This is the place where to find some unstructured ideas and reflections on current issues as seen through a kihbernetic point of view.
- The Real World Model
A couple of weeks ago, Yann LeCun posted his definition of a “world model” as used in AI on Twitter (@ylecun). The post had more than 400 K views, was reposted around 500 times, and got more than 150 comments. One of the comments was mine in which I asked if there is a block… Read more: The Real World Model - Bifurcations in Evolution and Decision-Making
Bifurcation Diagrams A couple of decades ago, while learning about chaos and complexity, I started experimenting with my own bifurcation diagrams using huge spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel. As the base for calculations I used the recurrent formula for the “logistic map”: While plotting the trajectories of “populations” for a changing environmental “pressure” (A) I noticed… Read more: Bifurcations in Evolution and Decision-Making - On Leadership and Management
Last Updated on July 19, 2022 One of Gene Bellinger’s systems thinking archetypes on his Mental Model Musings website is about the difference between Leadership and Management. He provides both a structural view and a dynamical (system) view of the problem. I was so intrigued by this idea that I had to investigate it further.… Read more: On Leadership and Management - The Wisdom of the Commons
Last Updated on October 7, 2022 This is a “Living” Post where I plan to discuss the “Commons” and present examples of this “flat” organizational model, a bottom-up, emergent centuries-old method of organizing communities in the most “natural” way. There is nothing more fulfilling than seeing people convening to resolve an issue that affects them.… Read more: The Wisdom of the Commons - Organizational Change in Time of Crisis?
Last Updated on October 24, 2021 In an interesting document, Managing complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis. A field guide for decision makers inspired by the Cynefin framework created by Dave Snowden and Alessandro Rancati for the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the EU Science Hub, the authors present a “field guide” to “navigate crises… Read more: Organizational Change in Time of Crisis? - The Power of “NO”
Last Updated on July 17, 2022 Warren Buffett says “This 1 Simple Habit Separates Successful People From Everyone Else”: “The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.” It seems more important to know what you DON’T want, than what you DO. And it makes… Read more: The Power of “NO” - Complexity & Points of View
Last Updated on October 9, 2021 Complexity theorists often quote the non-linearity of dynamical complex systems as a reason why we should not bother even try to predict their future states and just “go with the flow”. I find all such suggestions ill-advised. Change Coordinate System Before we give up all attempts to simplify an… Read more: Complexity & Points of View - Ashby and Self-Organization
Last Updated on November 21, 2024 Ashby had a very peculiar relationship with self organizing systems. In his seminal paper “Principles of the self-organizing system” (pgs. 115-117) he writes this: The reason for such a statement is given in another paragraph: So, according to Ashby, a system (machine) can “self” organize (change state or function)… Read more: Ashby and Self-Organization - Managing Complexity with Systems Engineering
Last Updated on October 8, 2021 Most contemporary writings about Complexity will, at some point or another let you know how “hard” systems engineering methods are not good enough for dealing with complex systems and how rigid “command and control” hierarchical structures are “inhumane” and inappropriate when dealing with social systems. This post, is my… Read more: Managing Complexity with Systems Engineering - Untangling Complexity Theory
Last Updated on October 9, 2021 An excellent introductory article for anyone interested in Complexity Theory (CT) is An Introduction to Complexity Theory by Jun Park. Among other things, it provides an insight about its origins which are, I think, as diverse and complex as the theory itself (highlights are mine): Complexity Theory and its… Read more: Untangling Complexity Theory - Useful Talks
Last Updated on October 8, 2022 I recently discovered the “Transcript” feature on Youtube and spent a couple of hours here and there editing the words Google’s AI automatically extracts from the original video. About 90% of the words is correctly identified which is pretty decent. There is no punctuation so you have to go… Read more: Useful Talks - Memetics Replication & Interaction
Last Updated on October 24, 2021 In this post, I propose an operational framework for Memetics by bringing the focus back on genetics where it all started. This will introduce a new paradigm in Memetics, that of the meme cell, which is defined as the vehicle (system) supporting both the replication of memes as well… Read more: Memetics Replication & Interaction - Kihbernetic Tweetbits on Life & EvolutionLife Evolution
- Kihbernetic Tweetbits on Systems & ControlSystems Control *Control is of the controlled*
- Agile Scrum as a Dynamical SystemAnother tidbit from my old notes about the DSM. I think this one may be self-evident:
- Useful QuotationsAll highlights are mine and were not part of the original text On Systems and Observers Louis Hirsch Kauffman – 2014 – Mathematics and the Real Search for the right conceptual match between mathematics and phenomena, physical and computational. Understand that mathematics is distinct from its instances. And yet our understanding of the abstractions is utterly… Read more: Useful Quotations
- The OODA loop and the Dynamical System Model
Last Updated on October 16, 2021 While rummaging through my old notes, I’ve found a document where I make an attempt to understand the OODA loop in the light of my Dynamical Systems Model (DSM). Here it is in case you are interested in this kind of stuff: I started with identifying the problems I… Read more: The OODA loop and the Dynamical System Model