Hannah has grown so much in her talks. She seems nervous in this one, but if you watch her other talks, you see how confident and calm she is. It’s wonderful.
I love Hannah Fry and how she can distill complicated topics and present them in an accessible and interesting way to pretty much any audience. She is a truly remarkable woman.
Law of large numbers seems to be the key here. Randomness is a highly structured phenomenon as it will always play out the probabilities. This is some fascinating research!
As a female scientist myself it saddens me how many of the comments are about her looks and how few are about the topic. Even those that mention her intelligence - that''s not the reason she was on that stage. And if it was me, I know I would learn to hate compliments on my looks when they are taking away from what I'm talking about. And yes, I do realize the irony that this is now one of those comments about her looks.
What if her looks is what makes some people spend a minute with a topic they'd never otherwise approach? Also, don't you better enjoy a nice meal if it's also visually great? ... thinking of which, I should take a break after 3 hrs of youtube...
that last line, hahaha! Its so true that I watch math videos just for Hannah. I was watching numberphile before this and this popped up at the end. I must say she likes burglary research
Her goal is to define the real complexity of human life, of all aspects of it, in the simplest form possible. Likewise, she's trying to explain that just because it is complex does not mean it is impossible to understand. She's giving you a range of information that all apply to the same base subject. People underestimate how truly complex life is, and how broad the subject of "life" can really be. She's just wrapping it up for us who would otherwise never think about it.
Hannah's posh is perfectly authoritative to these social issues and as soon as you finnish all or her vids about the rioting mechanisms in urban contexts are incredible puzzles for behavior solutions with a solid human rights vs security balanced approach
We all think that we make rational decisions and make rational choices. The truth is that the most decisions we make doesn't even enter our conscious awareness. And when we do choose consciously, the result of our choice depends on what experience we had. But where does an experience come from?It comes from environment. "deterministic machines" just feels worse comparing to "free minds that have the whole world open for them" I'm aware enough to know that I'm a dependent part of a larger system.
+cryora I think it's more a study of complexity, which lies between chaos and order. For instance, take the surface of an ice cube in warm water. In the water there's chaos on the molecular scale. In the ice, there's the order of a crystal. In between, with both water and ice, there's complexity. The three regions are distinct from one another.
memyself oh ok, I've never really heard of complexity. I've taken a dynamical systems course since I've watched this vid so I know a bit more about chaos. But all I know about complexity is that it's complicated or complex numbers.
+cryora I'm not very current on dynamical systems, but I think Chaos has achieved the status of a science. Complexity, however, is not yet firmly established as a separate discipline, despite the considerable efforts by the Santa Fe group, which had some pretty bright people exploring the idea. I think these efforts were made in the 1980's and 90's, and it looks like progress has been made since then. You can find much explanation by searching for "complex systems." I don't know how seriously we are to take the word "complex" in the title of this video. Perhaps I was reading too much into it and the word is not to be taken in a rigorous way. It would've been nice if Hannah explained something about all this.
I don't know where your problem is people. The topic is absolutely interesting, she does a very good presentation and it actually is about scientific facts, not just some emotional bullshit like it sometimes happens at Ted.
It all comes down to scale. Anything can be extremely simple OR extremely complex at the same time. It depends on how detailed of a perspective you decide to observe something from.
A generalized understanding of complexity would be so profound in its effect upon humanity that I don't believe we can even begin to guess at it. It would be like asking someone a few decades before the birth of Euler what they thought the impact of widespread availability of computers would be. Things which we would think are impossible or would assume must be magical would become commonplace.
This was way to short. She is so good and interesting it seems she barely got started and she was done. I hope she does more Teds on the subject, but I think any she would wow on what ever idea she spoke of.
Three thoughts: 1. It is interesting how useful analogies are to give us a more dispassionate perspective on those things we have the hardest time viewing objectively (i.e. our own behavior and human behavior in general). 2. Just scrolling through a few pages of these comments it seems like roughly half comment on her sexual attractiveness and the other half seek to belittle either her intelligence or her motives. 3. I find comment sections on web sites increasingly pointless, even harmful.
there are logics (or semiotics if you will) setting the rules for how any living system will interact with externality at every location where such interaction occurs. we lack a theoretical framework, let alone anything that can be applied for most of them with obvious incomplete exceptions including genetics and linguistics
She seems to be connecting things that don't necessarily follow. Humans, especially the bright ones, sometime seek patterns to a fault. Some of the similarities mentioned were, at best, vague.
This comment section upsets me soooo much :( All men, all talking about the facts shes a woman, red head, pretty, whatever. This woman is presenting HER WORK. Think about that for a second.
The question remains then: who would you trust to do the taking and redistributing of resources? How would you know who to trust with a task of such extreme magnitude? Would rich people then also be motivated to buy favors from those who are entrusted to take resources? What stops those who are in the job of taking resources from siphoning off those resources for themselves and their friends?
fair enough- statistics and patterns help, but it's not so simple to just 'apply what we know'. Models can be introduced, but their accuracy will depend on the people applying, analysing and learning from mistakes and that would take decades for every single issue she describes! Good idea, though, someone give her a medal :)
The point of the video is that you don't need to predict the behavior of every individual to be able to predict the behavior of large groups of individuals. Think of the example of weather/individual mollecules in air
1) People are already working on the problem of the root causes of these kinds of things. That's for the sociologists, the psychologists, the activists, the political science folks, etc. If you are someone else who wants to work on the problem from another angle - say the angle of prediction and response - and the tool you are most used to using is mathematical modeling, then this is what you do. It is less about 'why' and more about 'how'. And knowing *how* helps those trying to explain *why*.
Life is as fair as u create it! World is big and it always evolve. You saying JUST TAKE IT... doesnt do anything. Then go, take it! Oh you cant? Ofcourse not, not now, cause if u could you already changed the world. World is never right or wrong, good or bad, its always situation, an act, and just how we(individuals - YOU, ME) manage to deal with that act at that moment, knowing what is the rightest thing to do from your own perspective - that makes difference. The world is how YOU create IT :)
Also there's a difference between knowing something and understanding it. Common sense told us that objects will fall to the ground when dropped. Yet truly understanding it on a mathematical level is how we were able to get to the moon and a million more things. I suppose that could all be considered a waste of time and energy though.
Ergo, psychohistory was only operable on galactic populations, not planetary populations. As out math skills improve, we can extend this to smaller finite sets. Also interesting to see that your elocution has slowed down with experience.
+M3Lucky An important character in Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" novels who had mathematical models that allowed him to predict certain aspects of the future under certain circumstances.
Nicely presented in a crisp manner....i have always felt nature has answers hidden in plain sight in simple things even for the most complex of problems..it seems to me that its in the 'design' of evolution where certain patterns develop & get reused or built upon much like software..maths is one sense to perceive this..but there are others..
She doesn't go that far. Just the math that can be used to predict when and where these events will crop up to stop them before they get out of hand. "Our approach can demonstrate why certain areas of the city were at higher risk than others and help determine which policing strategies may have resulted in a swifter resolution to the unrest." She did mention being able to predict the next stock market crash and similar ideas, which is what this math could potentially help with.
This is true to an extent, we can also learn a lot from bio-mimicry. It's a great way to visualize, gain insight and ideas but should not be taken in with absolute certainty.
And I'd care why? Can't you just admire her personality and enjoy this good TedX video? Anyways, here's my 2 cents for you to live life good- #1 never hope for stuff you can't achieve or won't work hard enough to achieve #2 taking your life's frustrations out in a comment on UA-cam won't get you laid. Alrighty.. :D
Perhaps this is how intuition works. We see strange new things and immediately have a sense of how said strange, new thing might work. It's like pattern seeking maybe. Also, she's so pretty. *-*
This is what I want to make my area of expertise of. Because everything that is happening can be found happening somewhere else, which coincides with my theory of everything and feeds into my nihilism. I always did like redheads, but in the end, what choice do i have.
I agree. There are plenty of idiots around the world who just don't understand what it took for most wealthy people to become successful. Yes, some may be crooks, but the overwhelming majority of successful people deserves it. Instead of hating on the successful, people need to stop being so jealous and weak minded, take responsibility, work hard and take risks. They are not children anymore and need to stop expecting things handed down to them all the time undeservedly.
Alienware7777 just because knowledge interests him more than sex the moment he watched this video, doesnt mean he can't be straight, wtf is wrong with you
hey ! she said 'morphogenesis' twice ! (at roughly 5:40) if that is the same 'morphogenetic' word that got Rupert Shelldrake's TEDx talk censored because of pseudoscience, maybe the science board ought to be consistent, and move this video to that special place where they put Rupert and Graham Hancock's talks. (no i don't really want that, but science & scientists ought to be consistent, so does TED)
Psicohistory, I guess this is the prediction from Asimov! :D But I find interesting the idea of pattern among Rioters, also life is not as Random as it look like it! :)
I know her from some other youtubevideos... I cant really remember the channelname though. Probably from the Royal Institution videos? Can anybody help me out?
The modelling of rioting might be interesting if we want to observe how riots break out and eventually die off. However I think if the authorities start using it as a tool to better manage or contain such events, it might lose its effectiveness. It is possible that once we start to tinker with the variables (where police should be deployed), the model will fail, much like many economic policies
Lots of information to convey in a very short amount of time. Bravo, as usual. Top tip: subscribers, search for her less hurried presentations (even the casual Rock-Paper-Scissors one) and be prepared for cognative stimulation and to fall in love. You're welcome ;)
I am completely in love with Hannah Fry.
I love her more!!
We all are, my friend, we all are
Get in line bub
So am i! She is great
Yay
Hannah Fry's passion for math is contagious, and she really has a gift for explaining complex concepts with clarity.
Hannah has grown so much in her talks. She seems nervous in this one, but if you watch her other talks, you see how confident and calm she is. It’s wonderful.
I love Hannah Fry and how she can distill complicated topics and present them in an accessible and interesting way to pretty much any audience. She is a truly remarkable woman.
“I’m Hannah Fry, the badass”.
Such a good intro
And she's absolutely right about that
hannah fry is best clickbait
Statistically, Fortnite Battle Royale You won't believe number six, Instant Karma, SJW, are a bit more clickbait, but hey.
Law of large numbers seems to be the key here. Randomness is a highly structured phenomenon as it will always play out the probabilities. This is some fascinating research!
As a female scientist myself it saddens me how many of the comments are about her looks and how few are about the topic. Even those that mention her intelligence - that''s not the reason she was on that stage. And if it was me, I know I would learn to hate compliments on my looks when they are taking away from what I'm talking about.
And yes, I do realize the irony that this is now one of those comments about her looks.
Filter it out, for it is just noise. :)
In that case, I'd like to complain about the signal to noise ratio :-D
What if her looks is what makes some people spend a minute with a topic they'd never otherwise approach?
Also, don't you better enjoy a nice meal if it's also visually great? ... thinking of which, I should take a break after 3 hrs of youtube...
someone had to say it. thank you.
that last line, hahaha! Its so true that I watch math videos just for Hannah. I was watching numberphile before this and this popped up at the end. I must say she likes burglary research
I just fell in love with Math.
no you don't
It's maths
canon event
Her goal is to define the real complexity of human life, of all aspects of it, in the simplest form possible. Likewise, she's trying to explain that just because it is complex does not mean it is impossible to understand.
She's giving you a range of information that all apply to the same base subject. People underestimate how truly complex life is, and how broad the subject of "life" can really be.
She's just wrapping it up for us who would otherwise never think about it.
Ah yes, of course. We must all employ guard leopards to deter burglars. Thank you mathematics.
She's just brilliant.
I definitely trained my brain to work like this and it has been very helpful in understanding things. I wish more people would do the same.
She is gorgeous, but mathematics is of incomparable beauty.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Do freckles follow this same pattern that riots and leopard spots do?
Judging by the antics of the Weasley twins, I'd say yes!
Hannah's posh is perfectly authoritative to these social issues and as soon as you finnish all or her vids about the rioting mechanisms in urban contexts are incredible puzzles for behavior solutions with a solid human rights vs security balanced approach
Hannah is the definition of A Beautiful Mind.
I don't think i'd ever get tired of hearing her talk...
She is awesome. Math is awesome. Why have we never met before?
Mellyrian because you're a nobody breh, so are we all here
We all think that we make rational decisions and make rational choices. The truth is that the most decisions we make doesn't even enter our conscious awareness. And when we do choose consciously, the result of our choice depends on what experience we had. But where does an experience come from?It comes from environment.
"deterministic machines" just feels worse comparing to "free minds that have the whole world open for them" I'm aware enough to know that I'm a dependent part of a larger system.
The beauty of science :-) Thx Hannah!
these analogies are really interesting!
Best first 20s on TED I've seen so far.
+1 for 3:25.
+10 for the accent.
So it's basically like the study of Chaos and Game Theory.
+cryora I think it's more a study of complexity, which lies between chaos and order. For instance, take the surface of an ice cube in warm water. In the water there's chaos on the molecular scale. In the ice, there's the order of a crystal. In between, with both water and ice, there's complexity. The three regions are distinct from one another.
memyself oh ok, I've never really heard of complexity. I've taken a dynamical systems course since I've watched this vid so I know a bit more about chaos. But all I know about complexity is that it's complicated or complex numbers.
+cryora I'm not very current on dynamical systems, but I think Chaos has achieved the status of a science. Complexity, however, is not yet firmly established as a separate discipline, despite the considerable efforts by the Santa Fe group, which had some pretty bright people exploring the idea. I think these efforts were made in the 1980's and 90's, and it looks like progress has been made since then. You can find much explanation by searching for "complex systems." I don't know how seriously we are to take the word "complex" in the title of this video. Perhaps I was reading too much into it and the word is not to be taken in a rigorous way. It would've been nice if Hannah explained something about all this.
I don't know where your problem is people. The topic is absolutely interesting, she does a very good presentation and it actually is about scientific facts, not just some emotional bullshit like it sometimes happens at Ted.
It all comes down to scale. Anything can be extremely simple OR extremely complex at the same time. It depends on how detailed of a perspective you decide to observe something from.
A generalized understanding of complexity would be so profound in its effect upon humanity that I don't believe we can even begin to guess at it. It would be like asking someone a few decades before the birth of Euler what they thought the impact of widespread availability of computers would be. Things which we would think are impossible or would assume must be magical would become commonplace.
This was way to short. She is so good and interesting it seems she barely got started and she was done. I hope she does more Teds on the subject, but I think any she would wow on what ever idea she spoke of.
Was expecting a video on biology, but this was good too.
Three thoughts:
1. It is interesting how useful analogies are to give us a more dispassionate perspective on those things we have the hardest time viewing objectively (i.e. our own behavior and human behavior in general).
2. Just scrolling through a few pages of these comments it seems like roughly half comment on her sexual attractiveness and the other half seek to belittle either her intelligence or her motives.
3. I find comment sections on web sites increasingly pointless, even harmful.
there are logics (or semiotics if you will) setting the rules for how any living system will interact with externality at every location where such interaction occurs. we lack a theoretical framework, let alone anything that can be applied for most of them with obvious incomplete exceptions including genetics and linguistics
She seems to be connecting things that don't necessarily follow. Humans, especially the bright ones, sometime seek patterns to a fault. Some of the similarities mentioned were, at best, vague.
If we can predict human behavior in aggregate, how is that we can't predict the next stock market crash?
This comment section upsets me soooo much :( All men, all talking about the facts shes a woman, red head, pretty, whatever. This woman is presenting HER WORK. Think about that for a second.
point is, some things are easy to model and some things need a deeper combination of models.
The question remains then: who would you trust to do the taking and redistributing of resources? How would you know who to trust with a task of such extreme magnitude? Would rich people then also be motivated to buy favors from those who are entrusted to take resources? What stops those who are in the job of taking resources from siphoning off those resources for themselves and their friends?
fair enough- statistics and patterns help, but it's not so simple to just 'apply what we know'. Models can be introduced, but their accuracy will depend on the people applying, analysing and learning from mistakes and that would take decades for every single issue she describes! Good idea, though, someone give her a medal :)
So what should I do, stop buying products? I don't feel used or manipulated.
90% of the comments are about Hannah Fry’s titian beauty.
Including this one.
that's exactly my point, you can't predict (with accuracy) human behavior, you might get lucky once in a while but that's about it
The point of the video is that you don't need to predict the behavior of every individual to be able to predict the behavior of large groups of individuals. Think of the example of weather/individual mollecules in air
1) People are already working on the problem of the root causes of these kinds of things. That's for the sociologists, the psychologists, the activists, the political science folks, etc. If you are someone else who wants to work on the problem from another angle - say the angle of prediction and response - and the tool you are most used to using is mathematical modeling, then this is what you do. It is less about 'why' and more about 'how'. And knowing *how* helps those trying to explain *why*.
I don't Ted talks. But it's Hannah Fry!
Life is as fair as u create it! World is big and it always evolve. You saying JUST TAKE IT... doesnt do anything. Then go, take it! Oh you cant? Ofcourse not, not now, cause if u could you already changed the world. World is never right or wrong, good or bad, its always situation, an act, and just how we(individuals - YOU, ME) manage to deal with that act at that moment, knowing what is the rightest thing to do from your own perspective - that makes difference. The world is how YOU create IT :)
Brilliant arguments by analogy!
Great video. Interesting approach. Thx!
Planes do sometimes fall out of the sky (for a variety of reasons. Two of them being: Wind sheer and Bird Strike!)
I m flattered. thk u.
We are getting closer. Someday Hari Seldon will be among us.
i did a paper and it's got sums in it. maths is fun!
She talks so fast that my heart began to race just listening...
Also there's a difference between knowing something and understanding it.
Common sense told us that objects will fall to the ground when dropped. Yet truly understanding it on a mathematical level is how we were able to get to the moon and a million more things. I suppose that could all be considered a waste of time and energy though.
Its a good one but the headline is misleading in my opinion.
I love her voice :-)
isnt it just correlation...I dont understand how the leopard spots and hot spots are directly connected...
Ergo, psychohistory was only operable on galactic populations, not planetary populations. As out math skills improve, we can extend this to smaller finite sets. Also interesting to see that your elocution has slowed down with experience.
very very good, opened my eyes
Hari Seldon
Geoff Knott wat
+M3Lucky An important character in Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" novels who had mathematical models that allowed him to predict certain aspects of the future under certain circumstances.
^ this
That's a good reference right there
Nicely presented in a crisp manner....i have always felt nature has answers hidden in plain sight in simple things even for the most complex of problems..it seems to me that its in the 'design' of evolution where certain patterns develop & get reused or built upon much like software..maths is one sense to perceive this..but there are others..
Too many to calculate but too few to treat as a gas.
1.British accent
2.Redhead/ginger head
3.Beautiful
4.Geeky.
SO MUCH WIN
As always, there's a corollary question : whose hands will it be in ?
If these tools were available for dictators, well…
Mehdi Husain , inequality is the virus she's helping to punish the victims
LOL all governments are fronts dictators.
She doesn't go that far. Just the math that can be used to predict when and where these events will crop up to stop them before they get out of hand.
"Our approach can demonstrate why certain areas of the city were at higher risk than others and help determine which policing strategies may have resulted in a swifter resolution to the unrest."
She did mention being able to predict the next stock market crash and similar ideas, which is what this math could potentially help with.
My ideal woman - beautiful, redhead, maths expert, Monopoly fan! Etc.
I love her personality
This is true to an extent, we can also learn a lot from bio-mimicry.
It's a great way to visualize, gain insight and ideas but should not be taken in with absolute certainty.
This is the first time I've seen her noticeably nervous.
Great person and great voice :)
Agree 100% and it is not complex, however, the flaw is the human beings who fails to execute accordingly.
And I'd care why? Can't you just admire her personality and enjoy this good TedX video?
Anyways, here's my 2 cents for you to live life good-
#1 never hope for stuff you can't achieve or won't work hard enough to achieve
#2 taking your life's frustrations out in a comment on UA-cam won't get you laid.
Alrighty.. :D
Perhaps this is how intuition works. We see strange new things and immediately have a sense of how said strange, new thing might work. It's like pattern seeking maybe.
Also, she's so pretty. *-*
A slide of Dave Lister holding a 4 pack of lager would've got a free laugh out of a British audience.
This is what I want to make my area of expertise of. Because everything that is happening can be found happening somewhere else, which coincides with my theory of everything and feeds into my nihilism. I always did like redheads, but in the end, what choice do i have.
Mostly useless information. The problem remains but the feeling of approaching a solution makes us happy..
Interesting top-down approach, though looks to me that the bottom-up would be more sustainable.
Pretty and brilliant ...
weather prediction is usually less than 50% accurate. You need a better yardstick
Awesome!!! Nice Theory.,.,., I hope we can make more accurate model of human behaviour..,,,.,
I agree. There are plenty of idiots around the world who just don't understand what it took for most wealthy people to become successful. Yes, some may be crooks, but the overwhelming majority of successful people deserves it.
Instead of hating on the successful, people need to stop being so jealous and weak minded, take responsibility, work hard and take risks. They are not children anymore and need to stop expecting things handed down to them all the time undeservedly.
Especially for dummies. Hannah, she's gorgeous. That's what matters.
9:00 trifecta love it
She's really pretty
I was so interested in what she was saying I didn't take any notice of her face despite being male and straight.
Alienware7777 just because knowledge interests him more than sex the moment he watched this video, doesnt mean he can't be straight, wtf is wrong with you
Reina Aqua lol chill the fuck out
Retinend lol get the fuck out
brostepisthebest hah surrrre
Amazing talk
So nice and cool . Thanks
10:00 "Thank you!" and whoosh, she's gone. :)
hey ! she said 'morphogenesis' twice ! (at roughly 5:40)
if that is the same 'morphogenetic' word that got Rupert Shelldrake's TEDx talk censored because of pseudoscience, maybe the science board ought to be consistent, and move this video to that special place where they put Rupert and Graham Hancock's talks.
(no i don't really want that, but science & scientists ought to be consistent, so does TED)
Great speech
Life is as complicated as each one of us wants it to be!
Beautiful, brilliant, ginger.
She might have no soul, but I would marry her.
what do mean she might have no soul, she s an angel .
Psicohistory, I guess this is the prediction from Asimov! :D
But I find interesting the idea of pattern among Rioters, also life is not as Random as it look like it! :)
Now we have a thinker!
2:56 And algoritms?
I know her from some other youtubevideos... I cant really remember the channelname though. Probably from the Royal Institution videos? Can anybody help me out?
right!
Britlab. Numberphile.
yep numberphile. rock paper and lizards
She has been featured on numberphile but I feel like you're referencing objectivity.
Hari Seldon's psychohistory beginnings! :)
Is this agent based modeling?
What if reality is a multiverse that follows the rules of Pascal's triangle, which is both random (in a pure mathematical sense) AND deterministic?
This is a fantastic speech (and not just because the speaker is attractive).
The modelling of rioting might be interesting if we want to observe how riots break out and eventually die off. However I think if the authorities start using it as a tool to better manage or contain such events, it might lose its effectiveness. It is possible that once we start to tinker with the variables (where police should be deployed), the model will fail, much like many economic policies
Lots of information to convey in a very short amount of time. Bravo, as usual. Top tip: subscribers, search for her less hurried presentations (even the casual Rock-Paper-Scissors one) and be prepared for cognative stimulation and to fall in love. You're welcome ;)
Great talk on ted as usual :)
brilliant