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Chaos, and what to do about it (2018)

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Re: Chaos, and what to do about it (2018)

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Post by fyp »

sincerely wrote: post #4
fyp wrote: post #3

I thought this was going to be about the popsci book with a similar name: Chaos: Making a New Science https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64582.Chaos

under that standard of "similar", wouldn't basically any book with "Chaos" in the title count?

Original submission title was something like Chaosbook (which is also why there is a now nonsensical comment about Chromebook)

Re: Chaos, and what to do about it (2018)

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Post by babuskov »

npsomaratna wrote: post #6
bArray wrote: post #2

I was really hoping for some crazy clone of a Chromebook, like what a Hackintosh is to a Mac, but with some form of chaos. The book is very interesting though :)

I was hoping for the Warhammer 40k type of chaos. Oh well, one can dream ...

I was hoping to read what's it about here in the comments, without opening the website, but ...

For people like me: It's a book about theory of chaos.

To quote:

> By now, there are also many physics textbooks on "chaos". Most lack depth, and many of them are plain bad, emphasizing pictorial and computer-graphics aspects of dynamics and short changing the student on the theory. That's a pity, as the subject in its beauty and intellectual depth ranks alongside statistical mechanics and quantum field theory, with which it shares many fundamental techniques. The book represents authors' attempt to redress the balance and present the subject as one of the basic cornerstones of the advanced graduate physics curriculum of future

Re: Chaos, and what to do about it (2018)

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Post by james_s_tayler »

babuskov wrote: post #7
npsomaratna wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was hoping for the Warhammer 40k type of chaos. Oh well, one can dream ...

I was hoping to read what's it about here in the comments, without opening the website, but ... For people like me: It's a book about theory of chaos. To quote: > By now, there are also many physics textbooks on "chaos". Most lack depth, and many of them are plain bad, emphasizing pictorial and computer-graphics aspects of dynamics and short changing the student on the theory. That's a pity, as the subject in its bea…

I was hoping it was going to be a Netflix engineering-as-marketing tactic where they do an extremely deep dive on chaos engineering.
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