MooPig Percolation Department :: "Fighting Fire with Fire... so to speak..."

In fighting wild fires, fighters use what is called fire suppression. The fire-fighters start a fire at the edge of the "out of control wild fire" which consumes the fuel that would spread the maelstrom. It is a sort of "fire paradox" and metaphor for how to control a Data Explosion.

How Complex Networks Explode with Growth | Quanta Magazine: "...A fresh new understanding of such systems — the way they grow, and how they break — has arisen from the physics of coffee. Researchers usually think of network connectivity as happening in a slow, continuous manner, similar to the way water moves through freshly ground coffee beans, slowly saturating all the granules to become coffee in the container below. However, over the past few years, researchers have discovered that in special cases, connectivity might emerge with a bang, not a whimper, via a phenomenon they have dubbed “explosive percolation.” ..."

"... Courtesy of Raissa D'Souza Clusters grown via explosive percolation... This new understanding of how über-connectivity emerges, which was described earlier this month in the journal Nature Physics, is the first step toward identifying warning signs that may occur when such systems go awry — for example, when power grids begin to fail, or when an infectious disease starts to mushroom into a global pandemic. Explosive percolation may help create effective intervention strategies to control that behavior and, perhaps, avoid catastrophic consequences..."

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https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150714-explosive-percolation-networks/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
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