Tech — Work — Ramblings

by Mike Kalvas

I see you're not using JavaScript (which is awesome!) on one of my pages that uses it to provide a better experience. If you see something not working right, please let me know. My site should work exactly the same without it apart from any exceptions noted here.

I use prism.min.js to do syntax highlighting. It clocks in at 23kb total in size. Since the majority of the writing I do involves coding, I personally find this to be a worthwhile trade off. If you choose to keep this disabled, rest assured, the code examples are still there, they just may have some extra whitespace and obviously no syntax highlighting.

I do no tracking at all and am a zealot about keeping my pages as small as possible. If you're reading a page of mine that transfers more than about 250kb over the wire (including my most gratuitous indulgence — fonts) I've messed up.

So, if you'd like to have a slightly richer experience, consider enabling javascript for my site and I promise your trust won't be misplaced.

202402171507 A stock with one reinforcing loop and one balancing loop

An example of a stock with one reinforcing loop and one balancing loop is population. The reinforcing loop is the birth rate and the balancing loop is mortality. Depending on the relative strengths of these loops, the stock will either increase, decrease, or remain completely unchanged. In reality the rates of these types of things are not constant and so the real system exhibits complex periods of moving in any direction. This is an example of 202402171512 The principle of shifting dominance.¹

Meadows, D. H., & Wright, D. (2011). Thinking in systems: A primer (Nachdr.) (pp. 42). Chelsea Green Pub. ↩