Slides for week 12, 2020/11/16 to 2020/11/20:
Social contagion
Full episodes:
27a: Threshold models of social contagion (1:18:59)
28a: More insights into social contagion network models
(1:18:42)
Clips for slides are listed on the slides page.
Assignments for this week:
11: Epidemiology
Slides for week 13, 2020/11/16 to 2020/11/17:
Stories
Full episodes:
29a: Stories (1:57:20)
Clips for slides are listed on the slides page.
Assignments for this week:
12: Basic Rocket Science
Slides for week 11, 2020/11/09 to 2020/11/13:
Social contagion
Full episodes:
26a: Social contagion—Why things spread (1:16:31)
27a: Threshold models of social contagion (1:18:59)
Clips for slides are listed on the slides page.
Assignments for this week:
10: Pillows and Blankets
Slides for week 10, 2020/11/02 to 2020/11/06:
Scale-free networks
A start on contagion and PoCS's long demonstrated understanding of why pandemics are the most unpredictable of natural disasters:
Contagion-at-large and biological contagion
Full episodes:
23a: Scale-free networks—Mechanisms and universality (1:11:30)
24a: Contagion—the unpredictability of pandemics (1:17:52)
25a: Modeling pandemics, then on to social contagion (1:15:25)
Clips for slides are listed on the slides page.
Assignments for this week:
08: Intro to Political Science (carried over)
09: Competitive Wine Tasting
Slides for week 9, 2020/10/26 to 2020/10/30:
Random networks
Small-world networks
Full episodes:
All of:
19: Generalized random networks (1:40:13)
Start the following at 58:00:
20a: The structure of generalized random networks (1:15:18)
All of:
21a: Small-world experiments—finding people and balloons (1:15:35)
22a: The theory of finding things in small-world networks (1:14:25)
Clips for slides are listed on the slides page.
Assignments for this week (a challenge!):
08: Intro to Political Science
Slides for week 8, 2020/10/19 to 2020/10/23:
Optimal Supply Networks III: Networks connecting many sources to many sinks
Lognormals and other Bitter Disappointments
Overview of Complex Networks
Properties of Complex Networks
Full episodes:
14i: Where to put your hospitals and coffee shops: Optimal facility allocation (20:05)
15a: How to locate facilities and the centrality of Cincinnati (1:08:28)
16a: Other tails and onward with complex networks (1:17:30)
17a: Properties of complex networks (1:13:33)
Clips for slides are listed on the slides page.
Assignments for this week:
07: Beginner Pottery
08: Intro to Political Science
Slides for week 7, 2020/10/12 to 2020/10/16:Allotaxonometry Moved to PoCS, Vol. 2
Robustness, Fragility, and Scaling
Full episodes:
12: Robustness (1:31:21)
Clips for slides are listed on the slides page.
Related assignment:
06: Paradigms of Human Memory
07: Beginner Pottery
Slides for week 6, 2020/10/05 to 2020/10/09:
Power-law mechanisms 4
Benford's Law
Fundamentals
Full episodes:
09: Mandelbrot's dream of efficient language (37:02)
10: Benford's Law (11:54)
11: Fundamentals (1:57:22)
Clips for slides are listed on the slides page.
Related assignments:
05: Curriculum Unavailable
06: Paradigms of Human Memory
Slides for week 5, 2020/09/28 to 2020/10/02:
Power-law mechanisms 2
Power-law mechanisms 3
Power-law mechanisms 4
Full episodes:
07: Variable transfiguration as a source of power-law size distributions (26:21)
08: The OG rich-get-richer model (1:52:03)
09: Mandelbrot's dream of efficient language (37:02)
Clips for slides are listed on the slides page.
Related assignment:
04: A Fistful of Paintballs
Slides for 2020/09/17:
Power-law mechanisms 1
Full episode:
06: The Ministry of Random Walks (1:33:36)
Clips for slides are listed on the slides page.
Related assignment:
03: Remedial Chaos Theory
Slides for 2020/09/10 and 2020/09/15:
Power-law size distributions and Zipfian measurements
Full episodes:
04: The Statistics of Surprise: Nobody expects the power law size distributions (1:30:45)
and
05: Zipf and his data (10:18)
Clips for slides are listed on the slides page.
Related assignment:
02: Contemporary American Poultry
Slides for 2020/09/03 and 2020/09/08:
Manifesto and Scaling
Full episodes:
02: Manifesto (45:00)
and
03: Allometric Scaling (2:26:03)
Clips for slides are listed on the slides page.
Related assignment:
01: Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design
Slides for 2020/09/01:
Overview
Full episode:
01: Overview
(1:33:18)
Clips for slides are listed on the slides page.
Weekly stories will be posted and organised here.
The stories will pull together clips and episodes and slides.
There will be approximately 2.5 hours of video per week.
When possible, assignments will point to the appropriate stories.
Readings of tarot cards may be involved.