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Quick look: applications of chaos theory

That would be great.

The list of fields you gave makes me a little nervous, so I should clarify that I'm looking for specific, practical applications that have become widespread and paid off. ApEn is better than nothing, but was outcompeted in every application. Most of the applications of chaos to ecology were retroactive explanations, with an occasional prediction, but almost never a story like "we implemented chaos-derived management in these fisheries and they did better/worse than control fisheries".

The sheer volume of applications that never went anyw... (read more)