{"id":1931,"date":"2013-02-11T21:36:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T04:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2013-02-11T21:36:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T04:36:03","slug":"complexity-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2013\/02\/11\/complexity-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Complexity Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard about this <a href='http:\/\/www.complexityexplorer.org\/'>Complexity Explorer<\/a> course via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downes.ca\/post\/59936\">Stephen Downes<\/a> and have decided to enrol.<\/p>\n<p>Our experience always involves a lot of complexity which we typically manage by isolating just a few quantities of interest which are related by compactly expressible relationships. I am curious to see whether &#8220;complexity theory&#8221; really proposes general methods for dealing with cases where this is not possible &#8211; or whether it just consists of introducing some particular new ways of extracting simplified models from more complex ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard about this Complexity Explorer course via Stephen Downes and have decided to enrol. Our experience always involves a lot of complexity which we typically manage by isolating just a few quantities of interest which are related by compactly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2013\/02\/11\/complexity-explorer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}