tag > Complexity
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Central Pattern Generator are biological neural circuits that produce rhythmic outputs in the absence of rhythmic input. They are the source of the tightly-coupled patterns of neural activity that drive rhythmic and stereotyped motor behaviors like walking, swimming, breathing, or chewing.
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Pro Life Tip: Make all major decisions based on "randomness" (Flipism) - The result will most likely be the same as if you spent years preparing and contemplating choices - just minus the stress.
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Unintended Consequences: In complex systems, cause & effect are often distant in time & space
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What does the square root of minus 1 and fairies have in common?
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Modified genes can distort wild cotton’s interactions with insects (sciencenews)
In Mexico, acquired herbicide resistance and insecticide genes can disrupt cotton’s ecosystem. [...] “These are profoundly interesting effects,” says Norman Ellstrand, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California. “It’s the first case that really suggests that a whole ecosystem can be disrupted” after transgenes enter a wild population.
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Today is the 90th anniversary of Kurt Gödel's 1931 paper, which laid the foundations of theoretical computer science, identifying fundamental limitations of algorithmic theorem proving, computing, AI, logics, and math itself. - Text by Jürgen Schmidhuber
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A Theory Of Change, by Ilya Prigogine - found via a talk by John Thackara
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Intuition and Anticipation in Navigating Complexity with Dave Snowden
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Neural Network of Weakly Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators
- A Neural Network of Weakly Coupled Nonlinear Oscillators with a Global, Time-Dependent Coupling - Theory and Experiment
- A Nanotechnology-Ready Computing Scheme based on a Weakly Coupled Oscillator Network
- Information Processing with Dynamically Coupled Oscillators
- Synchronization in complex oscillator networks and smart grids
- Exotic states in a simple network of nanoelectromechanical oscillators
- Kuramoto model
