Shannon’s entire thing was borrowing metaphors of human activity to use as nouns to stand in for unrelated physical processes and then not differentiating between the two.

I know I’m a libtard but I think it’s bad the U.S. president keeps calling for the killing of specific sitting elected officials who didn’t even commit crimes

AI PRs where the author doesn't have an understanding of the system shift the burden of understanding onto the reviewer.

So now it's on the reviewer to gain an understanding of this area to either confirm or refute. The author saved time at the expense of the reviewer.

Good morning, Toronto!

I never saw enough potential at that point for recovery. It's hard to recover when bad choices are baked in and trust has been severely damaged.

If you're building an internal developer platform, you need to work closely with teams from the start.

highly recommend @ruthmalan.bsky.social's Papers in Systems. We haven't updated the website in a minute, but our monthly virtual meetups have restarted after the summer break:

papersin.systems/about

Suspect many will get a hands-on experience of what the ironies of automation is all about with all this LLM assisted coding.

Missing data is a fucking tragedy. It’s so easy to write a bad survey and get bad data back.

My current reading dips back towards the cognitive science part of my interests. I did not expect to get ambushed by Taylorism in this context, but here I am.

- a question I like to ask is "what are the common ways this goes wrong" or "what are the common misconceptions people have here." Good teachers become experts in the *misconceptions* not just the "right answers". See if you can identify just one for everything you're writing about!

Surprise is so key. Why I share process, I have ideas but it’s only in the dance of sketches, words, and constraints of the form that I see where I’m going. I often experience - I didn’t know that was going to happen! And that should be all our creative work and our learning. No replacement for that

If you told me the most stacked sports team, with billions in funding, found a solution to dramatically improve performance? I’d be sus

If you said the solution was a mic yelling random instructions, I’d call you delusional

If you said the training data was mostly middle school pickup games? Bruh

More generally: beware of approaches that make easy incidents easier but hard incidents harder. The trade-off might still be worth it, but acknowledge the downside risk!

💯 This fallacy deserves a name.

E.g., you can't just deliver an API and then rapidly iterate on it when 10 teams are coupled to the schema.

this is my experience of tech management, btw

Reading about both change management and complex systems in the same month has me thinking we need a book with the title Seeing Like a Corporation: How Certain Schemes to Improve Profitability Have Failed.

Much of the past two years was spent in load-shedding mode to avoid burnout. Finally clawing back from that precipice, got back to reading regularly again about 4 months ago.

Time to try this out, and do a "build up contacts" thing *again*. So, yeah... hello!