🧬 New paper by Dera et al. in Science Advances proposing a geometric complexity space to map the full morphological diversity of life.

Striking result: life occupies only a tiny, clustered region of all geometrically possible forms, with large heteromorphic regions systematically avoided. The authors argue that this reflects deep physical and developmental constraints shaping evolution.

🌍 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea6945

#Evolution #Complexity #Geometry #Morphology

🧬 New paper by Dera et al. in Science Advances proposing a geometric complexity space to map the full morphological diversity of life.

Striking result: life occupies only a tiny, clustered region of all geometrically possible forms, with large heteromorphic regions systematically avoided. The authors argue that this reflects deep physical and developmental constraints shaping evolution.

🌍 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea6945

#Evolution #Complexity #Geometry #Morphology

Do you have a topic you want to debate, but no one willing to sit with the complexity instead of rushing to conclusions?

I am here for that kind of conversation.

Let us think out loud without turning it into a performance.

#ThoughtfulConversation #DeepThinking #Nuance #Complexity #CriticalThinking
#Ideas #Debate #IntellectualCuriosity #Philosophy #LongTermThinking
#FediMeta #AskFedi #WritersOfFedi #TechCulture #IndieWeb #OpenWeb

Strange Attractors

https://blog.shashanktomar.com/posts/strange-attractors

#HackerNews #Strange #Attractors #Science #Mathematics #ChaosTheory #Complexity

🥊 React vs Backbone in 2025

｢ The Backbone code is brutally honest about what it's doing. An event fires, a handler runs, you build some HTML, you put it in the DOM. It's verbose, sure, but there's no mystery. A junior developer can trace exactly what happens and when. The mental model is straightforward: "when this happens, do this."

The React code hides a lot ｣

https://backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com/

#reactjs #js #complexity

#Introduction
Hi everyone! I’m Carlos Tomas Grahm, an independent mathematician who previously worked on NSF-funded modeling and continuum mechanics research under a Hopkins-affiliated PI.

My current focus is the intersection of mathematical logic, complexity theory, and applied modeling — how rigorous math can clarify or even accelerate discoveries in other sciences. I enjoy discussing ideas that connect theory to real-world systems and would love to meet others exploring similar links.

Looking forward to learning, sharing, and helping translate tricky math into useful models!
#Math #Modeling #Complexity #SciComm #AcademicChatter #NewHere

#Introduction
Hi everyone! I’m Carlos Tomas Grahm, an independent mathematician who previously worked on NSF-funded modeling and continuum mechanics research under a Hopkins-affiliated PI.

My current focus is the intersection of mathematical logic, complexity theory, and applied modeling — how rigorous math can clarify or even accelerate discoveries in other sciences. I enjoy discussing ideas that connect theory to real-world systems and would love to meet others exploring similar links.

Looking forward to learning, sharing, and helping translate tricky math into useful models!
#Math #Modeling #Complexity #SciComm #AcademicChatter #NewHere

#Scientists describe a sense of emptiness where the rich texture of life has drained away.

Colour in #butterflies is not decoration. It evolved over millions of years as a language of #survival helping them attract mates, evade predators and blend into complex forest backdrops. In diverse #ecosystems colour signals #abundance and #complexity. In degraded #landscapes drabness becomes an advantage. The most colourful species are often the first to disappear when native #vegetation is lost,

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
-- Doug Horton

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #DougHorton #Complexity #Simplicity

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #MotorMill #Iowa

🔪 The bloat of edge-case first libraries

https://43081j.com/2025/09/bloat-of-edge-case-libraries

#software #programming #api #libraries #complexity #softwaredevelopment #computing #engineering

🔪 The bloat of edge-case first libraries

https://43081j.com/2025/09/bloat-of-edge-case-libraries

#software #programming #api #libraries #complexity #softwaredevelopment #computing #engineering

｢ Everything’s optimised for developers – and hostile to everyone else.

This isn’t accidental. It’s cultural. We’ve created an industry where complexity is celebrated. Where cleverness is rewarded. Where engineering sophistication is valued more than clarity, usability, or commercial effectiveness.

It’s easier to win an argument by citing SSR compatibility issues than it is to ask, “Why are we using React for a blog?” ｣

https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/

#javascript #bloat #complexity

｢ Everything’s optimised for developers – and hostile to everyone else.

This isn’t accidental. It’s cultural. We’ve created an industry where complexity is celebrated. Where cleverness is rewarded. Where engineering sophistication is valued more than clarity, usability, or commercial effectiveness.

It’s easier to win an argument by citing SSR compatibility issues than it is to ask, “Why are we using React for a blog?” ｣

https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/

#javascript #bloat #complexity

It takes 10 hours on a laptop accurately simulating 5 seconds of a worm wiggling: https://archive.is/0j2Jp (and we still cannot simulate more than 20-30 #quantum particles exactly). Please be humble when the universe is present! #modeling #complexity (through @loriemerson )

It takes 10 hours on a laptop accurately simulating 5 seconds of a worm wiggling: https://archive.is/0j2Jp (and we still cannot simulate more than 20-30 #quantum particles exactly). Please be humble when the universe is present! #modeling #complexity (through @loriemerson )