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The technical implementation aspects of Cybersyn are, honestly, the least interesting parts of it. The logistical, design underpinnings of how ultimately the m
by p_l 3y ago
The technical implementation aspects of Cybersyn are, honestly, the least interesting parts of it.
The logistical, design underpinnings of how ultimately the men behind the curtains got the information to draw on the screen was the real improvement - effectively, it was the real "ugly scripts, notebooks and excel spreadsheets" of today even if the end result is sold to management through fancy looking visualizations that someone has to painstakingly manually edit.
In many ways, some of the ideas behind Cybersyn combine quite well with Toyota production system, except done on much larger scale. And unlike failing nearly by design soviet GosPlan, it incorporated the idea of shortening feedback loops instead of trying to deal with combinatorical explosion of variables at the top.