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Caleb
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Oct 24, 2021 • 30 tweets • 4 min read
Saw Dune

Quite enjoyed it (although chances were maybe slim that I wouldn't).

Didn't have many expectations any which way.

Has problems as an adaption of the book but a decent enough film.

A lot of comments I could make, but for most people this will be the version to watch. A quick bunch:

Every time the dialogue stepped away from Herbert's it was weaker for it.

His writing is (literally) poetry.
Oct 24, 2021 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Ah yes... the archetypal 'Western man' The Dune 2021 movie couldn't have fucked up Liet Kynes up any more then they did.

They got it completely backwards.

Extremely shallow reading of the source material.

But you know - *hurrah* its woke.
Oct 22, 2021 • 24 tweets • 8 min read
There have been more attempts at making a Dune film than most people are aware of;

even those who know about Jodorowsky.

It’s quite an interesting little piece of history: The original rights to option a Dune film were bought by APJAC around 1971/1972, which was the company of Arthur P. Jacobs (producer of Planet of the Apes) who ‘had the bad taste to die’ before ever consulting with Herbert.
Oct 16, 2021 • 104 tweets • 16 min read
Dune is one of the greatest pieces of science-fiction of all time.

But having spent more than a month pouring through every Frank Herbert interview I could find (timing coincidental) what's awe-striking is how far ahead the writer was and the quality of his insight.

Here's why: What's most impressive about Herbert is his broad interest and understanding of domains - from what you could call 'proto-complexity' & ecology, to politics, semantics, self-sufficiency & even homesteading.

(Considering his books maybe it's no surprise)

See for yourself:
Jun 25, 2021 • 158 tweets • 27 min read
@normonics' Intro to Applied Complexity #ACS101 #SpringA2021 Highlights

Session 12: Perception, Action, and Mind

(Back after a bit of a hiatus - have still been chipping away little by little in the background all the while)

Thread/ On:

How units, especially complex multicellular animals, mainly get around in the world in a macroscopic way.

Issues to do with perception/action and in some sense mind.

1/n
Mar 9, 2021 • 134 tweets • 25 min read
@normonics' Intro to Applied Complexity #ACS101 #SpringA2021 Highlights

Session 11: The Organisation and Dynamics of Living Agents

Thread/ Intuitively much of the real world is alive, whatever that might mean.

The kind of complexity that we observe in living systems is really an order of magnitude (however you might want to measure that) more complex than anything we see in the 'merely' physical world

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Mar 8, 2021 • 58 tweets • 8 min read
@normonics' Intro to Applied Complexity #ACS101 #SpringA2021 Highlights

Session 10: Variety and Entropy

Thread/ To account for increasingly large and complex systems, we must take an ensemble perspective.

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Mar 7, 2021 • 110 tweets • 15 min read
@normonics' Intro to Applied Complexity #ACS101 #SpringA2021 Highlights

Session 9: Guest Lecture
(The awesome) @HarryDCrane on Naïve Probabilism

(Check out researchers.one)

Thread/ (My notes got wiped so I had to redo these)
Mar 5, 2021 • 70 tweets • 11 min read
@normonics' Intro to Applied Complexity #ACS101 #SpringA2021 Highlights

Session 8: Fat Tails and Extremes

thread/ An important feature of systems to pay attention:

What is independent?

What is not independent?

1/n
Mar 4, 2021 • 74 tweets • 11 min read
@normonics' Intro to Applied Complexity #ACS101 #SpringA2021 Highlights

Session 7: Stochastic Processes

thread/ Determinism can only take us so far - whether it's a fundamental "randomness" or epistemological limitation, doesn't really matter, probabilistic processes become necessary to start dealing with systems & thinking about their future paths/trajectories/possible trajectories.

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Mar 3, 2021 • 53 tweets • 9 min read
@normonics' Intro to Applied Complexity #ACS101 #SpringA2021 Highlights

Session 6: Networks and Connectivity

thread/ Networks are the organisation structure that shape the interactions of a system.

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Mar 2, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
At a certain point in time it has to have a paradigm shift or it doesn't work anymore:
Different materials, different, tools, etc. - just different

45/n Something has got to give something has got to be different.

A whale can grow so large compared to elephant because it is in (and has to be in) the ocean.

46/n
Mar 2, 2021 • 54 tweets • 11 min read
@normonics
' Intro to Applied Complexity #ACS101 #SpringA2021 Highlights

Session 5: Fractals and Scaling

(Thank you Benoit B. Mandelbrot)

thread/ Hysteresis is a basic form of memory.

It matters where you come from.

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Mar 1, 2021 • 37 tweets • 5 min read
@normonics' Intro to Applied Complexity #ACS101 #SpringA2021 Highlights

Session 4: Cellular Automata, Self-Organisation, and Pattern Formation

thread/ How do we get Order without a creator?

Self-organisation

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Feb 27, 2021 • 37 tweets • 5 min read
Session 3 @normonics' Intro to Applied Complexity #ACS101 #SpringA2021 Highlights

(with some continuation from session 2)

1/n Ask not 'what is a thing?' but 'what does it do?'

2/n
Feb 26, 2021 • 34 tweets • 6 min read
@normonics' Intro to Applied Complexity #ACS101 #SpringA2021 Highlights

Session 2: Intro to Dynamics

1/n @chrismanfrank & @bavoter appear:

Imparts some wisdom from Dr. Dwanye Beck.

'Diversity is important in emulating natural systems.'

'Pests, weeds, & disease are a sign of a lack of diversity. Nature's way of replacing the diversity that was lost.'

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Feb 25, 2021 • 39 tweets • 5 min read
For the past month or so I've been taking @normonics ACS101 which I can thoroughly recommend.

Seeing as we're about half the way through #ACS101 I thought I give a recap of my notes of some of the highlights so far.

/thread I've being going back through the sessions so far of ACS101 #SpringA2021 in my spare time.

It's remarkable how much more everything clicked that much more the second time around after the time absorbing everything.

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