Frank and Ernest by Thaves for June 10, 2024

I like the section that just says “Books.” It has a certain free-ranging spontaneity to it.

Chaos theory is an interdisciplinary area of scientific study and branch of mathematics. It focuses on underlying patterns and deterministic laws of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. These were once thought to have completely random states of disorder and irregularities. Chaos theory states that within the apparent randomness of chaotic complex systems, there are underlying patterns, interconnection, constant feedback loops, repetition, self-similarity, fractals and self-organization. The butterfly effect, an underlying principle of chaos, describes how a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state (meaning there is sensitive dependence on initial conditions). A metaphor for this behavior is that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can cause a tornado in Texas.

Small differences in initial conditions, such as those due to errors in measurements or due to rounding errors in numerical computation, can yield widely diverging outcomes for such dynamical systems, rendering long-term prediction of their behavior impossible in general. This can happen even though these systems are deterministic, meaning that their future behavior follows a unique evolution and is fully determined by their initial conditions, with no random elements involved. In other words, the deterministic nature of these systems does not make them predictable. This behavior is known as deterministic chaos, or simply chaos. The theory was summarized by Edward Lorenz as:

Chaos: When the present determines the future but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.

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Chaos theory makes me think of Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park.

don’t know much about history

don’t know much biology

don’t know much about a science book

don’t know much about the French I took

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> A metaphor for this behavior is that a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil can cause a tornado in Texas.

But this doesn’t seem to work, regarding the very different numbers of flapping butterflies and tornadoes.

CONTROL never completely defeated KAOS.

Looks more like Applied Chaos (rather than in theory).

Wow… Too much order, we need a little more chaos in our lives!

apple spinoff uses kumquat operating system, k-os

I don’t worry about Kaos and its theory because agents 86 and 99 are on the job.

My philosophy is to read new things once. If I don’t understand them, then read again. If that doesn’t clarify, it simply means my intelligence level is not on a par with the writer’s and I need to find my level.

Nowadays, these comic are about it. Once and done for most. Twice for the odd ones. Age does bring clarity in some things.

As long as we’re being a little mathy, it looks like some order theory needs to be applied to the right side there.

TMI!!

“Everyone must havoc code they can live by.”

If it really IS the chaos theory section, if you go far enough back behind the utter randomness, an organized order will appear out of nowhere

It isn’t worth reading.

Note that the books on Philosophy and Chaos Theory are getting mixed together…!

Hilarious!