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Student of complex systems failures, resilience engineering, cognitive systems engineering. Will talk your ear off about learning from incidents in software.

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Claim: philosophy is even more important to engineering than to science because the stakes are higher

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@kellogh Philosophy. Ethics is a subset.

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Continually doing work to keep the system up: https://willempennings.nl/balancing-cube/

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New blog post (book review): https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/02/11/book-review-trust-in-numbers/

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They: referring to “the big game”

Me: automatically thinking of

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@thomasfuchs How did they ever get Mark Hamill, Malcolm McDowell and John Rhys-Davies to star in this game???

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In hindsight, foresight is pretty tough to pull off: https://jabberwocking.com/investors-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing/

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@marick @twasink On the topic of central banks, I thought this was pretty funny: https://x.com/CarlHedgren/status/1755697181091099068?s=20

(Is it gauche to post twitter links here?)

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We should bring back cloaks. What a fantastic idea it is to treat a blanket as an article of clothing.

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How likely are you to recommend the Net Promoter Score as a metric?

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New blog post: https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/01/24/negotiability-is-non-negotiable/

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@hazelweakly I think they are related. The adaptive capacity folks talk about "capacity for maneuver", which feels related to flexibility like this.

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The unsung online education revolution: YouTube videos that demonstrate how to do various house maintenance tasks.

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This is a helluva quote from Theodore Porter in his book "Trust in Numbers":

> While, as I urge in part 1, numbers and systems of quantification can be very powerful, the drive to supplant personal judgment by quantitative rules reflects weakness and vulnerability. I interpret it as a response to conditions of distrust attending the absence of a secure and autonomous community.

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This is it, the peak moment of my career. https://groups.google.com/g/tlaplus/c/r-7eP7O_Lf8

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I'm reading Lamport's new book "A Science of Concurrent Programs" and am amused that sometimes he refers to algorithms as being "invented" (e.g., Paxos) and at other times refers to them as being "discovered" (e.g. an N-process mutual exclusion algorithm).

https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/science.pdf

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Also interesting to learn that he considers Oki & Liskov's viewstamped replication to be the same algorithm as Paxos!

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@palvaro His claim is that it was invented independently (at least) twice.

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@palvaro Clearly we need more philosophy of computer science.

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@cleeus @palvaro I like to say that philosophers have the privilege of arguing endlessly over the nature of identity but at the end of the day the programmer has to implement the equals() method.

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If you are ever interested in practicing small talk, I recommend getting a dog. You will get many, many opportunities to strike up conversations with other dog owners on walks. It’s really remarkable.

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Idea for a geeky band name: The Unreasonable Defaults.

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Last post was basically just this:

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"It is much easier after the event to sort the relevant from the irrelevant signals. After the event, of course, a signal is always crystal clear. We can now see what disaster it was signaling since the disaster has occurred, but before the event it is obscure and pregnant with conflicting meanings." – Roberta Wohlstetter

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Root cause: Not knowing a vital piece of information, and not knowing that you didn’t know it, and not knowing that you didn’t know that you didn’t know it, and …

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@stuartmarks Move to strike "should have known" entirely from the English language.

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