Food, and the creativity between chaos and order

Food, and the creativity between chaos and orderHow to get creative things doneChristian Lemp

Food, and the creativity between chaos and order

University of Michigan – COMPLEX SYSTEMS IS HIRING – Postdoctoral Research Fellow

The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS) at the University of Michigan is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to conduct complex systems research and teach one undergraduate course per semester (two total for the academic year). CSCS is a broadly interdisciplinary center within the College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA), more info here: https://lsa.umich.edu/cscs.  The Fellow will create independent research projects related to their particular field of interest which may include computer science, mathematics, sociology, epidemiology, economics, physics, biology and political science, among others. This position is for one year, beginning August 29, 2022, and may be renewed annually for up to three years. 

COMPLEX SYSTEMS IS HIRING!

Like a Lemon to a Lime, a Lime to a Lemon

Lovely juicy systemic messiness which also sort of explains why you can no longer buy *proper satsumas* in the UK:
“Most of us are trained to calibrate our equipment and to double-check our experimental designs, but how often do we reconcile our concepts?”

Found from this twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1511809497978843137?s=20&t=k14lh8mHbB9-2iycfuAEfA

“Reality has a surprising amount of detail”

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We recently wrote a post
about Maciej Cegłowski’s essay Scott And Scurvy, a fascinating account of how the cure for scurvy was discovered, lost, and then by incredible chance, discovered again. At the time we said that this essay is one of the most interesting things we’ve ever read, and that we hoped to write more about it in the future. It was, we do, and here we go.

In the other post, we talked about what the history of scurvy can teach us about contradictory evidence — stuff that appears to disprove a theory, even though it doesn’t always. In this post, we want to talk about something different: the power of concepts.

First we’re gonna show you how bad it can be if you don’t have concepts you need. Then we’re going to show you how bad it can be if you DO have concepts you DON’T…

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Tools for Thought Rocks: March 2022 – Gordon Brander, Subconscious – YouTube

Tools for Thought Rocks: March 2022 – Gordon Brander, Subconscious

Tools for Thought Rocks: March 2022 – Gordon Brander, Subconscious – YouTube

What does it take to change local systems? | by Collaborate CIC | Apr, 2022 | Collaborate

What does it take to change local systems?Following on from two previous blogs (here and here) about our work in partnership with NPC as evaluation and learning partner to Save the Children’s Early Learning Communities (ELC) programme, in this blog we share key insights from the latest systems change evaluation report. The report summarises systems change learning over the last year from across the four Early Learning Communities: in Bettws, Newport; Feltham, London; Margate and Sheffield.

What does it take to change local systems? | by Collaborate CIC | Apr, 2022 | Collaborate

The Grammar of Systems | Major Projects Association

The Grammar of Systems

The Grammar of Systems | Major Projects Association

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Patrick Hoverstadt

The Grammar of Systems

Provides consultancy mainly in organisation design, strategy, business architecture and organisational change using systems approaches. He has developed a set of methodologies that provide different approaches for: organisational change, performance management, strategic risk, strategy, partnership governance and organisational agility. In his spare time he does a bit of academic work, for Manchester Business School and the OU and is a visiting Research Fellow at Cranfield. Patrick wrote Fractal Organisation published by Wiley, the section on the Viable Systems Model in the OU’s course text Systems Approaches to Managing Change and contributions to a number of other books on management and organisation. Together with his co-author, Lucy Loh, he published Patterns of Strategy with Gower – a book outlining a radically different and systemic approaches to business strategy. Most recently, he has published: The Grammar of Systems – From Order to Chaos and Back.

Bo Burnham: How The World Works – YouTube

Bo Burnham: How The World Works

Bo Burnham: How The World Works – YouTube

Woah, meta. h/t Helena Gallbo

FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 16: The 16th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB2022)

FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 16: The 16th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB2022)20-23 Sep 2022 Cergy-Pontoise (France)

FROM ANIMALS TO ANIMATS 16: The 16th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB2022) – Sciencesconf.org

via Ivo Velitchkov

hardmaru on Twitter: “A Modern Self-Referential Weight Matrix That Learns to Modify Itself “In principle, such neural networks can meta-learn to learn, and meta-meta-learn to meta-learn to learn, and so on, in the sense of recursive self-improvement.”

A Modern Self-Referential Weight Matrix That Learns to Modify Itself“In principle, such neural networks can meta-learn to learn, and meta-meta-learn to meta-learn to learn, and so on, in the sense of recursive self-improvement.”https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05780

(1) hardmaru on Twitter: “A Modern Self-Referential Weight Matrix That Learns to Modify Itself “In principle, such neural networks can meta-learn to learn, and meta-meta-learn to meta-learn to learn, and so on, in the sense of recursive self-improvement.” https://t.co/LnLRJXsoXc https://t.co/npLDP4ybSW” / Twitter

h/t Ivo Velitchkov

Structured systems analysis and design method – Wikipedia

Structured systems analysis and design method

Structured systems analysis and design method – Wikipedia

How Can an Understanding of Living Systems Inform Systems Change? – Anna Birney – YouTube

How Can an Understanding of Living Systems Inform Systems Change? – Anna Birney

How Can an Understanding of Living Systems Inform Systems Change? – Anna Birney – YouTube

System Change: A Guidebook for Adopting Portfolio Approaches | United Nations Development Programme

System Change: A Guidebook for Adopting Portfolio ApproachesMARCH 28, 2022

System Change: A Guidebook for Adopting Portfolio Approaches | United Nations Development Programme

Design for an Individual: Connectionist Approaches to the Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality – Watson et al (2022)

Design for an Individual: Connectionist Approaches to the Evolutionary Transitions in IndividualityRichard A. Watson1*, Michael Levin2,3 and Christopher L. Buckley4

Frontiers | Design for an Individual: Connectionist Approaches to the Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality | Ecology and Evolution

Impact evaluation aided by Systems Thinking: shifting stakeholder mindset – Systems Innovation Geneva Hub, April 19, 2022 5pm UK time

Impact evaluation aided by Systems Thinking: shifting stakeholder mindsetEvent by Si Geneva HubTue, Apr 19, 2022, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM (your local time)OnlineEvent linkhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/84338585810?pwd=N2JFVXNCcXlnOFc4eFJyRXFPZk01UT09

(2) LinkedIn

New Horizons of Systems Science – System Dynamics Society April 20, 11am EDT (free)

New Horizons of Systems ScienceAPRIL 20 @ 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDTVirtual EventFREE2022 Seminar Series – New Horizons of Systems Science – April 20

New Horizons of Systems Science – System Dynamics Society