Chris Kempes

Sep 17, 2024 | aeon.co | Chris Kempes

What makes computation possible? Seeking answers to that question, a hardware engineer from another planet travels to Earth in the 21st century. After descending through our atmosphere, this extraterrestrial explorer heads to one of our planet’s largest data centres, the China Telecom-Inner Mongolia Information Park, 470 kilometres west of Beijing. But computation is not easily discovered in this sprawling mini-city of server farms.

Oct 27, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Serguei Saavedra |José Arroyo |Jose arroyo |Pablo A. Marquet |Chris Kempes

AbstractMetabolic scaling and coexistence theories have been pivotal in mathematizing both the energy expenditures and transformations across individuals and populations. Yet, it is unclear how the sustainability of biodiversity depends on metabolic scaling relationships. Here, we provide a tractable and scalable perspective to study how the possibility for multispecies coexistence (i.e., feasibility) change as a function of the dependence of a population's metabolism on body size.