Archive for September, 2007

climate change 2007

Friday, September 28th, 2007

Confused about the climate? Not sure what’s happening? Exaggerated fears or impending cataclysm?

A good place to start is a publication by Swiss Re. It is done in a straightforward, down-to-earth, no-bullshit and sane manner. The source to the whole document is given at the bottom.
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scaling laws

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Scaling-law relations characterize an immense number of natural processes, prominently in the form of

  1. scaling-law distributions,
  2. scale-free networks,
  3. cumulative relations of stochastic processes.

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