From McCabe to Essential Complexity, by (not on Mastodon or Bluesky):

https://archive.fo/BsijA

This observation regarding #Labyrinth comes from a trusted long-time friend. I quote it verbatim because I believe it an important insight.

My mother had a surprisingly good take on it: Jareth was exactly the villain Sarah needed him to be, asked him to be. This does not change the fact he is a villain, but it goes a long way to explain the complexity of their relationship.

Mom also said that Labyrinth was one of the very few movies she'd ever seen that portrayed the life of a #teenage #girl in all its #complexity: very adult desires awakening, coexisting briefly with a childhood that's not ready to go yet. And, per Mom, if the movie's themes make you uncomfortable, you are the one with the problem, because you are telling teenage girls an honest portrayal of their existence makes you uncomfortable.

Etwas weiter im Vormittag. Hinter der Wand brüllt der Staubsauger gegen den Fernseher an. Klang eigenen Gähnens abseits des Mikrofons, und der Schreck, der diesem Geräusch folgt. Wolkentanz über fast leeren Straßen. Eine verirrte Wespe schwebt im Fenster des Heimbüros. Augenblicke kurzen Leerlauf zum Umschalten zwischen Themen und Menschen, den dafür erforderlichen Gesichtern und Persönlichkeiten. Suche nach den zugehörigen losen Enden in einem bunten Knäuel. Manchmal dauert es länger als gewünscht. Und manchmal verheddern sich Details unlösbar ineinander. Dann werden selbst einfache Fragen ganz plötzlich komplexer.

#outerworld #home office hours #concrete city #complexity #weather musings

Don't waste your time typing up that long visionary tome; no one's going to read it. Take consolation in the fact that if you give your product enough room to grow itself, in the end it won't resemble anything you wrote about anyway.

— Gina Trapani

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Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

— Gerald Jay, Harold Abelson

Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

— Conway's law

"What if the real doomer scenario is that we pollute the internet and the planet, reorient our economy and leverage ourselves, outsource big chunks of our minds, realign our geopolitics and culture, and fight endlessly over a technology that never comes close to delivering on its grandest promises?"

There are and have been profound questions to ask, and opportunities to be unsquandered. So far...

https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-mass-delusion-event/683909/

The key is to acknowledge from the start that you have no idea how this will grow. When you accept that you don't know everything, you begin to design the system defensively... You should spend most of your time thinking about interfaces rather than implementations.

— Nicholas Zakas

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

— Martin Fowler

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work.

— John Gall

The cool thing about complex systems is how they all relate to each other.

People get excited about neural networks because of their almost magical ability to approximate any function, if you set their weights just right. But there's nothing particularly special about neural networks!

Complex systems are often said to be systems where ‘the whole is greater than the sum of the parts’ & where simple rules can create astonishingly intricate behavior.

“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.” — H. L. Mencken

#KnowledgeByte: #Emergence is a key concept in #Complexity science, and it describes the distinct #Patterns and behaviors that can arise from #ComplexSystems.

It occurs when a complex entity has properties or behaviors that its parts do not have on their own, and emerge only when they interact in a wider whole.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Emergence-In-Complex-Systems-66b312eead1e9b92a05dbd25

#ITByte: #Algorithmic #Complexity is a measure of how efficiently an algorithm performs as the input size grows.

It's a crucial concept in computer science, as it helps us compare different algorithms and predict their performance in real-world scenarios.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Algorithmic-Complexity-621cc78b26d1303d47eefae4

The secret to building large apps is never build large apps. Break your applications into small pieces. Then, assemble those testable, bite-sized pieces into your big application.

— Justin Meyer