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sandpile

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Noun1.sandpile - a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in
sandbox, sandpit
plaything, toy - an artifact designed to be played with
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Similarly, the Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld model of sandpile avalanches, shows there is no way of knowing whether the next event would be big or small," said Henrik Jensen of Imperial College London, an expert on complex systems.
Beads experiment suggests avalanches' size can be predicted by Asian News International
In All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Robert Fulghum begins by reminding us, "Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School.
The Ways of Wisdom Learning to Learn and Leaving A Legacy by Saijin Kurash / Women's issues/gender studies community
Their project, entitled Self Organised Criticality, studied the dynamics of sandpiles.
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