On the Extraordinary Importance of Complexity
Of all physical quantities, energy is probably the most important. Energy expresses the capacity of a body or a systemContinue Reading
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A Bank in a Nutshell
Businesses rely heavily on information and data. Many businesses actually store data. Some businesses use this data to derive statisticsContinue Reading
Politics and Ratings. The Empire Strikes Again.
DBRS, a Canadian rating agency, has recently downgraded Italy to BBB, removing the country’s last ‘A’. In the meantime, Moody’sContinue Reading
Isn’t Everything a ‘Complex System’?
What distinguishes a theory from a conjecture? For example a characteristic constant (G, c, h, K, etc.) or a fundamentalContinue Reading
Complexity – A New Approach to SETI
The SETI – Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence – is an initiative which has the objective of locating intelligent life inContinue Reading
The Principle of Ignorance
The Principle of Ignorance is a ‘corollary’ of the Principle of Fragility, which states: Complexity X Uncertainty = Continue Reading
Oil, Ukraine, Greece, China and Volkswagen. Measuring the Reaction of Global Finance.
Over the past twelve months we’ve had the Ruble crisis, the plummeting oil prices, the Ukraine crisis, the GreekContinue Reading
The F35 – Too Complex To Succeed?
A recent article on the troubles and tribulations of the F 35 fighter claims that: “… this flying supercomputer …..isContinue Reading
Artificial Intuition 