Ecosystem Plugins - Wesley's notes

Bridging the interop gap and addressing the long-tail of user needs

A varied ecosystem and terminology. - Nel Ramblings

Habitat's road to release: 05 adopting opensocial - building [at] habitat

This week, Habitat as a platform for organizational data is finally beginning to take shape. We've been working with other great atproto devs in the Communit…

atpotato

creating fun apps, helpful tools, and approachable content for the atproto and bsky ecosystem

Maximum power in evolution, ecology and economics

Ludwig Boltzmann suggested that natural selection was fundamentally a struggle among organisms for available energy. Alfred Lotka argued that organisms that capture and use more energy than their competition will have a selective advantage in the evolutionary process, i.e. the Darwinian notion of evolution was based on a fundamental, generalized energy principle. He extended this general principle from the energetics of a single organism or species to the energetics of entire energy pathways through ecosystems. Howard Odum and Richard Pinkerton, building on Lotka, extended this concept to ‘The maximum power principle’ and applied it to many biological and physical systems including human economies. We examine this history and how these ideas relate to concepts from other disciplines including philosophy. But there has been considerable confusion in understanding and applying these concepts which we attempt to resolve while providing various examples from routine life and discussing some unresolved issues. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Thermodynamics 2.0: Bridging the natural and social sciences (Part 2)’.

atmo.garden

communities on bsky

atmo.garden

communities on bsky