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Came here to post Dynamics of Complex Systems. Just the information on renormalization groups and multi-scale behavior makes it worth the time. And it's Free!

I'm well aware.

I don't know about that. You just shouldn't strap more meaning onto it than that it's a survey that gives you a qualitative description of the answers you gave to it -- people have…

I too dislike the right/left classification. It didn't really exist until the French Revolution, and the attempt to stretch it into a universally encompassing political continuum h…

Yet we're posting in a thread relating to a massive replication crisis. The geocentric model of the universe was equally obvious and functional to our ancestors in the context in w…

How large is the preimage of conclusions that would lead to the mathematics of relativity? Is it improbable in light of that? I should also say that physics has a better track reco…

It can work, but for reasons different to our positive scientific understanding, no?

One good heuristic to use when evaluating scientific research is the Lindy Effect. Essentially, the longer a finding has stood without being falsified, the longer you can expect it…

This may be a good time to review "How Complex Systems Fail" http://web.mit.edu/2.75/resources/random/How%20Complex%20Sys...

I think people are (slowly) re-learning the importance of redundancy. Having multiple, competing implementations makes you far less vulnerable to shocks.

You may find this interesting: http://www.necsi.edu/research/multiscale/infotheory

It's a very good book. Just be aware that it is very one-sided in favor of the Bayesian view.