"So when we see all of the climate impacts of the last few years suddenly appearing, it shouldn’t surprise us. The very rapid warming we are experiencing is pushing us past many thresholds in our human and natural systems. "

#ClimateChange #NonLinear #thresholds

https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/why-are-climate-impacts-escalating

Cortical layering disrupts multi-electrode current steering https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/acdaf7 "Multi-electrode stimulation is not suitable for targeted activation of layers using current steering", but may reduce risk of #seizures by lowering activation #thresholds; brain implant, #visual cortical #prosthesis, #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness

Retiring $\Delta \text{DP}$: New Distribution-Level Metrics for Demographic Parity

Xiaotian Han, Zhimeng Jiang, Hongye Jin, Zirui Liu, Na Zou, Qifan Wang, Xia Hu

Action editor: Varun Kanade.

https://openreview.net/forum?id=LjDFIWWVVa

#demographic #fairness #thresholds

Data-driven predictions of the time remaining until critical global warming thresholds are reached

"Our predictions also suggest that even with substantial greenhouse gas mitigation, there is still a possibility of failing to hold global warming below the 2°C threshold."

Noah Diffenbaugh and Elizabeth Barnes (PNAS) #climate #emissions #GlobalWarming #GlobalHeating #ClimateChange #thresholds #ParisAgreement #COP28 #COP28UAE https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2207183120

Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere #thresholds

Uta Klönne et al (Dec 2022) Nature Climate Change

Considering #cryosphere and warming uncertainties together implies drastically increased risk of threshold crossing in the cryosphere, even under lower-emission pathways, and underscores the need to halve #emissions by 2030 in line with the 1.5°C limit of the #ParisAgreement. #climate #ClimateChange #TippingPoints #EarthSystem https://climateanalytics.org/publications/2023/only-halving-emissions-by-2030-can-minimize-risks-of-crossing-cryosphere-thresholds/

#Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde was an accidental find- lucky me! With powerful insights into the #traps of #culture, #thresholds between #worlds, and the #crossroads of life; this #book is a guide for cultural #change #agents and misfits alike. Full of examples in modern art, literature and politics, this book is also a romp through the world of Trickster characters like #Coyote, #Raven, #Eshu and #Hermes. This book will give you new tools to #think with. #DTN

In our latest publication, Wiebke Schulz is looking at the extent to which children experience #educational disadvantages when their parents separate and finds that "children from lower educational #backgrounds face higher risks of educational failure than children from higher educational backgrounds, especially at lower educational #thresholds". Read the full paper here 👉 https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol47/28/default.htm

"The simulations reinforced our contention that global change #biology needs to abandon the general expectation that system properties allow defining #thresholds as a way to manage #nature under global change. Rather, highly variable responses, even under weak pressures, suggest that ‘safe-operating spaces’ are unlikely to be quantifiable."

Thresholds for #ecological responses to global change do not emerge from empirical data
(Helmut Hillebrand et al, 2020)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1256-9

#COP15

"we summarize 36 meta-analyses measuring more than 4,600 global change impacts on natural communities. We find that #thresholds were rarely #detectable. Instead, #ecological #responses were characterized mostly by progressively increasing magnitude and variance when pressure increased. Thus, environmental concerns might appear overstated if thresholds are taken for the general case but critical transitions associated with transgressing thresholds are not observed"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1256-9

Hear from @garthmullins as he talks about #Thresholds and Necessity Trafficking from #StimulusConnect 16 @CAPUDofficial @CANdrugpolicy @AIDQ_ @CSSDP @Caitlin_Ona @pivotlegal #Criminalization #Legalization #WarOnDrugs

The Sound of Many Funds Rebalancing
(2016) : Chinco, Alexander and Fos, Vyacheslav
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2764941
#complexity #economics #finance #indexing #markets #noise #thresholds #visualisation
#my_bibtex

#FrancisHarris - #Rebstock #Fold | #Thresholds | #MiscMusic | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmXMv9mmTfo

#FrancisHarris - And #Everything Is #One #Thing #After Another | #Thresholds | #MiscMusic | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdcs2xXRVYo

Q: Does more information lead to better decisions?

Q: Does more information lead to better evolution?

Q: What is infomration, and its role in processes? What's too little, what's too much, and how can you tell if or whether the line has been crossed?

#information #decisions #evolution #thresholds

There is a trailer from #Thresholds, thanks to Paul Johannessen:

https://vimeo.com/276417648

I put up some photos from the exhibition of #Thresholds of the Algorithmic (June 2018 Lydgalleriet Bergen): https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/452048/497140

This exciting symposium is taking place in Graz in the beginning of October: "Exploring Formats, Enriching Practice. An {Artistic} Research Event"

https://efep.iem.at/

We're on the panel with #Almat and a report from #Thresholds

2 1/2 days til the opening of '#Thresholds of the #Algorithmic' at #Lydgalleriet Bergen. Most participants have arrived and started setting up. Friendly atmosphere, nice city 🏁

(if only Norway wasn't that expensive when you exchange from EUR :-O )