#Development #Analyses
The orders of complexity of websites · Why big web features fail small websites https://ilo.im/164nnv
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#Simplicity #Complexity #WebPlatform #WebTechnology #Websites #WebApps #CMS #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #BigWeb
#Development #Analyses
The orders of complexity of websites · Why big web features fail small websites https://ilo.im/164nnv
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#Simplicity #Complexity #WebPlatform #WebTechnology #Websites #WebApps #CMS #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #BigWeb
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#2 the source of the anger is not that #climatechange is happening, but, first, that "nothing has been done to prevent it", and then there is this pure, helpless rage at the fact that we do not even seem to understand the actual reasons why we are not acting...
it is the #complexity, humans struggle so much with it.
Well-designed components are easy to replace. Eventually, they will be replaced by ones that are not so easy to replace.
— Sustrik's Law
Reboot podcast (18-7-2025): Αλγόριθμοι, ΑΙ και Θεωρία Παιγνίων
>> https://youtu.be/bHPQB1Pc91o
>> https://open.spotify.com/episode/01lIJC491YCPAgAS7cZnkS?si=N0fG1GcZRjS3AQyxh2_jBQ
Στο σημερινό επεισόδιο συζητάμε για δύσκολες έννοιες με απλά λόγια, όπως για το πως η γλώσσα και ο γραπτός λόγος εξυπηρετεί την ανάπτυξη της νόησης.
My #MusicWomenWednesday pick for this week is singer-songwriter Paula Cole with »Mississippi«
The Song explores themes of #SelfDiscovery, #vulnerability, and the #complexity of personal #identity.
I it.
no one of these people predicted that in years time humans will basically all lose their minds and put a demented donald effing trump and a strange car salesmen from the future in charge of the world because they read on the internet that the flouride in the water turns the freaking frogs gay or whatever?
they predicted "a reduction in #complexity", but be fucking honest, guys
you didn't predict shit.
「 Everything’s optimised for developers – and hostile to everyone else.
This isn’t accidental. It’s cultural. We’ve created an industry where complexity is celebrated. Where cleverness is rewarded. Where engineering sophistication is valued more than clarity, usability, or commercial effectiveness.
It’s easier to win an argument by citing SSR compatibility issues than it is to ask, “Why are we using React for a blog?” 」
https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/
Efforts to reduce animal experiments are important and should be pursued. But despite progress in #AI, #organoids, and #InSilico models, I’m not convinced we’re there yet — especially in #neuroscience, where #complexity and systemic #context matter. However, I do think we should stay committed and aim for reduction by all available means. I recently came across this article, which gives a good overview of the current state of the field:
New paper!
How can we detect the presence of communities in networks with higher-order interactions? For instance, by maximizing hypermodularity! Also, this formulation will allow you to leverage tensor spectral methods to do it. Additionally, the paper also argues that the "overfitting" of modularity methods is actually just people applying them where they are not supposed to be used. And, as a byproduct, there is an explanation of why higher-order SVD works so well in classification tasks in machine learning. Oh, the code is available to use in your own projects (link in the first comment). And moreover, the code includes an efficient data structure for higher-order networks that is independent from the community detection method and that you can also use in your own work.
https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/58dr-wktc
An evolving system increases its complexity unless work is done to reduce it.
— Meir Lehman
New paper!
If you want to assess the stability of the synchronization of a system of identical oscillators, you can use the Master Stability Function. However, what do you do in a real-world case, when the elements of the system are not exactly identical? We show how to extend the formalism and use it also when there are many-body interactions, such as in a simplicial complex.
https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/ml7b-r35h
It takes 10 hours on a laptop accurately simulating 5 seconds of a worm wiggling: https://archive.is/0j2Jp (and we still cannot simulate more than 20-30 #quantum particles exactly). Please be humble when the universe is present! #modeling #complexity (through @loriemerson )
All those who couldn't join us in Natal for the International School and Workshop in Complex Networks Beyond Pairwise Interactions can still access all the lectures and talks, courtesy of the International Institute of Physics!
- Fundamental definitions and properties
- Dynamical processes
- Synchronisation
- Control
- Belief propagation
- Community detection
and more!
Please boost to reach the largest possible audience.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqTLz9G2bGs2-ToEsAuUg3u6ZASY1UbAk
The idea that "Every complex ecosystem has parasites" has stuck in my head since I read a now-classic essay about it some 20 years ago. I dug up the essay, and re-discovered that it's from Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
He revisited the idea in a recent blog post:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/24/hermit-kingdom/#simpler-times
It's got some good thoughts to keep in mind as we think about the direction of our country on this #independenceday
JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress
Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.
— Rob Pike
This documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis doesn’t feel nearly 10 years old. “HyperNormalisation wades through the culmination of forces that have driven this culture into mass uncertainty, confusion, spectacle and simulation. Where events keep happening that seem crazy, inexplicable and out of control…”
The 2016 film (duration 2:50!) is available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to72IJzQT5k
(warning: contains some gruesome scenes)
@ondra @dopatwo @signalapp @Mastodon
Always depends on who you are asking.
Also in the future who knows which service/-s will implement Signal protocols into some fediverse compliant software that a lot of people might be using.
Trying to tell people what's gonna happen in the future is like being on thin ice...one's promises may break at any given moment due to an extremely complex world.
Signal got issues, but we seek out the lesser evil...always...