Slide Set 030: Optimal Supply Networks II: Blood, Water, and the Church of Quarterology
A Truthicide investigation.
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Covered in these episode(s) and clip(s):
Episode 1: The twisted lore of the Church of Quarterology: A Truthicide Investigation. (3:40:40)
Clip 1: Welcome to the Church of Quarterology (16:36)
Clip 2: Quarterology's origins (17:23)
Clip 3: Voting for scientific laws (5:06)
Clip 4: We look at actual data (9:17)
Clip 5: Different and better kinds of linear regression (6:47)
Clip 6: Let's measure some power-law exponents ... What could go wrong? (13:19)
Clip 7: More on regression: linear and RMA (7:28)
Clip 8: It's a disaster (4:03)
Clip 9: Rivers and Hack's law (3:17)
Clip 10: Early (crazy) theories (14:21)
Clip 11: Supply network theory of West et al. (it's wrong) (36:35)
Clip 12: Believe people when they tell you who they are (2:57)
Clip 13: Supply networks recap (3:20)
Clip 14: Real blood networks (2:55)
Clip 15: Four dimensions (lol) (4:43)
Clip 16: Ensuing papers and a book of great confusion (12:36)
Clip 17: Banavar et al.'s theory of impossible elephants (5:20)
Clip 18: Simple geometric story and the specialness of isometric organisms (32:14)
Clip 19: Geometric argument recap (4:12)
Clip 20: River network data (8:04)
Clip 21: The Cabal responds, buzzkilling, more confusion (1:47)
Clip 22: Opinion figure! (4:04)