Complexity-Based Early-Warnings in Defaulting Companies
The search for early-warning signs is one of the key issues for decision makers. The advantages of knowing in advanceContinue Reading
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Failed Doomsday, eco-pocalyptic predictions and Extreme Problems
Extreme Problems are very large-scale multi-disciplinary problems, involving thousands or millions of variables and which cannot be solved using conventionalContinue Reading
Measuring the Quality of Data
Before you start to solve a problem (a numerical problem) you should check its conditioning. An ill-conditioned problem will produceContinue Reading
Which 21-st Century Technology is the Most Dangerous?
Which technology is the most dangerous? Which technology is most feared? Is it Artificial Intelligence? Is it nanotechnology? Genetic manipulation?Continue Reading
How To Save Democracy From Itself
Prologue from “Governing a Liquid Society – How to Save Democracy From Itself” In the past the Earth wasContinue Reading
Complexity and Revisiting Anomaly Detection
Wikipedia: “In data mining, anomaly detection (also outlier detection) is the identification of rare items, events or observations which raiseContinue Reading
How to ‘Fix’ Standard Deviations
Standard deviations are a popular and often useful measure of dispersion. To be sure, a standard deviation is merelyContinue Reading
Ryanair, a Fragile Complex Giant.
The laws of systemantics are said to be pseudo-science. Fair enough. A few of these laws are listed below. They apply toContinue Reading
When Will AI become Less Artificial and More Intelligent?
From Wikipedia: “Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence exhibited by machines. In computer science, the field of AI research defines itselfContinue Reading
Why ICT Systems Implode
Remember the recent British Airways IT meltdown? Problems with power supply are believed to have caused the crisis. NoteContinue Reading
Artificial Intuition 