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Eradicate Human Error Without Limiting IT
Last year, Business Insider posted a list of the 25 worst mistakes in history, including public scandals, failed products and poorly executed acquisitions. While some of these represented scandals...
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Measuring the Complexity of the Dates of Holidays
Some national holidays -- like Fourth of July -- happen on the same day each year. Others, like Thanksgiving, which takes place the fourth Thursday in November, change from year to year. Our math...
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Link to Price Spikes Prompts Banks to Consider Quitting Food Speculation
Financial giant Barclays is considering an end to food speculation, a controversial practice linked to sudden, dangerous spikes in global food prices. Rich Ricci, head of Barclays' corporate and...
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Uncovering the Dangers of Network Security Complexity
As security threats become more sophisticated and as new technologies are being adopted, network security is only becoming more complex and difficult to manage. Renowned security expert Bruce Schneier...
View ArticleVisionary Images: The Lost Fractals of Benoît Mandelbrot
Many people know Benoît Mandelbrot from the computer screensavers of a pre-LCD era. Others have a deeper understanding of his mathematics, the repeating geometries that earned him the sobriquet Father...
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You May Have Been Born to Flock
More than 70,000 people will flood into the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans this Superbowl weekend, while thousands more swarm through the city's French Quarter. From a certain perspective, might...
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Is Innovation Predictable?
Like a lot of fellow geopolitics and technology trend spotters, we have maintained a keen interest in the projections the US National Intelligence Council (NIC) makes public every five years or so....
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We Can’t Understand Our Technology Any More
What if technology is becoming too complicated for humanity to understand? I explore this idea in a recent article in Aeon Magazine: For centuries, humans have been creating ever-more complicated...
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Biologists Find New Rules for Life at the Edge of Chaos
In the space between order and chaos, a zone usually described with the mathematics of impending avalanches and liquifying gases, scientists are finding new rules for life. The post Biologists Find New...
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Measuring the Complexity of the Law
Our legal codes are complicated technologies, growing and becoming more interconnected over time. But how complicated are our laws? In a working paper titled “Measuring the Complexity of the Law: The...
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