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Why is everything so complicated?

May 17, 2021 By editor

Ever expressed frustration that stuff is unnecessarily complicated? If so, a new paper published in Nature might have an explanation. Apparently, when solving problems, we have a natural inclination to add things. For instance, when asked to make a design symmetrical, people are more likely to do so by adding features, rather than removing them. You can see evidence of this in a range of technical … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Behavioral economics, Complex systems, Decision science Tagged With: complicated, simple, subtraction

Paper in “Handbook of Research Methods in Complexity Science”

February 5, 2018 By editor

My paper on visualizing dynamic networks has just been published in the Handbook of Research Methods in Complexity Science. There's a discount code for those purchasing in the next three months---VIP35. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Complex systems Tagged With: book, research, visualization

On the dynamic structure of complex networks

April 9, 2016 By editor

Emergence published my article on the dynamic structure of complex networks. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Complex systems

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