Some like it simple. For those who do not, there is the International School of Complexity: (Thanks to investigator Andrea Rapisarda for bringing the school to our attention.) Earlier in the year, complexity (and Lipschitz-continuous Hessians) will be the subject of a talk at Imperial College London: Worst-case complexity of nonlinear optimization: where do we stand? […]
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To Simply Examine the Complexity of the Law
Can you, in some simple way, measure how complex a country’s legal system has gotten? This 41-page study perhaps does exactly that, more or less: “Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The United States Code,” Daniel Martin Katz [pictured here] and Michael James Bommarito II, SSRN report #2307352, August 1, 2013. The study comes equipped with […]
Heath Robinson drawings, if you happen to see them
For engineers, designers, and other persons who love, love love complexity, it’s almost always a good time to go look at some drawings by Heath Robinson. However, evidence suggests that his heirs are a bit on the litigious side, a bit demanding perhaps that Internet sites not show Heath Robinson’s wonderful drawings. So all we […]
A helping of Rube Goldberg, please
For engineers, designers, and all other persons who love, love, love complexity, it’s almost always a good time to visit the Rube Goldberg web site. Here’s a panel from one of Rube Goldberg‘s many cartoons: BONUS: Heath Robinson drawings, if you happen to see them