"Thank you for calling Web Dev. How may we complicate things for you?"
The ever-increasing complexity of web development and the ever-increasing list of dependencies we end up including.
https://newslttrs.com/thank-you-for-calling-web-dev-how-may-we-complicate-things-for-you/
#web #webdev #complexity #html #javascript #programming #software #softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering
An evolving system increases its complexity unless work is done to reduce it.
— Meir Lehman
New paper!
If you want to assess the stability of the synchronization of a system of identical oscillators, you can use the Master Stability Function. However, what do you do in a real-world case, when the elements of the system are not exactly identical? We show how to extend the formalism and use it also when there are many-body interactions, such as in a simplicial complex.
https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/ml7b-r35h
#mathematics #physics #science #synchronization #stability #chaos #MSF #simplicialcomplex #complexity #nonlinear #dynamics
Shakespeare: What's in a name?
Computable analysts: Exactly one real number
This chart is fantastic, but probably too small to read here. (Page 9 of the PDF linked initially.)
Couldnt get a clear grip on your interests from your feed, so came here to say this too. Also markets ( #invisibleHand - theory of moral sentiments, and the wealth of nations) , #qualityControl, and #openBSD, I reckon. I'm delving these at the moment and it's super interesting. Also Enterprise Resource Planning software suites (specifically #ERP5 but it might prove too deep for my delving ability) and sometimes #cybernetics (which goes back to #mathematical #complexity and #communicationTheory ).
https://www.adamsmithworks.org/texts
#askMastodon #askMathstodon #math #maths #mathematics #adamSmith #Cicero #Shewart #Deming #Wiener #Shannon #ERP #ADHD
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 )
All those who couldn't join us in Natal for the International School and Workshop in Complex Networks Beyond Pairwise Interactions can still access all the lectures and talks, courtesy of the International Institute of Physics! 😎
- Fundamental definitions and properties
- Dynamical processes
- Synchronisation
- Control
- Belief propagation
- Community detection
and more!
Please boost to reach the largest possible audience.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqTLz9G2bGs2-ToEsAuUg3u6ZASY1UbAk
#mathematics #physics #structure #dynamics #complexity #science #networks #graphs #hypergraphs #school #workshop #conference #natal #riograndedonorte #brazil #UFRN
Ah, the joys of summer! ☀️ While normal folks bask in sunlight or strum guitars, our hero chooses to conquer the Everest of unnecessary complexity: #bootstrapping #Rust with #GCC. 🏔️ Because nothing screams "fun" like turning your passion into a 22-minute snooze fest about the #compiler build process! 🎉
https://fractalfir.github.io/generated_html/cg_gcc_bootstrap.html #Summer #Fun #Complexity #HackerNews #ngated
The idea that "Every complex ecosystem has parasites" has stuck in my head since I read a now-classic essay about it some 20 years ago. I dug up the essay, and re-discovered that it's from Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
He revisited the idea in a recent blog post:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/24/hermit-kingdom/#simpler-times
It's got some good thoughts to keep in mind as we think about the direction of our country on this #independenceday
JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress
About #complexity, #modelling and their relationship to "postmodern" and plural perspectives in science. Applies heavily to the simplistic data-driven #AI approach as well as physics mathematization and reductionism: https://uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1790555/FULLTEXT01.pdf
🚀🤖 Oh joy, ANOTHER deep dive into #AI on microcontrollers! Apparently, you need a PhD in making things painfully complex to understand "operators and kernels" 🧠🔧. Spoiler alert: it's still just fancy #math on tiny chips, folks. 🙄
https://danielmangum.com/posts/ai-microcontrollers-operators-kernels/ #Microcontrollers #Complexity #Operators #Kernels #HackerNews #ngated
🚀🕵️♂️ Well, congratulations, you can now run AI agents *directly* in your browser, because what we really needed was more stuff to slow down Chrome. 🙄🤖 Apparently, #HTML is the new frontier of making things unnecessarily complex, because who doesn't love a good old browser crash? 💥
https://blog.mozilla.ai/wasm-agents-ai-agents-running-in-your-browser/ #AIagents #BrowserCrash #Complexity #TechNews #HackerNews #ngated
Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.
— Rob Pike
This documentary by British filmmaker Adam Curtis doesn’t feel nearly 10 years old. “HyperNormalisation wades through the culmination of forces that have driven this culture into mass uncertainty, confusion, spectacle and simulation. Where events keep happening that seem crazy, inexplicable and out of control…”
The 2016 film (duration 2:50!) is available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to72IJzQT5k
(warning: contains some gruesome scenes)
🚀👨💻 Behold the next messiah of C programming, valiantly reinventing linked lists with "innovative" type-safe generics no one asked for! Who knew unions and typeof could transform C into a whole new world... of excruciating complexity? 🙃🔧
https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/typechecked-generic-c-data-structures/ #CProgramming #TypeSafeGenerics #LinkedLists #Innovation #Complexity #HackerNews #ngated
Ah, the glorious quest for #overengineering continues! 🤖💼 Behold, yet another #C++ project that promises to revolutionize the world by turning expressions into x64 #JIT. Because, clearly, that's what every developer has been anxiously waiting for—more ways to make simple tasks mind-numbingly complex. 🌟
https://github.com/BitFunnel/NativeJIT #programming #complexity #developerhumor #technews #HackerNews #ngated
🚀🤖 Ah, the endless quest to perfect the art of #error #handling in #Rust by creating error enums that are only *slightly* more complex than the Voynich manuscript. 📜🔍 Why bother with straightforward errors when you can have an entire ecosystem of irrelevant variants for your #debugging pleasure? 🤷♂️🔧
https://felix-knorr.net/posts/2025-06-29-rust-error-handling.html #ErrorEnums #Complexity #VoynichManuscript #HackerNews #ngated
