On systems, et al.

Angelo Pio Rossi — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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graph LR
    %% Stock and Flows
    Furnace[["Heat Inflow"]] --> RoomTemp[("Room Temp")]
    RoomTemp --> Dissipation[["Heat Loss"]]

    %% Feedback Loop elements
    TargetTemp["Target Temp"] --> Discrepancy{"Discrepancy"}
    RoomTemp -->|Sensed Temp| Discrepancy

    %% Delay and Oscillation Trigger
    Discrepancy --> DelayNode["Delay"]
    DelayNode -->|Adjusts| Furnace

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    style Furnace fill:#f0f8ff,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2.5px
    style Dissipation fill:#f0f8ff,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2.5px
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Exposure through time Link to heading

My graduate advisor - back in the days - was a bit of a people management disaster (who knows what for improvement decades can do. I fear little). Yet, I am grateful to him for something he probably did not even ever realise: In fact, while presumably getting curious in the early ’90s about Earth System Science, he seemingly discovered, and included them as additional readings for an undergraduate Sedimentary Geology course, certain books, by authors (the reading list contained also a couple of nice popular books of C. Sagan) such as:

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On systems, et al.

Exposure through time Link to heading