Perhaps, but I think volcanic eruption followed by system collapse is very compelling. Here is the story I find most convincing from the experts whose works I have read.
It likely started with a volcanic eruption, leading to widespread famine. Those in western Europe who didn't want to starve migrated en masse, as whole families, becoming the sea peoples. The powerful empires struggled to feed their people, and many were destroyed by the forced migration from the sea peoples. Egypt barely survived, but only as a shadow of itself. Many of the others were destroyed by those who had survived on marginal lands and didn't need complex societies to keep themselves fed.
Iron can't be the cause, as iron weapons pre-existed the Bronze Age collapse. I think the evidence is stronger that the collapse forced widespread adoption. The collapse devastated long-distance trade networks, which cut off the supplies of tin needed to make bronze. The scarcity pushed people to rapidly improve iron smelting.
I'm not a professional historian, but I do find the topic interesting. We should try to learn from past disasters to prevent repetition.
See Eric H. Cline's
"1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed";
Thanks for the credit, I appreciate it! Glad it was helpful.
I wouldn't call it a "blog post" though, it's simply an essay. I update my essay whenever I decide it needs updating, and "blog posts" are usually chronological and fixed in time once posted.
Many people use Octave https://octave.org/ which is compatible (generally) with Matlab, supports this simple syntax, and is open source software. Indeed, I've taken at least one class where the instructor asked people use Octave for these kinds of calculations.
That's only true if future improvements are easy to create as past ones, that customers care as much about those improvements, and there are no other differentiators.
For example, many companies do well by selling a less capable but more affordable and available product.
I love having built-in local natural language translation implemented by AI, which Firefox provides. Local models have different properties than remote properties, and natural language translation is a useful thing. AI should be added when it solves a real need, and the risks can be minimized (or at least controlled). The goal shouldn't be to use AI, the goal should be to solve problems for humans.