{"id":756,"date":"2010-11-14T17:46:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T17:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/2010\/11\/14\/complexity-101\/"},"modified":"2010-11-14T17:52:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T17:52:03","slug":"complexity-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/2010\/11\/14\/complexity-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Complexity 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week after Monday\u2019s lecture I had a great chat with Seth Bullock and Jason Noble, the\u00a0 lecturers of the complexity course.\u00a0  They were kind enough to lend me a number of books and suggestions for reading.\u00a0  I\u2019ve been focusing on &#8220;Complexity A Guided Tour&#8221; by Melanie Mitchell, which I\u2019ve been finding a very pleasurable read.  It\u2019s good to see the WWW get a whole section in her introduction as a primary example of a complex system.  She\u2019s been refreshing my thinking on dynamics, chaos, computation, evolution and genetics, and introducing me to some new ideas in information theory.  Next stop: life and evolution in computers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/files\/2010\/11\/antBridge1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"antBridge\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Psychology, I\u2019ve finished reading the relevant sections of Rupert Brown\u2019s book on group processes, and am going to focus on research methods in social psychology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week after Monday\u2019s lecture I had a great chat with Seth Bullock and Jason Noble, the\u00a0 lecturers of the complexity course.\u00a0 They were kind enough to lend me a number of books and suggestions for reading.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been focusing on &#8220;Complexity A Guided Tour&#8221; by Melanie Mitchell, which I\u2019ve been finding a very pleasurable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}