Fractals, chaos, power laws

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1. PaulHouleOct 2022
   I like the treatment in this book

   https://www.amazon.com/Fractals-Chaos-Power-Laws-Infinite/dp...

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2. Jun8Nov 2015
   BTW, the book that was briefly mentioned in the article, Fractals, Chaos, and Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise by Schroeder (http://www.amazon.com/Fractals-Chaos-Power-Laws-Infinite/dp/...) is truly excellent, it is written in the form of short pieces collected into chapters investigating a very wide-ranging set of phenomena, ranging from Brownian Motion to self-similarity, Cantor sets and cellular automata. For $10-$15 on Amazon, it's a great bargain!
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3. 082349872349872Apr 2024
   I'm so square that if I'd tried a pun like that, everyone would've baled.

   Looks very reminiscent[0] of Carnival[1], except not seasonal, no utes[2], and we have very few bogans or muppets[3] so ours are usually urban[4]. Also, confetti[5] instead of food colouring.

   (good that Sister Sanguinista has a way to relax; people-helping jobs, like vet practice, seem to be a real ticket to burnout)

   [0] especially the slogan "where the rams get used and the ewes get rammed"

   [1] some balls are held for charity, and some for fancy dress[6], but holding them for pleasure is the course which we profess.

   [2] boots and roots, yes. Does "pull" originate from pulling someone into your swag?

   [3] coming from an anglophone culture, I was amazed that instead of making "glass pinecones"[7], everyone, despite elevated BAC, piles their dead soldiers in ranks by the recycle bins.

   [4] if you're into Analogue Dance Music, there's nothing quite like doof doof in a medieval guild hall or old town alleyway[8]. The recent shopping malls are not so scenic, and the roman coliseums are historic but are too open for gut-felt acoustics.

   [5] there's a song somewhere on YT by a young dutch lady about how Karneval is wonderful but it still is a little annoying, mornings, to be picking the confetti out of your pubic hair — with enough compressed air, one can send confetti tens of meters into 2nd storey windows. (we colour our faces via airbrush, and use markers only on exposed skin)

   Speaking of exposed skin, some of those blokes might could be risking the worst sunburns of their lives.

   [6] this advert version looks a bit different to your unscripted clip: "are you getting enough?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQBc2dmUiHs

   [7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RShAxvg5MJE

   [8] see Schroeder, Fractals, chaos, power laws : minutes from an infinite paradise (1999) for why.

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4. 082349872349872Mar 2021
   Manfred Schroeder's "Fractals, chaos, power laws" (1991) had a similar statistical distribution (Levy? or something else?) which reminded me very much of software. Basically, the longer something has been observed to remain uncompleted, the further away the expected date of completion becomes. If you have to slip, slip big.
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5. 082349872349872Jul 2020
   Schroeder, Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws, points out there are probability distributions which follow the Lindy effect, and suggests they be used for project planning. ("the longer an engineering task remains unfinished, the longer it will probably take to finish")
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