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by ismail 7y ago
“These broader applications of cybernetics were an almost unequivocal failure.“ This is incorrect. There are no “cybernetics” department at universities, nor people with this title or role. However the concepts and ideas from cybernetics ha
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by ismail 7y ago
Thanks for this. I used Slackware for many years starting around 95 to about 2000. Last year while moving house found a box of old CD-ROMs, with a copy of Slackware 3!
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by ismail 7y ago
Could you provide more of an explanation and details/resources?
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by ismail 7y ago
I am going to agree with sentiments posted by others. This has nothing to do with bailouts. I have not read the report though having read the article one thing is clear all the solutions mentioned in the article are services provided by Mck
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by ismail 7y ago
I thought I had read this before. Here is the link to the original blog post from the institute that did the research. https://www.santafe.edu/news-center/news/where-how-park-your...
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by ismail 7y ago
Asimov 3 rules as the final policy when making decisions should sort this problem out. This assumes that the rules cannot be changed by the AI.
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by ismail 7y ago
It seems we are splitting hairs here on the definition of "war" and missing the actual message. Since you brought it up again. War (Noun) " - a state of hostility, conflict, or antagonism - a struggle or competition betwe
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by ismail 7y ago
Some people are questioning: “Facebook is the most powerful private entity on the earth right now, far more powerful than most nation states” Op did not clarify his reasoning. Though I have thought about this and here are mine. If strip dow
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by ismail 7y ago
Not op but will take a stab. The comment was in response to: “This is hyperbole at best. Facebook does not have an army” Op was pointing out that power != war with guns “Facebook is the most powerful private entity on the earth right now” T
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by ismail 7y ago
Unsure if you will find anything on “disobedience”. To me it can be broken down to encouraging the following in the culture: 1. Diverse views 2. Confidence to speak 3. candor and honesty 4. agency Having said that there needs to be a mini
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by ismail 7y ago
Yep. I had a long debate with an accountant, regarding what I should primarily manage. Being bootstrapped I mostly manage cash-flow and made the mistake of saying “profit is made up”. That got him real worked up. My point was we derive prof
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by ismail 7y ago
Here is an extensive list i posted previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19835208 I have a much larger set of resources. If others would be keen i could structure and categorize it and post it.
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by ismail 7y ago
Exactly this. Also most information of any complexity has multiple “categories” it could fall into. What you actually want is a network graph of concepts and notes. This will let you see relationships.
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by ismail 7y ago
I had begun to initially post a rebuttal to OP. My rebuttal was going to be. This is different since today one could 1. Figure out people’s political leanings via their data 2. Figure out target networks to influence 3. Plant influencers Ha
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by ismail 7y ago
I can tell you my experience of having witnessed some companies move to “slack”, “Jira” etc. There were multiple similar cases. It went something like this: “We are now ‘agile’ Ok what are all the cool agile dev ops companies using? Aha Jir
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by ismail 7y ago
For someone without experience or the context of manufacturing, could you clarify why we will see a “manufacturing revolution”?
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by ismail 7y ago
Great point. Sometimes I have found that I can be so caught up in the goals or some future desired state that i forget to enjoy the journey.I have to consciously and continuously remind myself of this. Interestingly some believe this focus
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by ismail 7y ago
I have added the link to the good regulator theorem, “Every good regulator of the system must be a model of the system” paper on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20761459
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Every good regulator of a system must be a model of that system (1970) [pdf](pespmc1.vub.ac.be)
92 points by ismail 7y ago|31 comments
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by ismail 7y ago
The question becomes, how much understanding is enough? Do we need AI engineers passing laws or training courses for politicians? Can the AI be treated like a black box [0] and the regulation still be effective? I think in some cases the an
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by ismail 7y ago
I got a lesson the hard-way. Mendeley crashed and refused to start up again. There was a known bug that they had not fixed for months. Almost a year of annotations gone. Even though I could find the PDF on disk I could not get to my annota
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by ismail 7y ago
1. Realise, that you are judging people on what is important to you, and not them. "No reflection, no relevant context, no mirror provided by an intimate knowledge of history or literature ... just nothing." These are things impor
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by ismail 7y ago
I’m curious what do you mean by “mba flavours of the decade metric”? Is that a common term?
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by ismail 7y ago
* below is based on my own personal experience, and journey. some of the comments I have read below are about “what to do” to increase confidence. While these are super useful, they are most likely a bandaid, with a scar that never heals. I
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by ismail 7y ago
Books on my "to read list": https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/31590496-ismail-dhorat... Thought as a system by David Bhom An Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Gerald M. Weinberg
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by ismail 7y ago
Great insight. Soft systems approach understands that all social systems fundamentally contain people, who act within the system. In other words, meaning is created within ourselves (psychology), and within a social context(sociology). SSM
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by ismail 7y ago
It would depend in what scenario you wanted to apply the concepts. I find that the best ROT (return on time) can be had by reading research papers. You need to have an understanding of the terminology or be prepared to slog through it. Ther
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by ismail 7y ago
I Have been learning about various systems theories over the last two years and it is a massive field. Starting of with a general theory of systems all the way to the present. The practical use cases are immense. Complex adaptive systems is
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by ismail 8y ago
Count me in for this, good times. Carting your massive box + monitor To a buddies house and then playing lan games all day!
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by ismail 8y ago
fully agree. People conflate fame with impact. Everyone’s version of impact may be different but having Impact does not necessarily lead to the other. Consider the case of Howard Thurman, not nearly as famous as Martin Luther king Jr[0], or

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