“We can observe such an information processing pattern not only in scientific domains but also in fine arts and in natural language conversation. When an artist paints a picture they are not focussing on photographic accuracy, they focus on the artistic message — and use brushstrokes to simplify the reality in a way that is [...]

From Downtime at Computerweekly: As all who read Downtime know, technology tends to be pretty predictable (Moore’s Law still holds), but what people will do with it remains a mystery. Take the latest modelling tool from the University of Warwick’s department of statistics and centre for complexity science (aka the chaos class). They invented this cool bit of technology [...]