drxyzzy

3 ms·

1. 1.▲
   by drxyzzy 8y ago

   Discussion here reminds me of Rule #3 in Richard Cook's classic "How Complex Systems Fail": Catastrophe requires multiple failures – single point failures are not enough. http://web.mit.edu/2.75/resources
2. 2.▲
   by drxyzzy 9y ago

   1. Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation (on edX, from UC Berkeley: https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-mechanics-quantum-computa... ), taught by Umesh Vazirani. Intro to quantum computing that made clear key ideas i
3. 3.▲
   by drxyzzy 10y ago

   I started using SageMathCloud a couple years ago while taking courses from edX and Coursera in physics and data science. I liked it enough that I joined the project as volunteer contributor. At 60+ MOOCs completed, I still use SMC for onlin
4. 4.▲
   by drxyzzy 10y ago

   The internet is a large, evolving cognitive system. Present information flow, riddled as it is with disinformation, faulty reasoning, and category errors, might be comparable to disorganization in the minds of individual creatures during ea
5. 5.▲
   by drxyzzy 10y ago

   eqp-004