On trust, information inequality, and open source technologyThis is the second post in a series about open source. The first one was “Capitalistic corporations don't like diversity”. Trustworthiness will become …
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On consensus and compromise decisionsPositions pro and aganst consensus. Analogy between consensus decisions and ensemble learning.
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Capitalistic corporations don't like diversityNote: this article discusses diversity as a system property, and not workplace diversity as the title might also suggest. I’m currently writing about m…
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What can the state learn from reliability and ML engineering?Focus on fast detection and response instead of trying to avoid failure In a great interview in the Mindscape podcast by Sean Carroll, Niall Ferguson a…
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Design systems to bring about the best in humansIn response to my article “Blockchain is not decentralised”, Garycris wrote: While the developer's are acting in their own best interest, if you buy in…
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Blockchain is not decentralisedI keep hearing an opinion that "Bitcoin (or any cryptocurrency, or blockchain in general) is decentralised". It is presented as a "good" property of cr…
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Realism and infinityIn this post, I want to discuss some of David Deutsch’s positions from “The Beginning of Inifinity”. "The Beginning of Infinity" is a bold, extremely o…
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Analogy between model regularisation and the engineering design processThe regularisation algorithm described in "Variational Auto-Regularized Alignment for Sim-to-Real Control": Simulate inputs Train VAE's decoder on the …
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Study the style of doing science from successes and engineering from failuresFailure avoidance is the essence of engineering
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Should you become a full-stack programmer?Deep technology specialisation becomes both less valuable and more risky
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Programming becomes obsolete quickly. What should we do about it?100% digital nature of programming and big online hostings (Github) makes it suitable for AI learning. Software is also very composable and leverageabl…
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The Reality Group: the ingredients of an excellent team cultureShared purpose, trust, delegation, diversity of thought, transparency, feedback, productive emotional tone, battle-testing
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