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Petter Holme
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Petter Holme's personal blog at petterhol.me covers science and writing. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-21, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog's post on the golden age of complexity. One commenter cites it with a quote from Gleick's Chaos while asking who matters in chaos theory and how it relates to control theory.
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What Hacker News says?
Who is Mr. Big in the field of Chaos Theory, and isn't Control Theory diametrically opposed to Chaos Theory? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1eUIK9CihA James Gleick, Doyne Farmer, Jim Crutchfield, Ken Wilson, or Leo Kadanoff maybe? https://petterhol.me/2022/08/11/the-golden-age-of-complexity... >J Gleick, 1987. Chaos: Making a New Science. Viking Penguin, New York. The name aside, Gleick’s Chaos is the quintessenti…
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on “The Fundamentals of Control Theory”Submitted 10 Papers of the '10s as a story · 2 points
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HN discussionSubmitted Surviving the Complexity Winter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why the world needs computational social science as a story · 1 points
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