🌍 Cybernetics Live — Wednesday 22 July 2026, 17:00–19:00 BST (online) Have we entered a New Normal? The physics, the feedbacks, the implications and the responses to our changing climate. Speaker: Tom Harris Using the very latest satellite data, Tom will walk through the physics of climate change: how the planet is out of energy […]
I am going to begin with six selections from Peirce’s Lectures of 1866 where he addresses the roles of signs informing sign relations and their relation to the rules of inference governing inquiries. ⁂ ⁂ ⁂ Our first text comes from Peirce’s Lowell Lectures of 1866, titled “The Logic of Science, or, Induction and Hypothesis”. […]
Adversarial dynamical systems characterize when data-driven learning succeeds or fails Matthew J. Colbrook, Igor Mezić & Alexei Stepanenko Nature Communications 17, Article number: 5397 (2026) | Cite this article Abstract Many systems resist analytical modeling, making data-driven inference of dynamics important. Yet data-driven methods can fail to converge or generalize, leaving open a central question: […]
[I just came across this very moving tribute by coincidence) Sophia Parker Sep 14, 2025 Four life lessons from Jake Chapman, one of the most extraordinary humans I know | by Sophia Parker | Medium
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