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
Category: Society
The Concept of Asymmetric Democracy
Individuals are the atoms of a society, while families constitute its fundamental building blocks, its DNA. The amount of entropyContinue 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: A Next Generation Global Cyber Weapon
Since its founding in 2005 Ontonix has focused its QCM (Quantitative Complexity Management) technology on protection, problem prevention, ‘robustification’, earlyContinue 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
Stop Pretending that an Economy Can Be Controlled
We reproduce verbatim a very interesting article by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General. All our blogs are original, with very minorContinue Reading
Autonomous Driving. Are we Ready?
In highly complex systems malfunctioning or even bad design may remain invisible for a long time. In highly complex systemsContinue Reading
Prediction: a quick way to look like an idiot.
What is a prediction? A prediction is a statement about what will happen or might happen in the future. ThisContinue Reading
Trump, Brexit and the Failure of Predictive Analytics
The two most important events of this year are the Brexit and the election of the President of the US.Continue Reading
Artificial Intuition 