Teach Yourself Systems

In a world of abundant intelligence, systems thinking is becoming more important than ever—Teach Yourself Systems distills the essentials into concise lessons and hands-on Python models for engineers, analysts, and product teams.

Collections

Reliability & Maintenance

Simulations of component failure, preventive maintenance and breakdown recovery.

Game Dynamics

Game-theory and gameplay examples showing how rules, chance and matchmaking influence strategy.

Control Systems & Delays

Feedback control examples that contend with time delays on the path to a goal.

Cellular Automata

Simple grid rules that evolve to complex behavior, from chaos to universal computation.

Examples

Fishery Simulation

A fishery simulation of stocks, flows, and feedback loops managing fish populations.

population

quota

Matchmaking Queue

Simulates skill-based matchmaking with adjustable buckets, skill delta and max wait.

queue_len

avg_wait

Game of Life

Conway's Game of Life producing grid frames.

alive

final frame

First-Price vs. Vickrey Auctions

Repeated sealed-bid auctions comparing first-price and Vickrey rules with learning agents.