resilienceSci on Twitter- resilienceSci: RT @DianeOrihel: Reason triumphs, sometimes: #ELA Lake 227 was fertilized with #phosphorus this week, so this 44-year experiment continues!… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @DianeOrihel: On May 7, scientists called on #DFO and #EC to reverse its decision to end world's longest #eutrophication exp't http://t.… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: ESPA funded postdoctoral position for SRC lead project on poverty alleviation & coastal ecosystem services http://t.co/g60LUkWAV2 May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: @MichaelSchoon1 I put the "good" in quotes - but gave some criteria that could be used to define good May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: @MichaelSchoon1: indeed, that is a critical question and is being discussed during the panel May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @MichaelSchoon1: @vgalaz @sthlmresilience @FredrikMoberg @resilienceSci @gustafr good for whom? May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @sthlmresilience: So Prof Peterson says criteria for a good Anthropocene is that it is: Fair, Prosperous, Sustainable, Resilient and fun May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: RT @vgalaz: Abt to kick off final global future panel disc @sthlmresilience "Creating a Good Anthropocene?" ft @FredrikMoberg @resilienceSc… May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: @ideas4sust @JamilaHaider Here us the link to paper http://t.co/KE174yxhae in Revue d’ethnoécologie (paper is in English) May 24, 2013
- resilienceSci: @drk75 Sounds very interesting! Hope you make good progress. May 24, 2013
Tag Archives: Benoit Mandelbrot
Remembering Benoît Mandelbrot
Benoît Mandelbrot the discover/inventor of fractals has died at 85. His work has been hugely influential in areas as diverse as computer graphics, finance and ecology. In computer graphics fractals have been used to produce more realistic landscapes and vegetation, … Continue reading
Economist on fat tails and finance
A special report on the future of finance in The Economist Fallible mathematical models: In Plato’s cave: … although the normal distribution closely matches the real world in the middle of the curve, where most of the gains or losses … Continue reading
Turbulence and Finance: Taleb and Mandelbrot
On PBS’s NewsHour, Paul Solman interviewed Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Benoit Mandelbrot about how strongly coupled systems can produce unpredictable turbulence. They strike very resilience oriented themes – narrow over-optimization leading to a loss of resilience. PAUL SOLMAN: In the … Continue reading
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Tagged Benoit Mandelbrot, chaos, financial crisis, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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