”
— #DonellaMeadows #quotes #facilitation #complexity #systems #ethics @ethics

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#systemsthinking
#systemsdynamics
#systemsengineering
#emergence
#complexity

@systemsthinking

Here is the alt-text description for the image: The image is split into two sections. The left section is a portrait of a man in a dark turtleneck sweater. The right section has white text on a black background. The text reads: "The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization contains both designed and emergent structures. The challenge is to find the right balance between the creativity of emergence and the stability of design. - Fritjof Capra AZ QUOTES".

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AMEN MAN

@systemsthinking

#systemsthinking #complexity #policrisis #senge

A nighttime satellite image of the Earth, showing a brightly lit North America, juxtaposed with a quote by Peter Senge about our lack of awareness regarding the complex systems that provide our energy, food, and water.

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Well-designed components are easy to replace. Eventually, they will be replaced by ones that are not so easy to replace.

— Sustrik's Law

#complexity

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#Introduction

I've studied #biology and currently doing an MSc in #Bioinformatics - #ComputationalBiology, both at University of Athens, Greece.

I started my thesis on #genomics (#EvolutionaryGenomics specifically) by means of #computationalbiology.

The dream is to be able to combine #genomics with #math and specifically #complexity, #complexsystems and who knows, maybe even crazier math (#FunctionalAnalsysis I'm looking at you).

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My new piece for @thetransmitter. Why is treating brain dysfunction so ENORMOUSLY challenging?

Because it amounts to controlling a complex system.

Drawing from the history of weather research, I pose the question: Can it even be done? And 14 experts in complex systems chime in. Would love to hear your thoughts as well!

https://www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neuroscience/is-the-brain-uncontrollable-like-the-weather/

#neuroscience #complexity

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• Perpetual Beta 2022 — background on major issues regarding work, learning, & leadership in a connected world

• Perpetual Beta 2024 — the important shifts over the past two years regarding automation and the effects of generative #AI

https://jarche.com/services/books-in-beta/

#PKM #complexity #leadership

Covers of the original perpetual beta series, first published in 2014

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An overdue #introduction 👋 (thanks for the prompt when I switched instances @aussocialadmin )

My name is Scott and I live in Sydney (on Wangal Country in the Inner West). My pronouns are he / him.

I was born and raised in Canada (Alberta, even), and have lived in some great places around the world (Montreal, NYC, Vermont, rural Kenya). Being a Canadian man of a certain age, yes, I play hockey. Even in Australia.

I've been very (not extremely) online since the 90s. First it was rec.music.phish, then fark.com, then the Big Tech Socials.

I strive to behave with compassion and to be more kind than nice. But I also shitpost from time to time because internet.

I'm interested in lots of things and barely maintain a blurred boundary between personal and professional. See hashtags below or on my profile for a more specific list, but I think it's generally encompassed by the concept of #interbeing which I understand as being coined by Thich Nhat Hanh and drawn from Vietnamese and older Buddhist concepts.

Hashtags ftw: #anthropology #anarchism #buddhism #collaboration #collectiveImprovisation #complexity #complexSystems #conviviality #culture #decolonisation #design #designResearch #engagedAnthropology #engagedBuddhism #engagedDesign #ethnography #foresight #futures #hockey #improvisation #JustTransition #music #pluriverse #politicalEcology #protopia #serviceDesign #strategicDesign #systemsTheory #systemsThinking #speculativeEverything

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PSA: I am now available for software-related consulting services again.

Get a software dev with unique experience to solve some of your hardest problems.

Learn more at https://simplexity.quest/pages/about.html

Special discount for projects that tackle climate change or other big problems of our age (details on page linked above).

#consulting #software #softwaredevelopment #modularity #complexity #simplicity #simplexity

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Last week, I presented the work I did with prof. Kuldeep Meel and prof. Arunabha Sen at IJCAI 2023.

We showed the benefits of reducing a problem to a computationally harder problem (yes, you read that right!), by demonstrating how it allows us to solve much larger problem instances.

It was so much fun to finally share this work with so many fantastic researchers at IJCAI! Thank you to all organisers for making this conference possible. I'm also super grateful to the reviewers who gave us great feedback!

Please find our paper, slides, poster, a short video, and our open source tool, gismo, here: www.annalatour.nl/publication/2023-08-01-Solving-the-Identifying-Code-Set-Problem-with-Grouped-Independent-Support

#IJCAI2023 #IJCAI #AcademicMastodon #FOSS #PostdocLife #ConstraintProgramming #BooleanSatisfiability #Complexity #AcademicChatter #OpenSource #OpenSourceSoftware