Natural Computation and Self-Organization:
The Physics of Information Processing in Complex Systems

Jim Crutchfield
chaos@cse.ucdavis.edu; http://cse.ucdavis.edu/~chaos

Winter 2008
WWW: http://cse.ucdavis.edu/~chaos/courses/ncaso/

Homework 0

Problems:

  1. Find three (3) examples of unpredictability that you encounter directly over the weekend.
  2. For each, be prepared to discuss in class Monday:
    1. Where did you encounter it?
    2. What was your interaction?
    3. Why do you consider it unpredictable?
    4. What effect did its unpredictability have on you?
    5. What aspects would you expect to be able to predict?
    6. How would you model it?
  3. Write a paragraph on each example that summarizes your answers to the above questions.

Textbook Problems: None.

Homework due one week after being assigned.