Important analysis by @zeynep. This pandemic is nonlinear and stochastic. It’s about clusters and “super-spreading”—extreme events that make averages misleading.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/k-overlooked-variable-driving-pandemic/616548/ …
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Replying to @JamesGleick
Do you want to guess the name of the first book I read that talked about nonlinear dynamics and their implications?

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Replying to @zeynep @JamesGleick
Chaos was such a great book
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Got me into systems theory and complexity theory.
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The Information is amazing. Among other highlights, it's the single best explanation of entropy for regularish audiences that I have ever found, and it's the one I send to people to explain the concept. :-D
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Are you kidding? I'll run out of space if I respond with my own 














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